TransCanada CEO Russ Girling recently told Financial Post reporter Claudio Cattaneo that he would “love to have a dialogue with environmental groups about actually reducing GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions.”

“By forcing oil companies to look at these alternatives, doing it by rail, we are actually increasing GHG emissions. But nobody will engage in a dialogue with me because (Keystone) is too big of a boom for them, for their ability to raise money. They’d rather keep this symbol.”

— TransCanada CEO Russ Girling

The All Risk, No Reward Coalition, chaired by Nebraska rancher and landowner Randy Thompson, has taken Mr. Girling up on his invitation, and in a letter sent to him today invited Girling to a public forum to discuss reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The full text of the letter is below.

Letter to TransCanada CEO Russ Girling