The question we all have for Hillary:
Where do you stand on Keystone xl pipeline? Green groups and eco-activists are trying to to get her to take a stand.
A coalition of 30 green groups will send a letter to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday, pressing her to publicly oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Hill obtained an early copy of the letter and a press release, which asks Clinton if she will stand with them against the oil-sands pipeline. The Center for Biological Diversity is one of the 30 conservation groups that signed on to the letter, which will officially be sent to Clinton on Wednesday.
"Secretary Clinton, will you stand with us against Keystone XL?" the groups ask.
"Given your longstanding advocacy for the environment and the importance of battling the climate crisis, your involvement would lend an important voice to the struggle against this dangerous pipeline and in favor of energy sources that don’t threaten future generations of Americans," the letter states.
The added pressure on Clinton to take a side is a taste of what the likely presidential hopeful has in store as 2016 draws nearer.
In 2012, former President Clinton came out in favor of constructing the pipeline. I wrote about it
here.
TransCanada's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline should be built using an alternate route around the environmentally sensitive Sand Hills of Nebraska, former President Bill Clinton said.
“The extra cost of running it is infinitesimal compared to the revenues” the pipeline could produce, Clinton said today at an energy conference in the Washington suburbs. “I think we should embrace it and develop a stakeholder-driven system of high standards for doing the work.”
Copy of letter is here (pdf)
Should get interesting.