MLive: To listen to Congressman Fred Upton, there's really no downside to constructing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
"It's tens of thousands of jobs," the Republican congressman from Southwest Michigan told the Kalamazoo Gazette Editorial Board on Tuesday.
And, he said, "It's better for the planet."
On the latter point, Upton argues the Canadians will develop their oil fields regardless of whether the United States approves a pipeline from the Canadian border to oil refineries on the...