HOUSTON, TEXAS — With Alberta bitumen languishing for want of pipelines to refineries and tidewater, on the other end of the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, the Texas Gulf Coast is crying out for Canadian crude.

Over a plate of steaming crawfish at Houston’s Ragin’ Cajun, David Holt, president of the North American-based Consumer Energy Alliance, says hope for the Keystone’s a bi-national thing: Canadian crude is already America’s number one energy partner, so a conduit to bring the safe, abundant, reliable supply of energy — and some needed job revitalization — into the Gulf Coast is essential.

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