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Today, the white house stood by the president's commitment to making a decision on the keystone excel pipeline before he leaves office even after a big development in the year's long fight over that hugely controversial $8 billion project to build a massive pipeline to carry 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the alberta oil sands to the texas gulf coast full of carbon intensive oil. transcanada, the company behind the project, yesterday suspended its request for a permit to build the keystone pipeline asking the state department saying suspend your evaluation of the pipeline proposal u...

Today, the white house stood by the president's commitment to making a decision on the keystone excel pipeline before he leaves office even after a big development in the year's long fight over that hugely controversial $8 billion project to build a massive pipeline to carry 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the alberta oil sands to the texas gulf coast full of carbon intensive oil. transcanada, the company behind the project, yesterday suspended its request for a permit to build the keystone pipeline asking the state department saying suspend your evaluation of the pipeline proposal u...

By the president's commitment to making a decision on the keystone excel pipeline before he leaves office even after a big development in the year's long fight over that hugely controversial $8 billion project to build a massive pipeline to carry 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the alberta oil sands to the texas gulf coast full of carbon intensive oil. transcanada, the company behind the project, yesterday suspended its request for a permit to build the keystone pipeline asking the state department saying suspend your evaluation of the pipeline proposal until after the state of nebra...

>> i think it will have a big impact, 2 million comments, that's a lot of people who feel strongly enough to take a stand and fight against the pipeline. and oil industry has millions of dollars to try to sway public opinion and we have millions of people who believe this pipeline proposal, it's a boondoggle, 1,000-mile pipe lean going through farms and ranches to the gulf and the oil doesn't even stay here. most would be shipped overseas, much to china. we get all of the risk. and the oil companies get all of the rewards. i think 2 million comments goes a long way. >> isn't there a lot of pol...

The risks in order to line the pockets of the big oil companies that are extracting this oil and shipping it overseas where they can get a better price from texas. it's a new kind of oil. it's not the kind we're used to. it's a thick gooy type that has to be through pipelines. the first keystone pipeline spilled in the u.s. 14 times just in its first year of operation. >> this is not a dead issue. does it concern you especially with the things that you've noted there had that they are able to re-apply and maybe this will go through? >> i think what's important, as of yesterday the current appl...