http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/06/tiny-port-new-energy-battleground/This is the first step. Two years to get the ROW approved, not counting the lawsuits.
Five years at the earliest. And there still is the engineering issues of pushing the heavy crude up hill to cross the Continental Divide.
But China has the C$$ to do it with. Good luck to the popsicles with their China partners.
I hope this can be done and Canada tells the US to take a powder and Berry to shove the Keystone XL.
Of course by then he will have had his 2 terms and the US will be way down the road of the European Socialist model and the US will not be any further along to energy non dependance.