Amid tension, US senators on Canada oil sands mission

摘要

Vancouver-Three US senators spent September 17 in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan amid growing tensions and uncertainty over the future of oil sandssourced products in the US energy mix. All three-¨CSouth Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss and North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan-are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is at the center of a Sierra Club lawsuit accusing the Defense Department of violating the US Energy Dependence and Security Act of 2007 for contracting fuel from the oil sands.