Analysts Spill on Whether Energy Review Focused on Infrastructure to Affect Keystone

摘要

Analysts are divided over how an administration-wide review of energy policy that will focus on energy infrastructure might affect the Obama administration's decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The review, ordered via a presidential memo Jan. 9, provides the "perfect cover" to delay a decision on the pipeline until after the midterm congressional election in November, according to Steven Paget, an analyst for Calgary, Canada-based FirstEnergy Capital.