This is a guest post by Andrew Leach, Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Alberta. It originally appeared in Maclean’s magazine and is republished here with permission.
There’s no shortage of blame being passed around in the wake of another delay in the U.S. regulatory approval process with respect to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline which, it was announced recently, will now drag on for at least another six months.
Among other reasons cited for the decision, the Calgary Herald’s Deborah Yedlin and others have cited a lack of greenhouse gas policies applied to Canada’s oil sands. Yedlin is (Read more…)