Canada’s Oil Sands
Guests
Cassie Doyle
Consul General of Canada in San Francisco
Jason Mark
Editor, Sierra Magazine
Carl Pope
Former Executive Director, Sierra Club
Alex Pourbaix
President of Energy and Oil Pipelines, TransCanada
Summary
The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America’s Gulf Coast refineries.
Cassie Doyle, Consul General, Canada; Former Canadian Deputy Minister of Natural Resources
Jason Mark, Earth Island Institute
Carl Pope, Chairman, The Sierra Club
Alex Pourbaix, President of Energy and Oil Pipelines, TransCanada
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