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Keystone K Street calculation: Obama tears page from McGuinty’s playbook

Steve Aplin
January 23, 2012

For political reasons, the U.S. president has put the kibosh on TransCanada’s plan to extend the Keystone pipeline from Cushing Oklahoma to Houston. That project would have immediately created 6,500 high-paid, high-skilled construction jobs, along with thousands more spinofff jobs. The employment situation in the U.S. has been persistently bad through Obama’s presidency, and you wonder what tipping point the country is approaching. On one hand there is this serious, …Read the rest of the article