I agree! I remember laughing to myself when listening to the arguments against Keystone XL. I thought to myself, "So, you [the protesters] would rather have old, outdated pipelines instead of a new, state of the art pipeline?"
To add to your point, the Keystone XL will not increase oil consumption, but rather make current consumption safer and less expensive to transport. Conveniently, I don't think I saw those points mentioned in the news.