U.S. President Donald Trump spat contempt, calling a U.S. court-ordered halt to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline “a disgrace” — and then proceeded to do what he does pretty much every day, igniting a new volley of news-grenades, drawing attention elsewhere. It’s not the end for Keystone XL, of course. But Tillerson, to his credit, recused himself of any involvement in the Keystone XL pipeline file shortly after taking office in 2017 to avoid any perceived conflict of interest relating to his former role as chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp. “For years, the Keystone pipeline has occupied what I, frankly, consider an overinflated role in our political discourse,” he said. Like it or not, Keystone XL — the controversy, if not an actual pipeline — is back on centre stage.

Source: thestar November 09, 2018 23:48 UTC