EnSys

<a href="http://www.ensysenergy.com/about.php" target="blank">EnSys Energy</a> has worked with ExxonMobil, BP and <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120510/koch-industries-brothers-tar-sands-bitumen-heavy-oil-flint-pipelines-refinery-alberta-canada" target="blank">Koch Industries</a>, which own oil sands production facilities and refineries in the Midwest that process heavy Canadian crude oil. Imperial Oil, one of Canada's largest oil sands producers, is a subsidiary of Exxon.

<a href="http://www.icfi.com/markets/energy/fuels-markets#tab-2-clients" target="_blank">ICF International</a> works with pipeline and oil companies but doesn't list specific clients on its website. It declined to comment on the Keystone, referring questions to the State Department.

EnSys president Martin Tallett said he couldn't talk about the proposed pipeline, but he pointed out that in addition to working for the oil industry, his company also works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy and the World Bank.

"We don't do advocacy," Tallett said. "Our goal is to tell it like it is, to tell the way we see it… If we were the pet of government agencies or oil companies, the other side wouldn't come to us."

<img src="/bdf581fd-650e-5bbf-b958-3ae0642a2c81.jpg"/>(From the EnSys Energy website)

The State Department did not respond to questions about the 2,000-page <a href="http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/draftseis/index.htm" target="_blank">Environmental Impact Statement</a> (EIS) it released on Friday.

The EIS covers many issues, including the proposed pipeline's impact on wildlife, water resources and economic development. But the section of the report that has drawn the most attention is the <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/609322-keystone-xl-dseis-2013-v1.html#document/p102/a24" target="_blank">market analysis</a>, which projects that if the Keystone isn't built, the industry will use other pipelines and railways to move the oil out of landlocked Alberta.

That conclusion disputes <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/sclefkowitz/andy_stevenson_guest_blog_5_re.html" target="blank">environmentalists' contention</a> that the Alberta-to-Nebraska pipeline would spur additional production in the oil sands, which produce more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional crude oil (<a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120522/adam-brandt-tar-oil-sands-canada-europe-low-carbon-fuel-directive-greenhouse-gases" target="blank">23 percent</a> on average according to a report commissioned by the European Union, and <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/609322-keystone-xl-dseis-2013-v1.html#document/p22/a94023" target="_blank">17 percent</a> as reported in the EIS).

<h2><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/martintallettensysenergy" title="Martin Tallett"> Martin Tallett</a></h2>

<dd class="title">President at EnSys Energy</dd>

<dd> Greater Boston Area | Oil & Energy </dd>

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<dt class="current">Current:</dt>

<dd class="current-content"> President & Owner at EnSys Energy </dd>

<dd class="past-content">Project Manager at Gordian Associates, European Supply Coordinator at AMOCO Europe, Project Development Engineer, Coordinator of the Refinery Cap...</dd>

<dt class="education">Education:</dt>

<dd class="education-content"> University of Nottingham </dd>

<dt class="summary">Summary:</dt>

<dd class="summary-content">Founder and head of EnSys Energy, a successful consulting practice specializing in quantitative approaches to petroleum industry market, refining...</dd>

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