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TransCanada has sent a letter to the State Department on Monday asking to suspend building the Keystone pipeline amid the growing hostility shown by the Obama Administration. The application to build the nearly 1,200-mile-long pipeline (of which only 875 miles need to be completed), and requires presidential approval, has been waylaid for years by the current administration. TransCanada is ready to fold its tent and wait until after the next presidential election in 2016. The State Department has not indicated if it will accept TransCanada's request to withdraw its permit for building the project. The NY Times is also reporting that Obama's press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the president would make a decision regarding the pipeline this year or next, but gave no firm answers in the highly controversial pipeline. The pipeline, expected to carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from the Alberta oil sands to the Gulf coast for refining, has been a rallying cry of Democrats and environmentalists who see the oil pipeline as contributing to global warming.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_keystone.jpg