The Obama administration on Friday extended the review period on the Keystone XL pipeline, perhaps pushing back a final decision on the disputed project until after the Nov. 4 congressional elections.Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said the State Department did the right thing in pushing back the review, "given the unprecedented number of comments from the public."
Rachel Wolf, a spokesperson for a group called the All Risk, No Reward Coalition, said that "every day without Keystone XL is a day that we keep high-carbon tar sands in the ground."
What a dope. It's already moving by rail, to refineries equipped for the heavy crude, on the east and left coasts. Bakken light crude is riding the rails to the gulf-coast refineries. Keystone has been rendered irrelevant, as was foreseen at this very site.