- Pres. Obama has been pushing Canada to improve its green energy credentials and improve its environmental performance to gain approval of the Keystone XL pipeline (NYSE:TRP), but the World Energy Council’s Energy Sustainability Index suggests the U.S. is behind Canada on sustainable energy development.
- Canada places sixth in WEC’s latest ranking, up four spots from last year’s survey, while the U.S. trails far behind at no. 15; Canada also edged out Norway and Australia, which have comparable resource-based economies and regulatory regimes.
- "One of the things the index does is it cuts through the political rhetoric,” says a consultant who collaborated with the WEC on the report.