roy wrote:
Tell me where the oil sands from the pipeline go, is that a lie they were going to texas to be refined, and loaded on tankers, and sold overseas? Corporations love any political party they can buy and get what they want and you know that. You want to straighten out the country stop the money given to both parties.
98% of Canada's oil exports go to the U.S. Oct 6, 2020
Canada produces more oil and natural gas than we need to meet energy demand within our country, so the remainder is exported.
Essentially all of Canada's oil and natural gas exports go to one customer: the United States.
What is the Pipeline exactly?
The Keystone Pipeline already exists.
What doesn’t exist fully yet is its proposed expansion, the Keystone XL Pipeline.
The existing Keystone runs from oil sand fields in Alberta, Canada into the U.S., ending in Cushing, Oklahoma.
The 1,700 new miles of pipeline would offer two sections of expansion. First, a southern leg would connect Cushing, Oklahoma, where there is a current bottleneck of oil, with the Gulf Coast of Texas, where oil refineries abound. That leg went into operation in January 2014. Second, the pipeline would include a new section from Alberta to Kansas. It would pass through the Bakken Shale region of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. Here, it will pass through a region where oil extraction is currently booming and take on some of this crude for transport.
The southern leg of the Keystone XL ties into the existing Keystone pipeline that already runs to Canada, bringing up to 700,000 barrels of oil a day to refineries in Texas. At peak capacity, the pipeline will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day. While the pipeline is initially carried U.S. light crude, it is expected to carry more heavy Canadian oil harvested from tar sands over the next year.
How Many Jobs Will the Pipeline Create?
It’s unclear exactly how many jobs the pipeline will create. Some estimates have gone as high as 500,000, which is highly unlikely.
TransCanada’s own evaluation estimates the pipeline would bring 20,000 new jobs to the US.
The State Department released a report in March 2013 stating that the pipeline could (directly or indirectly) create up to 42,000 jobs, including 3,900 construction jobs.
The person really behind the Biden decision:
President Obama refuted that in July 2013
https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/keystone-xl-pipeline/