Russ Girling has clearly had enough.
The CEO of TransCanada (the firm trying to get the OK for the Keystone XL Pipeline) took direct rhetorical aim at the president for the latter’s bizarre departure from the truth last week on the pipeline.
Here’s what the president said (Financial Post, Canada):
His exact words: “Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land down to the Gulf where it will be sold everywhere else,” the president said in Yangon, Myanmar. “It doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gas prices.”
Girling responded this afternoon…and he took no prisoners (Financial Post):
The notion that this oil is going to get exported is pure fabrication by those that are opposed to our project
Girling also noted the improbability of Keystone as an export pipeline given its terminus – the Gulf Coast, which imports over 4 million barrels of oil a day. Oops.
Unfortunately, the president – along with one of his earliest backers, Tim Kaine – seems more interested in pleasing billionaire radical Tom Steyer than keeping the facts straight.
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