The April 2014 switch was a temporary solution until the end of 2016 when construction would be complete on a new pipeline drawing water from Lake Huron and meant to supply water to Flint and several surrounding counties.
Even before the World Bank voted on June 6, the pipeline drew a level of opposition in the West unusual for an African project.
For Obama, the physical tar pit lies far away in northeastern Alberta province, Canada, but a rhetorical one surrounds him in Washington as the fight to shape his position on an oil pipeline draws toward a climax.
Because construction was slumping in the United States at large, the pipeline drew workers from across the country.
For example, if the user selects 'Illumina_120', the pipeline draws the image with file 'conf/Illumina_120.tile', which is an ASCII file for the one lane per sample sequencing on the current generation of Ilumina Genome Analyzer.
Ukrainian officials say they are withdrawing only enough gas to operate pumping stations serving the pipelines, while drawing on reserves for internal use.
But industry analysts said that some of Enron's assets, particularly its pipelines, could draw a lot of interest, even in such a desperate climate.
It's Russia who so far has learned the lessons of that enormous U.S.-backed diplomatic triumph; it's got a handful of carefully selected oil-natural gas pipelines on the drawing board that, if built unanswered by rival, western-built lines, will grab back much influence in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and project more of its petro-power into Europe down the road.
The pipeline would draw natural gas from many sources, including the Marcellus Shale, a rich natural gas field that runs across several states including New York.
The pipeline will draw gas from the Tarim Basin in the remote inland Xinjiang region and distribute it to towns and cities as far east as Shanghai.
