China complains of cold shoulder from Canada on oil deals
News Desk
unhappy about the chilly reception they are getting from Ottawa, a top
Chinese oil executive told media Friday, after withdrawing from a
Canadian pipeline project amid delays.
Song Yiwu, vice president of China National Petroleum Corp., the
parent of PetroChina, said Ottawa should have done more to help along
a four-billion dollar pipeline project linking Canada's booming oil
sands to a Pacific port.
Delays in starting the project reflected an unwillingness to allow
Chinese firms into the Canadian markets, he said.
"The environment is not comfortable. We tried to come here and we
can't," Song told the daily Globe and Mail during an investment
conference in Calgary.
"We sincerely wanted to do something and open up a new market for
Canadian crude, but Canada doesn't want to open up its own markets to
us. So we cannot cooperate, and I really don't know how to help," he
said.
AFP
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