Alberta premier returns to D.C. to lobby for Keystone XL pipeline

WASHINGTON -- Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she's not a proponent of any individual resource project, even as she works the Washington corridors in favour of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Alberta government paid to take out a large ad in the Washington Post newspaper today that called the proposed $7-billion pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast the "choice of reason."

Yet Redford maintains it is industry's job to sell any given project, not hers.

Redford's assurances didn't appear to soothe a group of anti-Keystone protesters who infiltrated her speech today in the U.S. capital and disrupted the proceedings.

The premier shrugged off the disturbance, saying the opponents have valid concerns.

But Redford, who meets Wednesday with a number of senators and members of Congress, says environmental concerns are being addressed and both sides of the debate need to hear the facts.

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Source: ctvnews.ca
Author: CP