Not to forget Jean Luc Pepin, made Minister of the combined portfolios of Energy, and Mines & Resources, who announced in a speech in Alberta, back in the early 1970s: "We should drastically increase our sales of natural gas to the United States-now! Because, in twenty-five to fifty years, we will be heating ourselves from the rays of the sun, and kicking our asses because we did not sell it off while there was still a market for it."
We will shortly be importing our natural gas, in liquified form, from Russian Oil Fields.
(This deal was made by Jean Cruton, about a year ago.) That natural gas will be chilled in Russia, then shipped to Canada in refrigerated ships, where it will be re-processed, either near Sept Isle, or the port of Saint John N.B. ( I really would not want to be living or working, near either).

I think it's past time that Alberta started building that 'firewall', such as our own provincial police force, loyal to Alberta and not the federal Liberal party. If Klein is happy to just coast his way into the sunset maybe it's about time to add some jets to his boat and hasten his departure and opt for someone with more backbone who is willing to fight the feds and tell Upper and Lower Canada to go fly a kite. WTF is "oil companies will have to pay a "technology investment fund" tax, now planned for $200/ton for CO2", as Ezra says "a carbon tax" I wonder how that will play against the Alberta government declaring CO2 a natural resource. Time to overturn our federal dictatorship.

Hey wait a second!

It wasn't that long ago that central Canadian lefties were proclaiming themselves above "War For Oil," and yet here they now are talking about how Alberta must share it wealth with the money-pit socialist provinces.

I guess that happens when gas hits a buck a litre and you've got an SUV to fill.

What next? Exhume Trudeau?

this is a great time to sell the over priced Calgary property, I smell the federal liberals and they are going to screw us royally

>>>What next? Exhume Trudeau?

No need...they never buried the bugger. He lies in his father's mausoleum. He built it with money from the gas station chain he sold the Americans...

Time to dig up all the guns that Albertas buried on their farms and ranches when the gun registry was brought into being. It's time!

Duke: carefull what you say, (the cops in Toronto are now seizing t-shirts with pictures of guns on them.) Bwaahahaha!

dave, LNG is a tried & true technology and has been around for years. Working with it is no more dangerous, methinks, than at any other oil refinery.

But I DO like the idea of turning the "No War for Oil" crap around on those buggars... that will give me something to contemplate during my move tomorrow... too bad my internet won't be hooked up before Wednesday. Oh well, at least I'll get some unpacking done (if I ever get these three last boxes DONE!)

Candace: Yes- LNG is a tried and true technology, but I would not compare it to an oil refinery,(When the power supply goes off in an oil refinery, the process essentially shuts down0 but when the power goes off to the refrigeration system, the LNG expands very rapidly, and sometimes it explodes, with disastrous consequences. (Personally, I was hoping that this country was going to jump on board the International Fusion reactor project- but the huge cost of buying a stake in that, can be better wasted on things like the Gun Registry, and grants to General Motors, Ford, and of course- anything in the province of Quebec......)

I'm beginning to think now that the Libs are finished this time around. Bizarre behavior lately, and no winning campaign issue in sight. In comparison, I see evidence that the Tories are finally getting it together, what with the tv ads and all the ammo Paulie has given them agianst him...

http://www.ccnr.org/exports_3.html

...In January 1982, two weeks before the bid deadline, Pierre Trudeau visited Mexico for the third time in a year, along with MP Roy MacLaren. MacLaren was parliamentary assistant to Energy Minister Marc Lalonde, and was known at that time as Canada's "unofficial CANDU salesman"...

http://www.aecl.ca/index.asp?layid=3&csid=404&menuid=519&miid=694

Hydrogen Economy
Nations are assessing the feasibility of converting their transportation systems from a fossil fuel base to that of electrolytic hydrogen. For such an initiative to succeed while reducing air pollution and CO2 emissions, hydrogen-based fuel must be produced by a non-emitting source such as nuclear. ACRs are well placed to produce the large-scale electricity required by high-efficiency electrolysis cells to produce hydrogen for fuel cell technology.

Oil Sands Recovery
There are estimated reserves of 1.6 trillion barrels of oil in Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands. Recent studies have shown the promise of the ACR in the recovery of these oil sands by providing economic steam for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAG-D) technology, with side production of electricity and electrolytic hydrogen. This would help unlock a huge North American energy source while displacing the use of natural gas and making it available for export. Additional benefits are the reduction in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.