Hillary definitely may or may not support Keystone XL

Just about everyone in politics seems to have an opinion about the Keystone XL pipeline—except Hillary Clinton…

As the White House deliberates, the former secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner has stayed particularly quiet about whether she supports constructing the 1,179-mile pipeline to transport oil sands from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. That hasn’t changed, even as debate within the Democratic party over whether to authorize the project burst into public view this week. After Delaware Senator Tom Carper decided Tuesday to allow a vote on the pipeline in the Senate, environmental activists took over his Washington lobby in protest by singing songs and chanting.

All the noise isn’t prompting a peep out of Clinton. Here’s how she answered a question on the project in a June interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper:

“Our relationship is so much bigger and more important than any one decision—even one as important as this is. Canada is critical to who we are and what we hope to do together in the future. We have no better relationship. [But] this particular decision is a very difficult one because there are so many factors at play. I can’t really comment at great length because I had responsibility for it and it’s been passed on and it wouldn’t be appropriate, but I hope that Canadians appreciate that the United States government—the Obama administration—is trying to get it right. And getting it right doesn’t mean you will agree or disagree with the decision, but that it will be one based on the best available evidence and all of the complex local, state, federal, interlocking laws and concerns.”

When pressed on her “personal views,” she replied: “I can’t respond.”