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New Poll: Reducing Foreign Oil Trumps Greenhouse Gas

Nik Nanos

A new poll on the XL Keystone Pipeline Project conducted by Public Policy Scholar Nik Nanos suggests that energy security trumps the concern about greenhouse gas emission among both Americans and Canadians.

New Poll: Reducing Foreign Oil Trumps Greenhouse Gas

A new study examining energy policy suggests that energy security trumps the concern about greenhouse gas emission among both Americans and Canadians. The study, completed by Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Nik Nanos, included polling data among Americans and Canadians. Part one of the study release focuses on motivations driving perceptions on energy issues and views of the Keystone XL pipeline. The complete report will be released by the end of May 2013.

Poll: Keystone XL popular, reducing foreign oil seen as more important than global warming by The Wilson Center

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Nik Nanos

Nik Nanos

Global Fellow;
Chair, Nanos Research Group of Companies; Research Associate Professor, The State University of New York, Buffalo
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Canada Institute

The mission of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute is to raise the level of knowledge of Canada in the United States, particularly within the Washington, DC policy community.  Research projects, initiatives, podcasts, and publications cover contemporary Canada, US-Canadian relations, North American political economy, and Canada's global role as it intersects with US national interests.  Read more