Government of Alberta issues job ads to promote keystone XL project

Sunday’s edition of the New York Times featured an ad paid for by the government of Alberta promoting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.  

According to CBC News, the 30,000 dollar ad is the latest move by Alberta to push its case for the 1,800 kilometre pipeline that would bring oil form Alberta’s oil sands through the U.S. to refineries on the Gulf Coast in Texas for shipment to users all over the world. 

The ad reinforced the importance of jobs that the pipeline would create for the American people, as well getting oil from a neighbour country would be “the right choice”. 

A spokesperson for the Alberta government stated that the ad was a response to an editorial the New York Times ran last week persuading President Obama to reject the Keystone project. 

The president is expected to make his final decision about the pipeline in the coming months.

Flickr Photo by: PremierofAlberta

STORY WRITTEN BY: NIKITA SMITH