Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says with or without the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Alberta oilsands will continue to be developed.
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Keystone decision not likely until 2014; senators urge end to delays
WASHINGTON — The fate of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline isn’t likely to be determined until 2014, almost a decade after the Calgary-based energy giant first conceived of the project.
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Canada Plans Strategic Pipeline Infrastructure while US Stalls on Keystone
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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No Keystone, No Problem! Canadian Rail Moves to Pick Up the Slack
The ongoing stalemate between Ottawa and Washington over the future of the controversial $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline has proven a boon to Canada’s railways, which are seeing a surge in shipments moved by rail.
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Trucks, Trains, or Pipelines – The Best Way to Transport Petroleum
The U.S. is the most fully developed petroleum transport nation – we have crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel and jet fuel in transit 24/7/365 – mostly in pipelines. Lives lost are rare and environmental damage while awful at leak locations is a tiny amount of the total product moved.
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Could Algae Help Save the Keystone XL Pipeline?
President Barack Obama has said that he will not approve plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline to carry crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico if there is a possibility that it could negatively impact the environment through increased carbon emissions.
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TransCanada sticks by its numbers
CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) insists that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will create about 20,000 jobs, despite suggestions by U.S. president Barack Obama that those estimates might be unrealistic.
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Keystone XL start in 2015 ‘difficult’
TransCanada Corp. chief executive officer Russ Girling said the timeline for U.S. approval of the $5.3-billion Keystone XL pipeline project will make the start of operations in the second half of 2015 “difficult.”
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Why Considering the Environmental Impact of Keystone XL is Irrelevant
Last week President Obama unveiled a new plan to combat climate change in a speech at Georgetown University. While there is generally broad consensus that his comments further threaten the already battered US coal industry, his comments on TransCanada’s (TSX: TRP, NYSE: TRP) Keystone XL pipeline project had pundits guessing at his meaning. Here is what the President said in his speech about Keystone XL:
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Hicks on Biz: Oilsands’ truth and fantasy
This world can be a confusing place.
The militant greenies, convinced fossil fuels are the cause of all environmental evil (no matter the evidence to the contrary), are focused on the proposed Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines as symbols of that evil.
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