{"id":3287,"date":"2013-05-20T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:35:30","slug":"canadian-government-pursuing-aggressive-lobbying-push-on-keystone-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/05\/canadian-government-pursuing-aggressive-lobbying-push-on-keystone-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tar-sands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3288\" alt=\"tar-sands\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tar-sands.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tar-sands.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tar-sands-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>This dramatic spending increase is a result of an increased lobbying effort the government is planning, which includes high-profile ad buys and dispatching a series of officials to reiterate talking points that the pipeline will increase U.S. energy security and provide us with thousands of home-grown jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Their expanded lobbying efforts include Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper traveling to New York City to speak with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and participate in roundtables with American business leaders. During his Q&amp;A session with the CFR, Mr. Harper advocated for approval of the pipeline, insisting it would add \u201calmost nothing globally\u201d to carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Harper\u2019s claim just isn\u2019t true \u2014 extracting crude from the oil sands is an incredibly energy intensive process that emits 3 to 4 times more greenhouse gases than producing conventional crude oil, making it one of the world\u2019s dirtiest forms of fuels. Approving Keystone would more than double the production of carbon-intensive tar sands by 2024, leading to an increase in greenhouse gases equivalent to adding 8 million cars on the road every year. Without the pipeline, tar sands production is expected to fall flat by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/05\/20\/2033231\/canadian-government-pursuing-aggressive-lobbying-push-on-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"blank\">Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase is a result of an increased lobbying effort the government is planning, which includes high-profile ad buys and dispatching a series of officials to reiterate talking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,257,22],"tags":[148,614,1023,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}