State Department approves XL.   I am underwhelmed.   Let's think here, people; State Department focus is on keeping good relations with as many foreign states as possible, not predicting possible environmental disasters.    And as Bobert has noted, State is not where scientific expertise lies.

Further, I have heard that cameras were put in some of the pipelines already laid--and these cameras saw the sky through the pipeline. Not good, to say the least. I'm checking on the source of this story.

Yes, there will be refining jobs.   But some people along the route of XL have already lost their livelihoods through losing their land by eminent domain. And I understand that some Indians in Canada already have a higher incidence of cancer to problems caused by proximity to the oil sands projects.   Is this so?

And anybody counting on jobs due to XL should realize that the construction jobs are temporary--and will overwhelmingly disappear when XL is completed. While the environmental damage caused by laying the line is permanent.

As Bobert also noted, not one drop of this oil will go to the US unless we outbid China etc.   It's all oil for the world market--despite the fact that it's Canadian and US territory which is being ripped up for XL.