Remember the Keystone XL pipeline? It could be coming back big time.
President Barack Obama vetoed the pipeline legislation in February 2015 and the Republican-backed bill failed to achieve an override quorum in the Senate. The controversial project would have linked Hardisty, Alberta, in Canada to Port Arthur, Texas, and transported roughly 800,000 barrels of heavy crude oil. Its critics had cited the environmental consequences as a major problem with the project.
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