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C/P from: http://www.680news.com/2013/10/04/anti-keystone-billionaire-takes-aim-at-stephen-harpers-hard-line-on-pipeline/
[h=1]Anti-Keystone billionaire takes aim at Stephen Harpers hard line on pipeline[/h] Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press Oct 4, 2013 12:17:48 PM
OTTAWA An anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusader has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, suggesting Canadas aggressive lobbying for the project played a part in the ongoing government shutdown south of the border.
Tom Steyer, a San Francisco billionaire and a major Democratic party fundraiser, chastises Harper for saying he would not take no for an answer from U.S. President Barack Obama on TransCanadas Keystone XL.
In a question-and-answer session with the Canadian American Business Council last week in New York, Harper took a hard line on how Canada would respond if the Keystone XL project is rejected by the White House.
My view is you dont take no for an answer, Harper said. This wont be final until its approved and we will keep pushing forward.
Steyer takes issue with those comments in his letter to the prime minister.
Have your government, your governments lobbyist and/or agents representing TransCanada communicated with House Republicans about including Keystone in the original litany of demands put to President Obama? Steyer asks in the letter to Harper sent Friday.
Steyer says in the dispatch that TransCanada is launching a new advertising company aimed at stakeholders in Washington, D.C.
News of this advertising campaign comes in the context of House Republicans having closed down the U.S. government as well as threatening to oppose the extension of the countrys debt limit unless certain demands were met, Steyer wrote.
Included in the original list of House Republican demands was that the Obama administration grant approval for the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The combination of the advertising campaign and Harpers comments last week raises the question of whether your office is working hand-in-hand with TransCanada to try to exploit the current situation in Washington, D.C., at the expense of the American people, Steyer wrote.
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Wasn't the whole Obamacare issue what the GOP was willing to shut the gov down over? Surely it wasn't about getting oil from a friendly nation
instead of getting it from less respected nations.
[h=1]Anti-Keystone billionaire takes aim at Stephen Harpers hard line on pipeline[/h] Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press Oct 4, 2013 12:17:48 PM
OTTAWA An anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusader has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, suggesting Canadas aggressive lobbying for the project played a part in the ongoing government shutdown south of the border.
Tom Steyer, a San Francisco billionaire and a major Democratic party fundraiser, chastises Harper for saying he would not take no for an answer from U.S. President Barack Obama on TransCanadas Keystone XL.
In a question-and-answer session with the Canadian American Business Council last week in New York, Harper took a hard line on how Canada would respond if the Keystone XL project is rejected by the White House.
My view is you dont take no for an answer, Harper said. This wont be final until its approved and we will keep pushing forward.
Steyer takes issue with those comments in his letter to the prime minister.
Have your government, your governments lobbyist and/or agents representing TransCanada communicated with House Republicans about including Keystone in the original litany of demands put to President Obama? Steyer asks in the letter to Harper sent Friday.
Steyer says in the dispatch that TransCanada is launching a new advertising company aimed at stakeholders in Washington, D.C.
News of this advertising campaign comes in the context of House Republicans having closed down the U.S. government as well as threatening to oppose the extension of the countrys debt limit unless certain demands were met, Steyer wrote.
Included in the original list of House Republican demands was that the Obama administration grant approval for the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The combination of the advertising campaign and Harpers comments last week raises the question of whether your office is working hand-in-hand with TransCanada to try to exploit the current situation in Washington, D.C., at the expense of the American people, Steyer wrote.
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Wasn't the whole Obamacare issue what the GOP was willing to shut the gov down over? Surely it wasn't about getting oil from a friendly nation
instead of getting it from less respected nations.
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