Waxman Rejects Expansion of Oilsands Pipeline to Gulf Coast. By Dina O’Meara, Calgary Herald, July 7, 2010. “A top U.S. politician has waded into the debate against a Canadian pipeline expansion to take crude from Alberta's oilsands to southern markets, calling the Keystone XL a ‘step in the wrong direction.’ House Energy and Commerce committee chairman Henry Waxman called on the U.S. government to block the expansion of TransCanada Corp.'s proposed pipeline expansion to the Gulf of Mexico... The proposed $7 billion expansion would pump 510,000 barrels per day of crude from Alberta to U.S. refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. It would be completed by 2013, and forms part of TransCanada's Keystone line which began pumping to refineries in Illinois last week...
“On June 23, 49 Democratic representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to halt the Keystone XL expansion on grounds the bitumen carried on the line represents damaged environments in northern Alberta and higher carbon dioxide emissions in North America. In response to mounting pressure against the oilsands, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach ran a half-page ad in the influential newspaper the Washington Post on Friday. Stelmach outlined the importance of Canada's secure oil supply, the jobs the industry represents in the U.S. on the pipelines and refineries processing the resource, as well as technologies being used to mitigate some of the environmental impacts. He urged collaboration between the nations to develop a secure energy future. Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the United States, followed by Mexico, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.”
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