Although TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion's share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by the U.S. State Department. Enter Cochin — Kinder Morgan's 1,900-mile proposed pipeline — to transport gas produced via the controversial hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas, north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands.