OIL ABOARD

摘要

With his canadian province reeling from the oil nosedive, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice spent early February in the U.S. trying to drum up support for TransCanada Corp.'s controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Canadian officials say the $8 billion project will raise the price of Alberta's oil sands petroleum by reducing shipping costs to Gulf Coast refineries, but President Barack Obama has vowed to veto the Keystone bill approved by a GOP-dominated Congress. "This is not the genius of free trade at work," former federal cabinet minister Prentice, 58, told a crowd at the Harvard Club of New York, referringto some U.S. jurisdictions' plans to exclude Alberta oil.