Keystone Xl Pipeline Pros And Cons

The Keystone XL is a controversial oil pipeline extension that would travel from Alberta, Canada, to the United States Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL should not be built because of the damage it would cause to the environment. The oil would be found within tar sands that contain bitumen. The process of extracting the crude oil uses a lot of energy and causes a large amount of greenhouse gases. Many citizens, in Canada and the United States, are outraged because it can be detrimental to the surrounding land and wildlife. TransCanada, the company building the oil pipeline, has to receive permission from the United States government to begin construction. If the United States does not have the pipeline built and chooses to not use Canada’s oil, then TransCanada will have the pipeline built elsewhere and exported to other countries. There has been a divide between those in favor of the Keystone XL and those who are not. The Keystone XL would be able to provide the United States with a reliable source of oil, but it would also take the risk of faults in the oil pipeline and ruining parts of America’s resourceful soil. The Keystone XL will cause a negative effect on the environment and damage resourceful land; therefore, the oil pipeline should not be constructed.

Almost 95 million barrels of oil and fuel are produced each day in order to provide energy and fuel to people the world over. A major component of the oil industry is the transportation of oil through various means including oil pipelines. These pipelines are capable of transporting thousands of barrels of oil thousands of miles per day. In the United States one possible pipeline has caused a lot of controversy and discussion on the impact it will have on the United States. The difficulty in deciding if the Keystone XL Pipeline should be built is in whether the possibility of economic growth outweighs the possibility of environmental destruction. In order to make a decision, one must first look into the history of oil pipelines. It is crucial

Thesis Statement: In the U.S, the Keystone XL Pipeline is doing more harm than good.

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 XL would carry heavy crude oil mixture. The tar sands are being mined in a region home to many native people, native groups have organized and protested to stop the expansion of tar sands operations.The company Transcanada say it is going to be beneficial for unemployed citizens saying it will provide around 42,000 jobs over its two year

“The developed of the pipeline estimate 8,000 to 12,000 construction jobs” (Yan). People fail to realize that these jobs are only temporary. Work like this will not last forever. The impact of losing a job is detrimental. Once the pipeline is completed, all those who were employed will lose their jobs and be put back into unemployment. This potentially negatively affects American home life. These temporary jobs are not sufficient for the American economy. While these people are working, they tend to have more money to buy things. When they lose their job, they are no longer be able to afford it. This causes prices to rise due to a number of people buying stuff, but once those people lose their jobs, they will not have enough money and the economy plummets. This is also known as inflation, which is deleterious to our economy. “‘We're not opposed to energy independence. We're not opposed to economic development,’ Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Archambault II said. ‘The problem we have -- and this is a long history of problems that evolved over time -- is where the federal government or corporations take advantage of indigenous lands and indigenous rights.’” (Yan). The government ignores the pleas of protesters and proceed to take land for economic achievement. Although, the Dakota Access Pipeline does not benefit the country in any

The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed 1, 1798 mile pipeline that begins in Hardisty, Canada and runs to Steele City , Nebraska. It is designed to carry up to 830,00 barrels of petroleum per day. The Canadian company TransCanada initially proposed the pipeline in 2005 and applied to the State Department for a construction permit in 2008. There would be 329 miles of pipeline in Canada and 840 miles of pipeline in the United States. Then, once the pipeline reaches Nebraska, it would connect to an existing Keystone pipeline that runs to the Gulf Coast. This pipeline would require Canada and the United States to partner together, and in the end would benefit both countries. Canada is already sending the United States approximately 550,000

“For years, the Keystone pipeline has occupied what I frankly consider an over-inflated role in our political discourse,” said Obama (Article 2, Pg. 2). The Keystone and the Dakota pipeline one of two rejected by government administration. Protest still till this day are being held by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, other Native American tribes, and other supporters, to put a stop to the building of the pipeline which carries crude oil through: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois.

