http://www.carbontracker.org/wp-con...xl-The-Significance-Trap_FINAL_03_03_2014.pdf Basically the gist is a non profit in the U.K actually released a new study showing that the state department failed in some respects, you can read it here. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/keystone-xl-emissions-state-department_n_4892806.html This is to explain how they failed, it's rather obvious that they tried to downplay such affects.