WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Even if President Barack Obama approved the controversial Keystone XL pipeline tomorrow, at least some Canadian oil would still flow to Asia, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
In a public one-on-one interview here with Jane Harman, head of the Wilson Centre think-tank, Harper said Obama's rejection of the controversial pipeline -- even temporarily -- stressed Canada's need to find other buyers for oilsands crude.
And that wouldn't change even if the president's mind did.
"Look, the very fact that a 'no' could even be said underscores to our country that we must diversify our energy export markets," Harper told Harman in front of a live audience of businesspeople, scholars, diplomats, and journalists.
"We cannot be, as a country, in a situation where our one and, in many cases, only energy partner could say no to our energy products. We just cannot be in that position."
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ReplyDeleteplease recognize that Transcanada told you from the start that they wanted to sell this oil and refined products to the internation market in the first place! Please stop believing this fiction that Canadians and American companies just want to save their oil to lower prices in the US. Oh yea, Transcanada also told you that Keystone would have a neglible affect on national gas prices and would actually raise prices in the Midwest US.