Canada’s Natural Resources Minister said his nation wants to work with the U.S. to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, including those from Alberta’s oil sands, the source of crude to be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline, reports Bloomberg News.
Canada is pursuing policies to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from using oil sands to the same level as gasoline refined from traditional crude, Minister Joe Oliver said, according to a Bloomberg News article by Mark Drajem.
After meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in Washington, Oliver said his nation has agreed to curb emissions, in line with pledges made by the U.S., and the offer isn’t a concession to win approval for the pipeline that will carry oil sands crude to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries, according to the article.
