Another "Keystone" Pipeline Delayed -- Here We Go Again; The US State Department Wants A "Do-Over"; Bill McKibben's Fingerprints Are All Over This One

The Obama administration appears ready to kill another shovel-ready project. Enbridge is reporting that its Clipper pipeline project has been delayed due to US presidential inaction. Among other things, the president was golfing in Hawaii. GlobalNews.ca is reporting:

Enbridge is reporting that the U.S. State Department is taking longer than expected to review an expansion to an Alberta-to-Wisconsin pipeline.

But executives with the Calgary-based energy shipper said Friday they’re confident of getting a green light in time to expand the Alberta Clipper line to 800,000 barrels per day by the middle of next year.

Enbridge obtained a U.S. federal permit in 2009 before starting up the first 450,000-barrel-per-day phase of the line, but the State Department says it needs to amend its environmental review before allowing the expansions to go ahead.

So many story lines in this short article. But none of this worries me any more. The Australians have the solution:

World's Largest
The series on the I-98 is seeming less and less fictional every day. 

And, of course, there's always rail. LOL.

Seriously: the  Canadians and the Canadian government better get their act together; realize that the US is not the ally they can count on any more.