Keystone Pipeline

the TransCanada website dedicated to the Keystone XL Pipeline project, the company is working hard to manage the TransCanada reputation as it relates to this project and the opinion that the public is forming. There is an entire section of the website that reviews the “myths and facts” as they relate to the Keystone XL Project (TransCanada, 2015). This type of reputation management is essential to companies facing controversy. The Keystone XL Pipeline is the key project bringing TransCanada

The Controversial Pipeline The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed pipeline that would run from Hardisty, Alberta to Nederland, Texas. Since this pipeline will cross an international border, the company building it would have to obtain a Presidential Permit from the Department of State. The Keystone XL Pipeline will stretch 1,661 miles and will be 36 inches wide (TransCanada 2012).The southern portion of the pipeline has already been approved; it is the northern portion that is causing controversy

You and a couple of employes are finishing up a pipeline then something goes wrong and it suddenly explodes you and the other employes end up dead. This is a scenario that can happen if we build the Keystone Pipeline. Therefore we should not have the Keystone Pipeline XL built because it will cause environmental issues, citizens will not benefit and the pipeline will go through private and public lands. If we do build the Keystone Pipeline XL it will cause environmental issues. Many environmentalist

argument. One argument made my proponents regarding the Keystone XL pipeline is job creation. Proponents argue that the Keystone XL pipeline will create a total of 9,000 direct jobs and 42,000 indirect jobs. However, of these proposed jobs, only 35 permanent jobs are to be created. Proponents defend this small amount of jobs by stating that this clearly show how efficient the Keystone XL pipeline truly is. Opponents to the Keystone XL pipeline argue that this minuscule amount of jobs is simply not

Keystone XL pipeline route causes controversy! A Nebraska court has signed off on the Keystone XL route bringing the project a step closer! Pipe ready for the keystone XL pipeline project. The pipeline is proposed to go from tar sands in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas, the project has taken so long to happen because environmental groups and Nebraska landowners raised serious concerns.The project is costing up to $8 billion and up to 2 years to construct, the 875 mile keystone

Scott Vales Diane Coleman Chang PS 1 23rd November 2015 Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline On November 6th, 2015, President Barrack Obama announced at a White House press conference that his administration will reject the application to construct the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada. This final decision on the keystone XL pipeline comes just over seven years after Trans Canada first applied for the U.S State Departments approval. Trans Canada, the company behind the $8 billion project, has spent

happen in ones eyes, a potential “gold mine” in the others; the decision of the Keystone XL pipeline. What seems to be a perpetual environmental battle and one of the most politically controversial topics in the past decade. The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed 1,179-mile pipeline running from Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would join an existing pipe. There’s no question the intended pipeline has its pros such as its projected attribution to the American economy and the jobs

The Benefits of the Keystone XL Pipeline The Keystone XL pipeline has been a major controversy for some time now. Mostly due to what land the pipeline runs through. Even though there are those that oppose the pipeline, there are many benefits that could be had with its construction. Short term economic growth is one beneficial gain during the pipelines construction, and possibly lower fuel costs to consumers. The pipeline promises multiple opportunities across a wide variety of job sectors, and

XL Keystone Pipeline Research Paper “In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources, and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy, and peace (Nobel Peace Prize Medalist Maathai 2004).” A Canadian oil company that goes by TransCanada hopes to build an oil pipeline that would extend an enormous 1,200 miles onto an already gargantuan 2,600 mile long pipeline. Keystone XL represents just under a third of the entire Keystone

ways to get the crude oil from Canada despite of Trans-Canadian Corporation’s decision to postpone the Keystone pipeline construction. In the year 2008, there was a significant increase in the import of Canadian crude by about 64% showing that the Keystone project is not of as much importance as it should have been. The big oil companies who originally decided to move crude using Keystone pipeline have now introduced new ways to carry more amount of crude (approx. 1 million barrels a day) across the