{"id":12584,"date":"2015-09-24T06:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2015-09-24T06:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:40:33","slug":"oil-sands-pipelines-now-back-on-the-election-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12584","title":{"rendered":"Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Mulcair may have the most explaining to do in tonight’s French-language leaders’ debate<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton came out against the Keystone XL this week, the Canadian-backed pipeline that would carry Alberta bitumen \u2014\u00a0and some North Dakota crude \u2014\u00a0through the heartland of America to the giant refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

“I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline for what I believe it is \u2014\u00a0a distraction from the important work we have to do on climate change,”\u00a0Clinton 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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n