The Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling and allowed a slew of pipeline projects to move forward under a fast-track permitting process but left out the controversial, long-delayed expansion of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
The 1,200-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which is now temporarily held up by the high court, would link Canadian oil sands fields to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The project would add to the existing Keystone pipeline, finished in 2013, which runs from Alberta, Canada, to Illinois, Texas, and Oklahoma.
