“I spoke this morning with Prime Minister Trudeau about building this infrastructure which should continue to be a national priority and reinforced both the Alberta and Canadian economies need infrastructure that get Alberta’s energy resources to tide water and he agreed we need to work collaboratively on this project”, she said. With countries from around the world headed to Paris for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at the end of the month, administration officials want to make sure American diplomats are credible when pushing other countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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But during the election campaign, Trudeau accused Stephen Harper of “diplomatic failure” on the issue of Keystone XL, saying that the Conservative government didn’t do anything to address the Obama administration’s environmental concerns.
“Today’s announcement unfortunately comes as no surprise”.
Rep. Chris Stewart • “It’s absurd that the White House has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline project”.
“Gurling pointed out that TransCanada is now considering all options, including filing a new application for a presidential permit following Obama’s decision”. The company has previously raised the possibility of suing the U.S.to recoup the more than $2 billion it says it has already spent on development.
“The jobs, economic benefit and energy security the pipeline would afford Montana, especially eastern Montana, are now lost due to the dysfunction that has come to define Washington, D.C.”, said Gov. Steve Bullock, in a typical statement.
“This president clearly worships at the altar of climate change”, U.S. Sen.
The Republican field is unanimous in support of Keystone, while the Democratic candidates are all opposed – including Hillary Rodham Clinton, who oversaw the early part of the federal review as Obama’s first-term secretary of state.
TransCanada first applied for Keystone permits in September 2008 – shortly before Obama was elected.
The pipeline would have traveled through 17 states-eventually delivering oil to Gulf Coast refineries. Even as our economy has continued to grow, the USA has cut carbon emissions over the past few years. Weeks later, Obama rejected the application, but allowed TransCanada to re-apply.
The State Department has been reviewing the project for much of Obama’s presidency, and the project has become a political football during presidential and congressional elections.
“The fact is pipelines are safer – far safer than other means of transporting oil, like rail”, Wall said.
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The United States, he explained, consumes daily more than seven million barrels more oil than it produces, and will continue to do so for decades, despite increases in USA oil production. But TransCanada’s CEO has insisted that isn’t the case.
