Harper Touts Made-in-Canada Pipe as Obama Weighs Keystone
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is backing a plan to send oil to Canada’s eastern provinces from Alberta as the Obama administration decides whether to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Harper met Canadian oil-industry executives in Calgary April 11 to build support for a plan by TransCanada Corp. to ship crude to Saint John, New Brunswick, about 400 miles (640 kilometers) northeast of Boston. Executives from TransCanada and Saint John-based Irving Oil Corp. attended the meeting, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the discussions weren’t public.