To begin the Secretary of State is more than a pipeline carrying Oil Sludge from Canada. In addition, I trust Ambassador Rice to realize how important the topic of global warming is to President Obama. One of the reasons stated in objection to the pipeline from this administration is the dangers of proliferating carbon dioxide as an acceptable by-product in energy production in the USA.
Ms. Rice would have to recuse herself from the proceedings regarding the pipeline. That reality is far more interesting to me than her conflict of interest.
...Rice's holdings in TransCanada Corp., (click here) valued at between $300,000 and $600,000, are listed in a financial disclosure report for 2011 that was filed earlier this year.
The holdings open up Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to criticism from environmentalists at a time when she’s already under fire from Republicans over her descriptions of the attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya.
Green activists are strongly pushing the Obama administration to reject TransCanada’s proposal for the pipeline that would bring oil from Canadian tar sands projects to Gulf Coast refineries....
