The U.S. Senate snubs Keystone XL pipleline proposal

The U.S. Senate was four votes shy of approving an amendment that would give the Keystone XL pipeline the go ahead.

According to the CBC the amendment would have overridden the White House’s January rejection of the project that would carry Alberta oil sands crude to refineries along the Texas coast.  President Barack Obama rejected the earlier proposal to give his administration more time to study the pipeline’s route through Nebraska’s environmentally precarious Sandhills region.

TransCanada Corporation who heads the Keystone project said a new route is in the works along with plans to resubmit its application for authorization.

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