Debates over Canadian oil pipelines are going to “look silly” compared with future U.S-Canadian discussions over water, the Canadian envoy to Washington said. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year visited Washington make his case for the Keystone XL oil pipeline planned from Alberta oil fields. TransCanada’s planned pipeline has been the source of heated debate on both sides of the border, though Canadian Ambassador to the United States Gary Doer said future debates will be over fresh water. “I think five years from now we will be spending a lot of our time diplomatically and a lot of our work on dealing with water,” he said in an interview with the Edmonton Journal, published Monday. Doer said the United States and Canada have claims to 20 percent of the fresh water in the world in the five Great Lakes and share borders […]