Guess who's the major stakeholder in Canada's oil sands? Of course, it's the Kochs

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/20/1286250/-Guess-who-s-the-major-stakeholder-in-Canada-s-oil-sands-Of-course-it-s-the-nbsp-Kochs?#

guess who's coming to dinner?,

Like perfect movie villains, the Koch brothers have their fingers in everything, but secretly. Or not so secretly, anymore.

You might expect the biggest lease owner in Canada's oil sands, or tar sands, to be one of the international oil giants, like Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell. But that isn't the case. The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.

The Koch Industries subsidiary holds leases on 1.1 million acres -- an area nearly the size of Delaware -- in the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, according to an activist group that studied Alberta provincial records. The Post confirmed the group’s findings with Alberta Energy, the provincial government’s ministry of energy. Separately, industry sources familiar with oil sands leases said Koch’s lease holdings could be closer to two million acres.The company with the next biggest collection of oil sands leases is Conoco Phillips.

While the Kochs aren't the primary beneficiaries—they haven't reserved space in the potential pipeline and are not partnering with TransCanada—they would benefit handsomely from the infrastructure put in place by the pipeline.

and now we know why this madman rush to get this going on the right, does not explain that on the left unless they too are in the koch barn, we don't know but we do now know why the hard press.

Exploiting their extensive tar sands holdings would only be made easier—and more profitable!— IFG says, if Keystone XL is approved.That could certainly help explain the Republican obsession with the Keystone XL pipeline approval, beyond their base love for fossil fuels and environmental degradation.

all the lies we have heard about the pipeline and it's plus's for America when in reality we are just a worm hole for oil to reach the other continents, non of it will be at your corner gas station on mon. night at 7pm of any year.  we are being the back the Koch's walk on to get more money.

they spent hundreds of millions last election now they want it back in time for the next elections, they want to buy your country, is it for sale?