WHY DOES RUPERT MURDOCH OPPOSE THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE/
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/02/18/murdoch-reveals-keystone-xl-opposition-via-twitter/
Billionaire media titan Rupert Murdoch took aim at the transnational Keystone XL pipeline, revealing his opposition to the controversial oil route, in a multi-Tweet rebuke of U.S. energy and economic policy that began on Friday.
The magnate, whose media empire News Corp. owns FOX News Channel and The Wall Street Journal, took an environmentalist view of the proposed pipeline, criticizing the “heavy, dirty oil” that it would carry from Canada’s oil sands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. The southern leg of the pipeline is under construction. The northern route, which needs federal approval to cross the Canadian-U.S. border, has been embroiled in a political war over its economic and environmental impact.
Murdoch has been a vocal proponent of developing U.S. oil and gas resources and a critic of renewable energy. In August, he called shale gas the “greatest news of the decade.”
“Gas means half carbon emissions and no need for ridiculous windmills,” he tweeted.
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