Energy

What Barack Obama’s climate-change strategy means for Canada: Walkom | Toronto Star

When U.S. President Barack Obama spelled out his plans to fight climate change this week, most Canadian attention focused on a proposed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline. Certainly, the Keystone XL heavy oil pipeline is important. Both proponents and opponents of the Alberta oil sands have much riding on whether it goes ahead. Obama’s deliberately opaque references Tuesday gave few real clues But […]

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In Canada, Pipeline Remarks Stir Analysis – NYTimes.com

Perhaps it was his choice of words, but a small portion of President Obama’s speech about climate change on Tuesday has attracted a disproportionate amount of attention in Canada. At issue are his remarks about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would send bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. The pipeline requires presidential approval […]

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Canada Confident Keystone XL Will Be Approved – ABC News

Canada’s natural resources minister said Tuesday he’s confident the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada to Texas will be approved because it meets President Barack Obama’s requirement that it not lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Joe Oliver responded to Obama’s comments earlier Tuesday that the pipeline should be approved only if it does “not […]

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Talking Keystone, Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values – Business – CBC News

Alberta Premier Alison Redford says the United States and Canada share political and environmental values and must work together to become energy independent of those who do not. Redford, speaking to the Foreign Policy Association on Wednesday in New York, said until recently North American energy independence was wishful thinking. “We looked out at a world in which a significant […]

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Energy Reality Check: Keystone Crude Won’t Be Exported – Forbes

In my previous post about the outlandish rhetoric that has sprung up around the Keystone XL pipeline project, one of the comments included this often-repeated claim: “The problem is none of the oil will stay in the U.S. It will be sold to the highest bidder.” First of all, the statement is simply wrong on its face. Exports of crude […]

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