But fierce opposition has arisen in the United States, particularly in Westchester County, where environmentalists, homeowners, elected officials and others have called the project unsafe and detrimental to the environment.
Officials said a daylight shooting on Monday and a murder last week made the housing project unsafe for two postal carriers who deliver mail to 550 homes there.
After 18 months of study, their National Research Council NRCC) report found the project unsafe, underfunded and doomed to fail in its current form.Next, on July 22nd, came an only-in-Washington squabble when Barack Obama marked the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing by greeting Apollo 11 astronauts in the Oval Office, but failed to invite reporters to the photo-op.
With that in mind, and with a decision on Keystone XL still likely to play a major role during the general election, foes of the pipeline were quick to hail Tuesday's report as the latest evidence that the project was unsafe.
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"If I thought this project was unsafe for the B.C. coast, I would reject it," Trudeau said.
It does not mean the structures or projects are unsafe -- it ensures that they remain safe.
The coalition asked the judge to block the moratorium, arguing that there was no evidence that existing projects were unsafe.
But just as the commission was closing in on a final environmental report, homeowners, politicians and environmentalists mounted an aggressive attack on the project, calling it unsafe.
In late October, Enbridge delivered its final arguments for the irrefutably unsafe Line 9 pipeline reversal project, seeking permission from the National Energy Board of Canada to pump more than 47 million litres per day of diluted tar sands bitumen through its 38 year-old pipeline in the most densely populated part of Canada.
