Please urge President Obama to support construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canada to refineries primarily along the Gulf Coast. This project would immediately create 20,000 jobs along the pipeline route.
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THE CASE FOR ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger.
A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta. If activists could “shut in” Canadian bitumen, limiting the ability of oil companies to sell the product, they argued, perhaps petroleum firms wouldn’t be able to fully develop the oil sands.
The successful recovery of oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible tight shales with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling does not mean further research and development is unnecessary, experts told a US House Committee on Apr. 17. They suggested that the estimated hundreds of millions of barrels of potential US oil resources could climb into the trillions if R&D to tap massive oil shale deposits in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming were to get stronger government backing.
The mild-mannered ranking member of the House Science Committee took an unusually pointed jab at her Republican counterparts yesterday, accusing them of treating fossil fuels differently from renewable energy research as they push for more unconventional oil production in the United States.
WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- Tapping into unconventional oil resources in the United States could spur economic growth, though a critic said it won't do much to lower energy prices. The U.S. House Committee on Science, Technology and Space heard testimony on domestic energy resources. High energy prices in the United States have sparked political debate.
Karen Harbert, president and chief executive officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said tapping into unconventional oil resources would boost employment, lower fuel prices and bolster U.S. energy security.
Members Critical of Administration Actions That Impede Oil Production and Job Growth
Washington D.C. – Today in a hearing of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology examining technology and policy pathways to develop more domestic unconventional oil resources, witnesses urged the Obama Administration to pursue policies that will encourage expanded production.
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