Sentences with phrase «pitted pipeline construction»
, writing to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton late last year, pitted pipeline construction against clean energy, asserting that «proponents of this pipeline would be wiser to invest instead in job - creating clean energy projects, like renewable power, energy efficiency or advanced vehicles and fuels.»
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The latest economic impacts of the pipeline constraints come amid an intensifying spat between Alberta and British Columbia over the construction of the Trans Mountain project, pitting arguments of economic impact against the importance of protecting coastlines and limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.