The Keystone XL Connection.
With approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and rail connections, more Canadian crude could reach the refineries of the Gulf of Mexico, displacing imports of Venezuelan, Mexican and Persian Gulf heavy crudes.
The many connections that a keystone species holds means that it maintains the organization and structure of entire communities.
Those 250,000 jobs, Levi says, are based on economic modeling of Canadian oil production more generally, and they have only a limited connection to whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline is built.
To count: An infographic posted by Grist maps out the connections between State Department officials (including Hillary Clinton) and lobbyists for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Instead, she devolved into the usual Republican talking points about the Keystone pipeline and Obamacare that, regardless how you feel about those issues, had little connection to anything the president said Tuesday night.
But their Clinton connections raise important questions about their possible influence over her decision regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. .
The loss of a keystone species results in a range of dramatic cascading effects that alters trophic dynamics, other food web connections, and can cause the extinction of other species.
Below is a description of the influence peddling firms and lobbyists that DeSmogBlog has identified as having close connections to Hillary Clinton and President Obama that are working to convince the State Department to approve Keystone XL.
Both McGinty and Dunn also have key marital connections with skin in the game for the looming decision over the prospective northern half of Keystone XL: Karl Hausker and Robert Bob Bauererespectivelyely. .
