Canadian oil is now a U.S. election issue | CBC News
McConaghy warned that there will be more lawsuits if Biden
tries killing it, and he cautioned the pipeline fight could last well
past the election.
tries killing it, and he cautioned the pipeline fight could last well
past the election.
Why that announcement
One
possible reason for the announcement now: Biden is currently working to
consolidate the support of skeptical progressives as he moves into the
general election.
He’s
set up task forces to build the party platform with supporters of Sen.
Bernie Sanders; the climate-change group, for instance, includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first-term lawmaker who’s boosted the so-called Green New Deal and blasted Keystone XL.
Biden
has also promised to rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day
in office, and might now point to his anti-pipeline position in the
context of that debate.