Campaigns, candidates and the Keystone XL pipeline

By Sabrina Fang

Newly minted presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is for it, Jeb Bush who is thinking of a 2016 run says it’s a “no brainer”, but one White House hopeful has been mum about the Keystone XL pipeline.  As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was “inclined” to approve KXL, but what will she say now that she is once again a presidential candidate?

Before she officially threw her hat in the ring, Clinton managed to dodge ever KXL question she got. Now that she is officially running the pressure on for her to have a position on the project.

“Every day Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion,” Clinton said when she announced her run for the White House.

Well, every day Americans also need jobs and Keystone would create 40,000 good paying jobs. Voters in 2016 will need to look at where the candidates stand on issues like KXL. It’s a litmus test to see who wants to put the country on the right track towards economic and energy prosperity and who is going in the wrong direction.

More Keystone news:

• South Dakota agency limits some interveners in Keystone XL oil pipeline case – Aberdeen American News
  TransCanada’s lawyers convinced state regulators Tuesday that some parties shouldn’t be able to present direct evidence or direct witnesses in the hearing next month on the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline to be built through South Dakota. The state Public Utilities Commission placed partial sanctions on as many as 22 interveners who didn’t comply fully or in part with the April 2 deadline for presenting pre-filed testimony from witnesses.
• House panel wants enviro activist group’s communications with EPA’s McCarthy – Washington Examiner
  A House committee investigating the destruction of more than 5,000 official cellular telephone text messages by the Environmental Protection Agency wants a major nonprofit activist group to provide copies of all its communications with Gina McCarthy, the agency’s chief, on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. “You and Administrator McCarthy have apparently worked closely together on important issues, and as your text message to the administrator indicates, you have similar goals on Keystone XL,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas., told League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski in a letter made public Tuesday.
• Canada eager to work with U.S. on energy emissions, Rickford says – Bloomberg
  Canada is eager to expand cooperation with the U.S. on environmental standards for oil and natural gas and to work toward a global climate agreement, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said. “A continental approach is the surest way to improve our environmental performance while enhancing our energy security and economic prosperity,” Rickford said in the text of a speech he’s giving at the Bloomberg Future of Energy Summit in New York Tuesday. “But both our countries understand that real success hinges on global efforts.”
• TransCanada looking at oil port sites outside Quebec – Financial Post
  Canada is eager to expand cooperation with the U.S. on environmental standards for oil and natural gas and to work toward a global climate agreement, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said. “A continental approach is the surest way to improve our environmental performance while enhancing our energy security and economic prosperity,” Rickford said in the text of a speech he’s giving at the Bloomberg Future of Energy Summit in New York Tuesday. “But both our countries understand that real success hinges on global efforts.”