Tar sands battle rages on
Tar sands' excavation in Alberta. The battle as to whether the construction of pipelines designed to run across the United States, from Alberta, Canada, is raging hot. No hint of prediction yet is in the offing that could tell if this oil infrastructure is bound to happen in the soonest possible time. Recently, the Obama administration has considered constructing the Keystone XL pipeline which would take Alberta's tar sands oil to Gulf coast refiners. But this plan was held in adyance for environmental reasons. However, TransCanada, Keystone's promoter is still hoping that the project will be approved, says May 26th issue of The Economist. As the battle rages on, the National Energy Board of Canada is in the process of conducting public hearings to make sure that the pipeline construction will be acceptable to both the governments and the environmentalists in Canada and the United States. The environmentalists' petitions came after Enbridge, an energy distributor, s...