Posted on 04/10/2022 6:09:05 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
The chair of the powerful U.S. Senate committee on energy and natural resources — and a key swing vote in the Senate — will tour an oilsands mine and thermal oilsands facility with Premier Jason Kenney and Energy Minister Sonya Savage.
The visit came about after the three politicians spoke by phone last month and discussed energy security and the need for a continental strategy.
“He mentioned he’d like to come up and see the oilsands, see how they do things up here, have a tour, understand the processes and understand the potential,” Savage said in an interview Friday....
Industry leaders in Canada say getting Manchin to visit the oilsands, with the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, is significant after the U.S. banned Russian oil imports and is looking to secure additional supplies....
“They’ve been sending envoys (from) the administration to the Middle East and to Venezuela to look at how they could increase production. Joe Manchin’s visit to Alberta starts to reinforce what is probably the most logical, the most economic and the most secure form of oil for the U.S. driving public.”...
Alberta’s energy minister also hopes to talk about critical minerals and the potential to develop them in the province and become a key supplier in North America.
Inevitably, they will also discuss the failed Keystone XL cross-border oil pipeline, which was cancelled by U.S. President Joe Biden last year.
The Kenney government invested directly in the project, which was led by Calgary-based TC Energy, and has since pegged its financial losses at $1.3 billion....
“We should have built that pipeline,” Manchin told Fox TV last month. “I still think we should build that pipeline and have that product coming from Canada, our best and friendliest neighbour.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at calgaryherald.com ...
CNN and the WashPost will probably do hit pieces on the oilsands and Joe Manchin too
The eco-kooks are desperate to stop ALL oil production!
Manchin is hanging out with COVID tyrant Premier Jason Kenney of Alberta.
Kenney needs to go but he changed the leadership process in his “United Conservative Party” so it’s a mail in vote instead of in person vote.
We may know the results by mid-May.
Kenney is in bed with energy the energy industry but not personal liberty.
Kenney is not perfect, but he’s the best we’ve got
at least he stands up to Trudeau (and he’s the the only Premier who does) ... we need to keep Jason Kenney as Premier
if Kenney is gone, the NDP gets back in ... and they will be WAY worse than Kenney ever was (NDP wants to revive all the Covid hysteria & lockdowns for Pete’s sake!!!)
Why didn’t Ted Cruz go with him to his hometown?
Ted knows Premier Jason Kenney is a hot potato?
Cruz is not on that committee.
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