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US Ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman, has asked Canada to have more patience on the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the US Barack Obama has failed to make a decision in the past five years. According to Heyman, the American State Department just has a lot of homework to do before making the final decision, as it has to scrutinize roughly 3 million public comments on the project.
Addressing the Canada 2020 think-tank forum in Ottawa on Monday, Heyman said that “we don’t have memo departments in the State Department that are reading these.” He added that “this is a very, very large and significant number of comments and we have to process it and it’s going to take some time.” He elaborated that almost half of the comments have come as part of a “national interest” consultation following a January report by the State Department. He alleged that a vast majority of the comments seem to be duplicates. The officials revealed in January that “of this total number of submissions, an estimated 1,496,396 submissions (99% of the total) were form letters sponsored by (non-governmental organizations).” It was added that “the remaining 16,853 submissions were identified as unique submissions.”
Heyman reiterated conclusively that Canada will just have to wait for Obama’s decision. He said that “we understand this is a serious issue for Canada. We understand it’s a serious issue for Canadians and those who participate in the oilfields,” and added that so “this is also a really serious issue for Americans and we’ve taken this very seriously.”
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