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FBN’s Rich Edson on efforts to gain approval of the Keystone Pipeline by the Administration.
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It Canada's minister of natural resource is Joe Oliver is in Houston Texas making the push for the Keystone Pipeline which will send oil from Canada to Texas.
Rich -- is right there -- -- development.
-- -- outlined on the cell facility here where the -- minister toward minister natural resources from Canada toward earlier today part of a push.
-- Canadian officials to help get this Keystone Pipeline to -- By the US government here at this particular facility they do refine.
Some of the heavy crude that comes from Canada already here and name would feed directly from the Keystone Pipeline.
If it were approved by the State Department and eventually -- now we've talked to.
Via natural resources minister and asked him.
It's true that if this -- -- was did not by the US government that that would actually hurt US Canadian relations he.
Wouldn't exactly go there but he did say that certainly couldn't hurt.
That is -- Paramount importance to Canada and extremely important -- the United States as well so we don't want anything.
Two to jeopardize that relationship.
Nevertheless we think this project is important.
It's a win win.
For both our countries it's advantageous.
-- Canadians and Americans.
And -- we hope by the administration -- She's expected the Obama administration will make its decision sometime this summer real.
Political -- that the president has -- -- here on one side you've got unions wanted to build this on the other side you've -- environmentalists.
Who are strongly opposed to it for president.
-- -- -- highlighted his administration has.
Presided over an area our time period of unprecedented -- oil production on one hand.
But wanting to tackle carbon emissions and climate change on the other hand.
It something's gotta be very careful about probably a reason why this is -- -- -- so long State Department process now in what's called the open comment period for the next 45 days or so.
And again that final decision expected.
Sometime this summer.
Back -- you -- accurate such -- more on the.
