‘Ethical’ oil strategy failed on Keystone, say observers

OTTAWA — The stunning Obama administration decision to put the brakes on a major pipeline expansion project linking Canadian oil to Texas refineries suggests the federal government needs to revisit its multimillion-dollar lobbying and marketing strategy to promote Canada as an “ethical” source of energy, observers and industry stakeholders said Friday.

“It clearly didn’t work,” said Michael Levi, a senior fellow from the Council of Foreign Relations, an influential New York-based think-tank that does research on foreign policy issues in the United States. Read more…