“While we keep talking about pipelines, energy projects and social licence, the United States has vastly expanded domestic hydrocarbon production in the last decade. Under President Barack Obama’s watch, America constructed and brought into operation 19,200 kilometres of new crude oil pipelines between 2010 and 2014.”

"At the same time, large American foundations like the Tides Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund have helped fund anti-oilsands and anti-pipeline campaigns in Canada"