Platts - The Barrel: Why is Hillary Clinton backing the Keystone XL oil pipeline?

The Keystone XL pipeline was announced in the middle of 2008, and it's highly unlikely anybody saw this coming. "This" is the controversy that the line has created. The Macondo spill certainly fanned the flames, but even before that, environmentalists targeted the line as a "fightable" representation of something they very much object to: the production of petroleum from...