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| Canada Sees ‘Serious Reversal’ if U.S. Bars Keystone | |
| 2013-04-25 | |
Mr. Oliver’s remarks at a Washington think tank Wednesday were the latest of a series of clear nudges to the Obama administration to approve the 875-mile pipeline that would carry oil sands from Alberta to Nebraska, and eventually to refineries on the Gulf Coast. “Make no mistake: Canadian resource development and export, including from the oil sands, will continue, Keystone or no Keystone,” he said, taking direct aim at environmentalists who hope that blocking the high-profile pipeline will be a death knell for future development of Canada’s heavy crude. “Anyone who equates the rejection of Keystone XL with some kind of body blow to the oil sands is just plain wrong,” Mr. Oliver said, talking up the prospects of pipelines within Canada that could carry oil-sands crude to the East or West coasts where it could be exported. Mr. Oliver directly confronted the main objections to Keystone in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “All the Keystone crude would displace Venezuelan and other heavy oil,” he said. “This means that shifting to Canadian oil will not increase greenhouse-gas emissions at all.” | |
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| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-04-25 08:41 |