Mulcair may have the most explaining to do in tonight’s French-language leaders’ debate
So now we know. The woman who wants to be the next Democrat to occupy the White House has made a decision that the president she hopes to succeed hasn’t, or won’t.
Hillary Clinton came out against the Keystone XL this week, the Canadian-backed pipeline that would carry Alberta bitumen — and some North Dakota crude — through the heartland of America to the giant refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
“I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline for what I believe it is — a distraction from the important work we have to do on climate change,” Clinton said at a meeting in Iowa, which just happens to be a key battleground state for Democrats in the lead-up to the presidential nomination race next year.
She used stronger language in a later tweet, saying “it’s time to invest in a clean energy future not build a pipeline to carry our continent’s dirtiest oil across the U.S.”
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American progressives and environmentalists — key Democratic constituencies — immediately cheered her decision. Barack Obama likely did, too, from the privacy of the Oval Office.
After delaying his own decision, again and again, Clinton’s statement may well relieve him of having to make one at all.
Clinton, too, had delayed stating where she stood. And for good reason. She was Obama’s secretary of state when her department concluded Keystone XL would have no significant impact on oil sands development, support 42,000 jobs and generate billions in tax revenues in the U.S.
But these days, Clinton is more interested in burnishing whatever climate-friendly agenda she intends to roll out, especially now that she’s facing a real threat for the Democratic nomination from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
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