The U-S State Department has released a draft environmental report on the Keystone XL oil pipeline that doesn’t make a recommendation for or against the project but does not raise major objections.

It acknowledges that the oil from Canadian tar sands that would be carried by the pipeline would create greenhouse gases, but says that oil would likely be developed, regardless of whether the Keystone XL is approved and that other methods to transport the oil also pose a risk to the environment.

The State Department was required to conduct a new environmental analysis after the pipeline’s operator, Calgary-based TransCanada, changed the project’s route though Nebraska. The Obama administration blocked the project last year because of concerns that the original route would have jeopardized environmentally sensitive land in the Sand Hills region.