article_snippet: TransCanada Corp. Houston Lateral Project pipe yard in Mont Belvieu, Texas, waiting to be hooked up to a massive flow of Canadian oil from Alberta's tar sands .
article_snippet: And Danielle Droitsch, Canada Project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council,vlaimed Canada's 'dirty tar sands oil pipeline is simply not in America's national interest.'
article_snippet: The $8 billion project would transport oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to pipelines linked to Gulf Coast refineries, and would also include some oil from North Dakota.
article_snippet: Environmentalists have framed the pipeline as a test of Obama's commitment to address climate change, arguing that the pipeline would open up a path for tar sands oil to get to market.
article_snippet: Republicans have pushed the pipeline as a job-creating infrastructure project that will supply the U.S. with oil from a friendly neighbor, rather than unstable regimes.
article_snippet: The State Department's analysis found that oil would be harvested regardless of whether the pipeline is built, a conclusion that the EPA said needed to be re-examined given low oil prices.
article_snippet: The same review said the pipeline would create thousands of jobs during construction, but ultimately the pipeline would require 35 permanent employees to maintain.
article_snippet: State did not tackle an estimate of how many jobs the project might create in the petroelum industry as a new gusher of oil flows to the U.S. Gulf Coast.