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The Straight Story

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Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:16 AM Apr 2013

To Win Support for Keystone, Alberta Premier Pleads Poverty in D.C. Visit

WASHINGTON—The premier of Alberta, Canada, made another visit to Washington D.C. last week, pleading again for U.S. approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would carry Alberta's heavy crude to refineries on the Texas coast.

Without expanded access to markets in the United States and beyond, Premier Alison Redford said, her province's oil sands crude is selling for discounted prices—and that is creating big problems for Alberta's budget, which relies heavily on oil royalties.

"It has really had an impact on our revenues, you know—we've expected that probably this year alone because of that differential that we are seeing about a $6 billion drop in revenues," Redford said at the Brookings Institution on Tuesday.

It is a bit of a novelty for Washington to host the leader of a petro state controlling one of the richest oil reserves in the world, come to plead poverty as part of her sales pitch.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130415/win-support-keystone-alberta-premier-pleads-poverty-dc-visit

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She's using the right language to get support in DC. She's dangling money and oil in sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #1

sabrina 1

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1. She's using the right language to get support in DC. She's dangling money and oil in
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:35 AM
Apr 2013

in their faces. Considering how much money is involved, she's likely to get what she wants.

I guess she knows what our priorities are.

And where is 'beyond'? South America, overseas?

Alberta isn't the only place having budget problems. Why does the think we should destroy our environment to take care of Alberta's budget problems? We can't take care of our own.

So what's in it for the American people?

Offshore drilling, pipelines through the country. And with all these international oil companies drilling here and taking our oil out of the country, we get higher gas prices.

I have a scary feeling that this is a done deal, now all that's left is to find a way to get the support of the American people so we can pretend we have some kind of democracy here. I imagine her claiming poverty is a way to get sympathy for this abominable project. Appeal to the decency of people here.

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