Question: Explain to the project manager at Keystone how and why conflict is not something that should be avoided at all costs when managing a project team and how embracing conflict may actually be a positive thing for this project.

Keystone Pipeline Case If it's built. TransCanada Corporation's Keystone XL pipeline will bring crude oil from Hardisty. Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska on the Gulf Coast. The controversial pipeline project was initiated in 2005 but has faced much environmental and political lobbying and opposition over the subsequent dozen years. The pipeline project has not yet reached the construction stage. Not only will the pipeline supply oil to a major market, it would also bring economic hope to many along its route through the economic spinoffs it would provide (employment, supply of materials, etc) The pipeline was rejected by US President Barack Obama while he was in office. However, Keystone XL has now been tentatively approved for construction by Republican President Donald Trump. However, it still faces much opposition. The following information is taken from various media sources concerning the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. "Keystone XL cost may surge to $10-billion, TransCanada says" Globe & Mail, September 19, 2014 The cost of building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which is awaiting approval from the US government after an initial rejection, may climb 85 per cent to $10-billion (US), according to developer TransCanada Corp. The new estimate increases the project cost from the current $5.4 billion. TransCanada Corp., the second-largest Canadian pipeline operator, applied six years ago to build Keystone XL to carry rising supplies of oil-sands crude to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline was rejected by President Barack Obama in 2012. TransCanada then split up the project to build the southern portion first and refiled for approval for the northern leg with an alternate route in Nebraska. The U.S. State Department is awaiting the outcome of a Nebraska court battle over the regulatory review of the line's path through the state before making a ruling. The department has jurisdiction over the project because it would cross the U.S. border with Canada. Environmental campaigners have stalled progress on the project from early on in its development, arguing it would boost carbon dioxide emissions and hurt the communities that live in its proposed path. The project is one of several that activists are due to highlight at demonstrations planned at the United Nations Climate Summit, which starts next week. TransCanada calls the opposition ignorant of the project's realities. The lack of a decision on whether the project will go ahead has resulted in it carrying costs for Trans Canada Corp. of $150-million a year. "Keystone XL pipeline rejection sends a chill over Canada's energy industry" Globe & Mail, November 6, 2015 The rejection of Trans Canada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline project puts new pressure on Canada's energy industry to figure out how to ship growing oil sands production from the landlocked west to global markets U.S. President Barack Obama's categorical "no" to the 830,000-barrel-a-day project will not immediately shut down new oil sands projects but could have cooling effect on growth in the industry already stung by more than a year of sharply lower oil prices. At a time when the energy sector is rife with job losses, TransCanada spokespeople say the Keystone XL project would have put 2,200 Canadians to work almost overnight. Not to mention benefits to the US including the creation of jobs for US workers along the pipeline route and at the final destination along with the provision of affordable fuel to the Gulf Coast. Following the rejection of the project, TransCanada said it would review its options, which include filing a new application for a presidential permit for a cross- border pipeline Edmontone "Keystone XL construction to start next year, TransCanada says" CBC News September 24, 2018 Despite the fact that US President Donald Trump had conditionally approved TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline Project Keystone XL Pipeline's alternate proposed route ALTA in 2017, the Calgary-based developer has just MAN announced that it plans to start construction Hardisty sometime in 2019. This comes after a U.S. State Department review ordered by a federal judge Proposed Keystone XL concluded that major environmental damage from Existing pipeline a leak is unlikely and could quickly be mitigated, a pipeline company spokesman said Monday. The State Department has noted that TransCanada has a Steele City Patoka lower overall spill rate than average in the pipeline Cushing industry - Winnipeg Houston Nederland Despite the fact that in this latest round of delays, environmentalists, Native American tribes and a MES coalition of landowners have prevented the company from moving ahead with construction, TransCanada has stated that it remains committed to moving ahead with the project following over a decade of reviews from federal and state regulators CRC NEWS Sure Tha Canada The report issued Friday from the Trump administration's State Department drew criticism from environmental groups, who say they'll continue to fight the project they view as an environmental threat