Globe & Mail - Sec. Clinton Signals Green Light For Tar Sands Pipeline To U.S.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent the first signals to Alberta's oil sands producers that the Obama administration is set to green-light a pipeline delivering more of its crude, saying that Canada's “dirty oil” is a better alternative for the United States than the Persian Gulf's.

In remarks that went largely unnoticed until Wednesday, the U.S. secretary of state told the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco late last week that TransCanada Corp.’s (TRP-T39.060.210.54%) Keystone XL pipeline will likely be approved by the U.S. State Department.

The proposal for the pipeline is currently being reviewed by the State Department following cajoling by Democratic legislators, environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster earlier this year. “We haven't finished all of the analysis, so as I say, we've not yet signed off on it,” Ms. Clinton said in response to a question from the audience at the event on Friday.

“But we are inclined to do so and we are for several reasons ... we're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.” Tolerating dirty oil, she added, is a reality “until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet.”

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Ed. - Emphasis added - and when would that be?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-set-to-approve-keystone-xl-pipeline/article1765920/

[Radical Activist]

1. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

Canada tar sands are much worse than oil from other sources. The environmental damage is catastrophic. We can't undo the damage once it has been done. The answer is to use much LESS oil, not dirtier oil. This is out of step with the much more positive action the administration has been taking.

http://www.tarsandswatch.org/

[Nihil]

2. Funny how "Change" smells just like oil ... (n/t)

:-(