Will Keystone Pipeline go ahead no matter who is elected?

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15. Related from the Center for American Progress:

The New Values Voters: Climate Change


Environmental activists gather outside the White House in Washington, Monday, August 22, 2011,
as they continue a civil disobedience campaign against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from
Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

For years, polling analysis on the environment has been grouped with other policy concerns like the economy and national security, rather than with “culture” issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. But when the idea of environmental stewardship and care for the earth is articulated as a moral concern, this takes priority with voters above those traditionally listed culture issues. For their part, faith groups on both sides of the aisle are becoming bolder in their commitment to tackling climate change as a moral issue.

...climate activism has recently been in abundance—from the more than 60 religious leaders putting themselves at risk of arrest in Washington, D.C., at the Keystone XL protest in August 2011 to faith groups kicking off the first-ever nationwide antifracking rally in July 2012.

But as extreme weather continues to dominate headlines, a collective sense of urgency has energized existing and new multifaith contingents who look to both the church and the government for leadership and are unafraid to demand specific action on climate change from Congress and the Obama administration. Many of these groups feature an impressive roster of civil rights, social justice, environmental, and public health-minded faith leaders, and their demands—from preventing pipeline construction and ending Appalachian mountaintop removal, to capping carbon emissions, to dramatically reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency and renewables—are increasingly rooted in climate science.

Fast facts
57 percent of voters in 2010 cited the environment as very important to the congressional elections. This ranked higher than either abortion or same-sex marriage.
47 percent of regular churchgoers say their clergy speak out on the environment, almost always to encourage environmental protection. When presented with the idea of a spiritual obligation to act as good stewards of the environment, three out of four believers were somewhat or strongly convinced.
81 percent of all Americans favor greater legal and regulatory protections for the environment. Strong majorities of each religious group polled said that Earth’s average temperature is getting warmer.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/news/2012/10/02/40301/the-new-values-voters-climate-change/