MANCHIN CHEERS CANADIAN ENERGY
Joe Manchin, the Democrat senator from West Virginia, said he wants to invite Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and a delegation from the province to testify before the Senate Energy Committee on Capitol Hill to inform U.S. lawmakers about “what you do…and how well you do it” in a bid to steer the U.S. away from oil imports from OPEC nations. Manchin, who has decried the Biden administration’s decision to effectively kill Keystone XL, also told reporters in Calgary late yesterday afternoon that he “can’t guarantee” any Canadian company would be willing to invest in a project like that again, nor that the White House would reconsider that type of cross-border pipeline. “That rubbed me wrong,” Manchin said about the White House looking to OPEC nations instead of North American oil sources.