This week, Kenney hosted U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia who chairs the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Both spoke Tuesday of the hope to create a North American energy alliance to become less dependent on oil and gas from other parts of the world.
“We’re talking about this, this North American energy and climate consortium, and what it does. For the first time, we’re able to use the resources that we have, because we do it cleaner than anybody in the world,” said Manchin. “What the United States and Canada produces, whether it be natural gas, whether it’s extracting oil, whatever we do it’s the cleanest in the world — whatever we replace will be the cleanest in the world.
United States Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia during his two-day tour of Alberta. Manchin spoke at the McDougall Centre in Calgary on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.Manchin, while a Democrat, is seen as a centrist that has taken a conservative stance on many issues while in office. He was a defender of the now-defunct Keystone XL pipeline that would have moved hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a day from near Edmonton to Nebraska. That pipeline, however, was cancelled by U.
The senator’s visit is much different than many other high-profile tours of Alberta’s energy facilities in the past several years, as most have been environmentalists opposed to expanding oil and gas capacity.Article content
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