Obama Forces Canada's Oil to China

Delays in building the $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline project will force Canada to sell its huge oil reserves to China instead of the United States, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has bluntly warned President Barack Obama.

The White House has put off a decision on the 1,700-mile pipeline from Alberta to Texas until after the 2012 election so a study can be carried out into its impact on an environmentally sensitive area in Nebraska.

But late Monday, the company building the pipeline said it will do as the  Obama administration officials requested. TransCanada announced the company will move its planned oil pipeline out of the environmentally sensitive Sandhills area of Nebraska.

Details on how they would alter the planned route were not available late Monday, but experts believe it would add another $1.7 billion to the cost.