If you can't think of anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. That, more or less, seems to have been the philosophy behind the State Department's decision, after careful consideration of the pros and cons of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, to make no decisions until after next year's presidential elections. Thus Ba-rack Obama can face the voters without having passed judgment on a project that had prompted a showdown between the business lobby and environmentalists. Businesses and the unions like the proposed Keystone xl pipeline because it would generate orders and jobs—20,000 of them, says TransCanada, the firm behind the scheme.
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