Keystone oil sands

On November 10, the Obama administration said it would delay a decision on the Keystone oil sands pipeline expansion until 2013.

The pipeline has been opposed by environmental groups, citing risk of spills but also would also keep the United States into dependency on oil sands, a particularly dirty form of oil. Supporters believe however; that jobs created from the pipeline would help boost local economy and the US could use the 700k barrels per day the pipeline would generate.

While Obama did not cancel the pipeline, the delay means the pipeline can not create much needed jobs for workers.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/10/news/economy/keystone_pipeline/index.htm