Anti-Keystone groups like to argue that blocking the pipeline would choke oilsand development in Alberta, but a much more likely scenario is that the oil industry would simply look for alternative transport means. (canadianbusiness.com)
Vocal critics of oilsands development such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have long been arguing that Washington isn't collecting the money that would serve to clean up a bitumen spill. (canadianbusiness.com)
But it won't, as Keystone's environmentalist opponents hope, curtail future oilsands development; bitumen exports to the U.S. have already soared without the pipeline expansion. (canadianbusiness.com)