How Hillary Clinton and Rachel Notley are bringing more bad news to Alberta’s oilpatch

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Interesting article.



How Hillary Clinton and Rachel Notley are bringing more bad news to Alberta’s oilpatch

Claudia Cattaneo | September 23, 2015 6:26 PM ET

Claudia Cattaneo: Environmental organizations will leverage Hillary Clinton’s conversion to bolster the case against other bitumen pipeline projects, even ones Alberta premier Rachel Notley would like to see built.


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AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, ED KAISER/Postmedia NewsClaudia Cattaneo: Environmental organizations will leverage Hillary Clinton’s conversion to bolster the case against other bitumen pipeline projects, even ones Alberta premier Rachel Notley would like to see built.



When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley travels to Montreal, New York and Toronto next week to promote investment, she will discover that speaking from both sides of her mouth about her province’s energy sector doesn’t exactly instill confidence.

Sounding yet again like a cheerleader for opponents of Alberta’s energy industry, Notley, head of the left-leaning NDP government, reacted positively to U.S Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton’s surprise announcement that she’s opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf.

That’s right, speaking to reporters, Notley said she’d rather see more refining and upgrading in Alberta (which would have to be financially supported by her cash-strapped government because no one in the private sector wants to do it) than sending the province’s bitumen to refineries in the U.S. Gulf through a pipeline proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. and supported widely by the North American oil community.

“I do think we need to get our product to tidewater,” she said. “I’m just not convinced that getting our product down to the Gulf where there’s a whole bunch of cheap refining is absolutely the best strategy for an industry in Alberta when Albertans want to see focus more on upgrading and refining.”

In fact, Clinton’s about-face on KXL is more bad news for Alberta............

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1. How the hell did Hillary matter here?

The powers that be already told her she can oppose it. It's no longer economically feasible after the shale bubble burst!

[Fred Sanders]

2. "Sounding yet again like a cheerleader...." is both poor writing and a poor way to make a point

against the female leader of the first socialist party to be elected in Alberta ever.