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[quote user="AgentKid"] The State Department has yet to give final approval and the EPA has made serious efforts to get the State Department to not approve the project, saying their Environment Assessment is seriously flawed. There is considerable inter department arguing and they all have to agree before a proposal is put on Obama's desk for his approval. The current EPA chairperson got their job because the previous chairman resigned because she though Obama was close to approving the deal earlier this year. There are roadblocks to this project being thrown up all over Washington DC. One columnist speculated several weeks ago that given the current dynamic in Washington, Obama is waiting for some overseas issue like N. Korea or Iran to break loose. Then on a Friday afternoon at 4 PM, after most of the press has gone home for the weekend, he can stand at his podium and say, "My fellow Americans, in this time of uncertainty it is important that were have a secure supply of oil and to that end I am approving the Keystone XL project". If the current situation continues it could be several years before we see the pipeline go ahead. To get this thread back on a rail related tack, it would seem in the next five years or so prospects are looking better than ever for crude by rail. Bruce[/quote] Bruce, I don't think that any sort of international combat crisis will bring about the approval of the XL. Obviously it is opposed on a deep and powerful basis.  So no pretext is needed to approve something when there is no desire to approve it.  I am not trying to take the thread off topic. After all, the topic does include pipelines, and the implication that rail transport is preferable to pipelines. I think it is important to point out that there is no choice between rail and pipelines if pipelines are not an option. I have a feeling that the Sierra Club will not be amused by rail doing an end run around pipelines.
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