CALGARY - Alberta's trade envoy to Washington predicts the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline won't be written until after next November's U.S. presidential election.
In the meantime, former Calgary mayor Dave Bronconnier says he's working hard to sell the proposed seven-billion dollar project to Americans.
The pipeline would move crude from Alberta's oilsands to refineries along the Texas Gulf coast.
Last month, the Obama administration denied TransCanada a permit to build citing the potential environmental threat to a crucial U.S. water system.
But TransCanada was also urged to submit a new route for the pipeline -- which the company has said it will do.
Speaking on a Calgary radio show yesterday, Bronconnier said he keeps telling Americans about all the badly needed jobs the project would create, and how it would give them a more secure energy source.
