Press release - January 18, 2018
18 January 2018 (EDMONTON) —In response to TransCanada’s announcement of confirmed shippers on its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, Mike Hudema, Climate & Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Canada, said:
18 January 2018 (EDMONTON) —In response to TransCanada’s announcement of confirmed shippers on its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, Mike Hudema, Climate & Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Canada, said:
“Twenty-year commitments on a pipeline that faces a number of significant hurdles shows that pipeline proponents are in a state of denial. TransCanada's grandstanding doesn't change the fact that Keystone XL is facing ballooning costs, uncertainty in the fossil fuel economy, court challenges and a fierce on-the-ground resistance from Indigenous communities and landowners that will ensure this pipeline never gets built.
“The Alberta government's decision to work with the Trump administration to push through a pipeline that endangers the water supplies and climate of millions of people is both disappointing and reckless. The government needs to ditch the prehistoric energy positions and start getting Alberta back on track by investing in technologies and energies of the future, not the past.”
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Contact:
Jesse Firempong, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada, 778-996-6549, 