Dwindling Support for Keystone Should “Concern” Pipeline Proponents: Pollster

The latest read of U.S. public opinion on the politically charged Keystone XL pipeline project suggests support has dropped but remains in majority territory.

Ottawa-based polling firm Nanos Research Thursday released results from a telephone survey of 1,000 Americans between Feb. 20 and March 3, and its findings indicate support for Keystone XL stood at 62.3%. That’s down from 74.4% support in a survey it conducted in April 2013.

Further, 57.2% of Americans had a positive or “somewhat” positive impression of the project, which as envisaged by its proponent, TransCanada Corp., would ship heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to refineries in the Gulf Coast. This, too, is down, from a 70% positive impression in the year-earlier poll.

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