Obama on Friday conceded that Keystone took on an "over-inflated role in our political discourse" as environmentalists called the pipeline a "game over" proposition for the climate while business groups touted the economic benefits and energy security it offered the U.S. In denying TransCanada a permit to build the contentious project, Mr. A decision that Stephen Harper fatefully called a "complete no brainer" morphed into a litmus test of President Barack Obama's environmental cred, one in which symbolism trumped facts and cross-border correspondence descended into nasty jibes. The tortuous saga of the cursed pipeline merits its very own and very long chapter in the annals of Canada-U.S. The Keystone XL pipeline has become collateral damage in a war of perceptions.
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