Keystone Pipeline Will Impact Climate Change, State Department Reports

The State Department has dug more deeply (pdf) into the issue of greenhouse gases ... and announced Friday that the Keystone XL pipeline would increase greenhouse gas emissions.  Oil from Alberta’s tar sands is one of the most polluting kinds of oil, the report notes, thanks to the energy cost of producing it in the first place as well as the pet coke and other byproducts that end up getting burned as well.  The State Department also noted that just running the pipeline for a year once built would result in the same greenhouse gas pollution as roughly 300,000 cars over the same time span, and that the oil carried by the pipeline could add as much as 27 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year, most of that from its ultimate use as fuel.

Keystone Pipeline Will Impact Climate Change, State Department Reports