Canada continues to push ahead with a strategic plan for its own energy pipeline infrastructure as the United States has yet again delayed a decision on the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline designed to take the hydrocarbon product of Alberta’s oil sands to the American Gulf Coast. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. State Department has opened an investigation to look at whether contracts were wrongfully awarded in the review process for the Keystone XL and to examine whether the regulatory safeguards that were adopted are proper.

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