There are basically two sides when it comes to the keystone XL pipeline, those that support it being built and those that agree with President Barrack Obamas decision to not approve its construction. Those that are against the pipeline have many claims to help support their stance on its construction. Their first claim is that the pipeline will be transporting one of the world’s dirtiest fuels, tar sands oil. Environmentalist groups say that pollution from tar sands is much greater than that of conventional oil. For example just in the process of the tar sands oil production alone, the carbon dioxide emissions are three to four times greater than that of regular oil. With the completion of the pipeline it

The Keystone XL methods require more gasses and water to be put in the ground causing immediate toxic fumes to be let out into our environment. The TransCanada company plan has also been dragged into American politics due to it's potential economic gain as well as it's potential job increase which are both good things for our country but then when evaluated further you see each of it's flaws. As for our economy, the Keystone XL would let us obtain billions of dollars from it but in turn it will harm our environment more than conventional pipelines due to it's increased carbon pollution. Pertaining to jobs, during the construction of the 1,179 mile pipeline it will create thousands of jobs but once construction is done it will hold very few permanent jobs, most will be temporary jobs.

One of the reasons why, Environmental activist are trying to halt the building of the keystone pipeline (Denchak). Environmentalist are also trying to halt the pipeline because “One study found that between 2007 and 2010, pipelines moving tar sands oil in Midwestern states spilled three times more per mile than the U.S. national average pipelines carrying conventional crude (Denchak).” Additionally, TransCanada’s original keystone Pipeline System leaked 12 times (Denchak). One incident in North Dakota sent a 60 foot, 21,000-gallon geyser of tar sands oil spewing into the air (Denchak). This shows the pipelines could cause massive environmental

The Keystone XL Pipeline Project has many pros and cons just as any project does, but this project has way bigger cons than most projects this country will face today. “The Keystone XL Pipeline is an environmental crime in progress.” “It’s also been called the most destructive project on the planet.” The major issues with the Keystone XL Pipeline are “the dirty tar sands oil, the water waste, indigenous populations, refining tar sands oil and don’t forget the inevitable; pipeline spills.” And these are just some of the environmental issues, not too mention how building this thing from Canada to Texas; 2,100 miles to be exact, is affecting the people and their land, as stated “this isn’t a little tiny pipeline,

The Keystone XL Pipeline has divided North America because it is an enormous environmental issue. It has divided us due to our opinions. Many Americans see the potential it could bring to our country and economy, but there are several environmental problems to consider and health issues to think about before deciding which side to take. Not only do those factors matter but also how it could affect the lives of many Americans. There are two sides to this issue, to either approve or disapprove the Keystone Pipeline project, and by researching I will form an opinion.

With an increasing global population and ever industrializing society 's, environmental concern is rarely given priority over economic incentive. But what people fail to realize is that our environmental failures, and relative apathy about it set up a plethora of problems for future generations to deal with. One of the most important decisions president Obama will face in the next year will be whether or not to approve the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, a massively sized, and massively controversial oil pipeline that would stretch all the way from Alberta Canada, to American oil refineries along the Gulf Of Mexico. Despite the economic incentive present, the building of the Keystone XL pipeline should not happen because of the

The building of the Keystone Pipeline has become a rallying cry for it proponents as well as the opposition. Although the opposing side are able to agree on little else, I believe each see the importance of the outcome of the debate. I have followed the controversy closely for the six years it has been raging. The facts behind the storm point clearly to the problems associated with the project Building the proposed extension of the Keystone Pipeline would transport product that will place vital natural resources at risk in its transport, damage the environment with the mining process used to extract it, result in increased global warming by furthering our nation’s dependency on fossil fuels, and is not in the best interest of the country.

The two remaining phases including the additional Keystone XL are not complete and have drawn controversy. In 2005, the Keystone Pipeline was first proposed by a company called TransCanada. Subsequently, TransCanada submitted an application to the United States State Department in 2008, inquiring approval to build the pipeline. Commissioned in 2010, TransCanada constructed the first section of the pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Patoka, Illinois (Mathis). After the first section was completed, TransCanada started Phase 2 and 3a of the Keystone pipeline which extended the pipeline from Steele City, Nebraska to Nederland, Texas and eventually it reached its current endpoint in January, 2014. Even though TransCanada has been constructing the Keystone Pipeline for several years, there has not been significant progress. The third phase of the Keystone Pipeline, also known as the Houston Lateral Project, is still under construction and is expected to be completed in early 2016. Ultimately, the Keystone Pipeline’s main controversy comes from the rejected Keystone XL which is a proposed additional pipeline that would be built from Alberta all the way to Nebraska and would be able to carry 830,000 barrels of petroleum in a day (Davenport).