the transmountain pipeline is still being built. and, that oil will go out of vancouver, south of victoria and out to china.
canada does not have refinery capacities. that is the actual reason we send everything to texas - for refinement. should you cancel the keystone, that oil coming out of vancouver will not just be crude but will be the heaviest, dirtiest crude you could imagine. that's right past seattle....
so, what do you do?
well, let's be clear - i'm not arguing against cancelling keystone. we've already canceled a few, and intend to cancel them all. so, if you cancel keystone, the next step is to try to get transmountain canceled, too.
but, every political actor in place right now supports the second line, and that's going to be exceedingly difficult. and, look at what you're doing - you're giving the tar sands to china.
i'm expecting something tomorrow that kind of obscures the point. this is some combination of a pr trick and a concession to the sanders camp, to get something else in the budget. great - that's democracy working, after a long absence of it.
but, america considers it's control of the global oil supply to be a key strategic necessity, and i don't imagine in the end that the pentagon - yes. the pentagon. - will allow this, as it is simply not in their interests.