Might be some truth to that . After it was finally cancelled , NPR did a story on how the Keystone XL pipeline was full of bullshit on both sides of the debate . Proponents for building it seemed to refuse to acknowledge that all but a handful of the jobs it would have created would be temporary and people opposed to it were mostly environmentalists who just needed something concrete to fight against . It ' s not like we would have used much more oil just because it was going through that pipeline instead of being shipped by rail . The SD Pipeline has a bunch of seeminglylegit issues about it going through Native American sacred land without their permission and I heard something about it doing that because white people didn ' t want it going through their land and the pipeline builders just assumed they could shit on the Natives much more easily that I haven ' t tried to verify yet . But it also has the same BS It will totally definitely leak and poison all the groundwater FOREVER because it ' s not like you can turn it off fairly quickly or redirect it to a catch pond like the recent leak in AL or anything argument that was used with Keystone XL that is being reduced to an even more bullshitty It will poison our drinking water ! Facebook meme of an argument . Plus they ' ve been really heavyhanded with the protesters , which hurts the case of the people building it .