The Keystone XL oil pipeline odyssey has become the latest lightning rod for all manner of competing political agendas in and out of Washington, DC.  The politicians and pundits have once again managed to render the issue unintelligible to the general public by making the Canada-USA crude oil pipeline a featured player in the many storylines competing for attention on the media stage, from “Jobs, jobs, jobs” to “Save the planet.”  The underlying issues and agendas for the energy, oil and gas industry get lost in the dense fog of obfuscating rhetoric.  So what is really going on here? 

Pace Global Energy Management and Consulting Services provides its perspective on the Keystone XL pipeline events and news "Starving the Beast — Keystone XL and the Politics of Global Warming".