Keystone Refusal Shifts Focus to Next Oil-Sands Pipeline Sagas
- Companies, politicians rally around conduits east and west
- Denial tied to climate change boosts environmental activists
Oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
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With Keystone XL shot down by President Barack Obama, the Canadian energy industry -- and its opponents -- are turning their attention to the other options.
Three pipelines proposed to carry rising oil-sands volumes from landlocked Alberta to Canada’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts face delays as activists, local communities and politicians attack their risks to the environment in a repeat of TransCanada Corp.’s seven-year saga seeking U.S. approval.