Reports indicate that the Obama Administration is on the verge of killing the Keystone Pipeline. However, in a conciliatory gesture, Obama is offering a few compromise measures to Republican backers of the pipeline. Under the compromise plan, the US government will still send hundreds of millions of dollars to TransCanada, the Canadian company that proposed the pipeline, and TransCanada will truck down loads of oil and dump them in wilderness areas along the proposed pipeline route. “I’m disappointed,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “But at least there’s a recognition of how important oil companies are to this country.”