Route Proposals May Ease An Oil Pipeline Bottleneck.

OTTAWA -- With the timing, and perhaps the future, of the Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada's oil sands to the Gulf Coast now uncertain, two alternatives to the hotly contested project have begun emerging. Both would try to solve one of the problems that the Keystone project was meant to address: the shortage of pipeline capacity for carrying oil from a main terminal in Cushing, Okla., to refineries in Texas and other parts of the Gulf Coast. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]