The Senate approved the Keystone XL pipeline in a Thursday vote, ruling in favor of building the final piece of the controversial oil-carrying line.

It was a bipartisan 62-to-36 vote , according to NPR. It's all but guaranteed that President Barack Obama will veto the bill, and the Senate likely won't have the 67 necessary votes to override the veto.

Obama has already said he wouldn't approve any Keystone XL bill until the State Department was finished , Reuters reported.

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The pipeline would bring , adding jobs and bringing more crude from a nearby ally, Vox.com said. But there would surely be environmental impacts to such a measure, which has many groups fervently opposed to the pipeline.

Despite the likely veto of the bill, here's why you should care about the proposed pipeline.

1. The pipeline would exacerbate climate change, experts say

Crude oil that would be delivered by the Keystone XL pipeline originates from oil sands, which are , according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. It's not easy to extract crude oil from the sands, and the process requires a lot of energy.

The State Department has released findings that show oil sands over a life cycle than regular oil, The Washington Post reported. It simply takes more energy to extract and produce oil from oil sands than other methods.

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If estimates are correct, the new pipeline would transport roughly 830,000 barrels of oil each day, Vox adds. Over the course of a year, that would add 1.3 to 27.4 million additional metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere – the equivalent of adding 250,000 to 5.5 million cars to the road, the State Department has estimated.

However, when you consider that humans emitted some 36 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, that's hardly a drop in the bucket.

2.Oil-sandsproduction will continue, no matter what happens with the pipeline

Oil companies are fairly resilient when it comes to moving their product, and they'll find another way to send the oil sands to America if the Keystone XL pipeline never gets completed. Another pipeline is already in the works that would carry oil sands , Climate Central reports, and that project is even bigger than Keystone XL.

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Even if the pipeline isn't an option, there's still other transportation methods, like trains or trucks. However, supporters of the pipeline bill say shipping the oil by train or truck is even more harmful to the environment, with increased electricity usage or diesel fuel burning necessary in those two methods, The Washington Post notes.

The State Department also cites the risk of accidents from oil transport by rail or truck. Among the routes they studied, three to eight times more oil could be spilled in accidents, and .

3. Even with a presidential veto, the fight likely won't end

Supporters of the pipeline have promised their constituents that the project would add tens of thousands of jobs, so don't expect them to back down gently.

Petroleum companies who support the pipeline will only get more vocal following the news that the bill has attracted some bipartisan support, despite the White House's solid stance on the other side of the debate.

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" because of politics as usual," said the American Petroleum Institute in a statement released Thursday. "We urge the president to make the right decision and approve KXL because it is in this nation’s best interest."

Lawmakers have even suggested attaching the measure to a spending bill or some other important piece of legislation that Obama wouldn't be likely to reject, Reuters also reported.

Despite the majority currently held by the Republicans in the Senate, it will be a long, uphill climb to find those five additional votes to make the final phase of the Keystone XL pipeline a reality.

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