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On November 10, 2011, the Obama administration announced that no decision would be made on the long-sought Keystone XL pipeline. Instead, the administration would seek a new route and a new comprehensive environmental review, which would push a final decision into the first quarter of 2013, after the next presidential election.

The Keystone XL pipeline is a proposed $7 billion, nearly 1,700-mile, 36-inch crude oil pipeline that will stretch from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, bringing significant new oil supplies to refineries in the U.S.