Thursday, November 29, 2012

Rice Has Up to $600K Stake in Keystone Company

Potential secretary of state candidate Susan Rice owns up to $600,000 of stock in the Canadian company pushing to build the Keystone XL Pipeline, according to her financial disclosure reports.
OneEarth reports that Rice, Obama’s preferred candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton, owns millions of dollars of stock in oil companies, including TransCanada, the company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
TransCanada is currently awaiting approval from the State Department on whether it can build the pipeline, which would stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The project is reviled by environmentalists and would likely be Rice’s first major decision as Secretary of State, should she be confirmed.

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/rice-has-up-to-600k-stake-in-keystone-company/

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