Keystone XL pipeline: US state department floated two-year delay

InsideClimate News: In June of 2010, in the midst of the BP Gulf oil disaster, someone deep in the bowels of the U.S. State Department was considering a two-year delay in the Keystone XL pipeline project, according to documents released last week. Public concerns about the oil industry were peaking, and the $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil sands pipeline, which had looked like a shoo-in at the beginning of 2010, was getting a closer look. At one point, the State Department even asked a lawyer for TransCanada, the Alberta-based......

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