Al Jazeera: The federal government has quietly approved major tar sands transportation projects with unstudied environmental effects -- managing to circumvent the executive branchs impact analysis that paralyzed development of the Keystone XL pipeline and bolstered activists claims that the project is dangerous and damaging to the environment.
Over the past few years, the Keystone pipeline has become a household name. The controversy caused by Canadian pipeline company TransCanadas project, which would...