Canada – Despite President Barack
Obama's delay on the Keystone XL pipeline until the end of the
Presidential election, Canada has announced it's going to continue to
promote the use of its tar sands as a source of energy.
Canada's government is currently under
its Conservative majority, which is supported by Western Canda and
funded by the gas and oil industry. This limits the country's
options, as does another proposal that sends tar sands oil to Asia's
markets. President Obama's decision to put off his approval for the
pipeline is likely to kill the project altogether. Initially set to
make a decision before the end of the year, President Obama faced a
huge amount of protesters both in front of the White House and during
his campaign tour that claimed tar sands oil is extremely hard to
extract. Jim Hansen of NASA, and one of the world's top climate
scientist said if the pipeline was to go through, it would
"essentially be game over for the climate."
Prime Minister of Canda Stephen Harper
said the United States approving the pipeline is a “no-brainer”.
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