Ken Green, Senior Director for the Fraser Institute on Canada as “energy superpower”.

Sun News BREAKING: US State Department has approved the Keystone XL pipeline plan as being environmentally sound.
Full (draft) report here.

Well, maybe…

It is time Canadians became aware of the giant trap being set in Washington over Keystone. The short version is this: The president approves Keystone, greatly expanding the flow of Canadian oil sands production into the United States. In return, however, Canada has no choice but to accept a carbon tax at home as part of a grand bargain.

….but it would make more sense to buy off BC. Or wait four years.

Sure looks like it to me:

…
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared…

More from a few days ago.

A Texas proposal;

Some of us in Texas believe the governor should outlaw fracking in New York. It is a nasty business. In fact, maybe he should outlaw any kind of drilling. It is all dangerous. And we might not mind if every state except Texas outlawed fracking.

Related: They might outlaw those corporate offices while they’re at it.

… as recorded by lake ecosystems;

This clearly demonstrates that the [polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons] “pollution” associated with oil sands development is insignificant. The PAH concentrations in most of lakes in the study area are unremarkable when compared to remote lakes in the boreal forest in the 18th and 19th century and are more similar to modern remote lakes than they are to urban and agriculturally developed areas.

h/t CL

Eric Anderson: Japan is reverting back to nuclear power. (audio file)

Youtube cracks down on F-word;

This isn’t McAleer’s first run-in with YouTube over his work dispelling environmental activists’ fear-mongering claims.
“I decided to make ‘FrackNation’ documentary because Josh Fox – the director of the anti-fracking documentary ‘GasLand’ forced YouTube to remove one of my previous films challenging his inaccurate claims about ‘burning water.’ It seems that anti-fracking activists don’t want debate or dissent – they want to silence criticism and questions.”

WFP;

The NDP government, which has long sung the praises of northern hydro development, has asked the province’s Public Utilities Board to review two proposed projects with a price tag of $13.4 billion to determine if there is a better alternative, such as electricity generated from natural gas.
The board will do a review, though it has already said Manitoba Hydro, the government-owned public utility, could build a natural gas-fired plant to supply Manitobans with power cheaper than that from the two northern dams.
The NDP is still saying publicly the Keeyask and Conawapa projects represent a major economic-development opportunity, one that could propel the province’s economy for decades to come.
But the review has the feel of political cover for a government looking for a way out of a difficult situation. The NDP is in a tough spot, which could become a politician’s nightmare — rising electricity prices at home while Manitoba Hydro is financing expensive projects to generate power for consumers elsewhere who no longer want to buy it.

Vivian Krause;

The downside of the U.S. monopoly on Canadian exports is huge. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources told the B.C. Business Council in a speech Tuesday that the Canadian economy loses out on $18-billion annually – $50-million every day – because Canadian oil is sold into the U.S. market below market value.
For the Canadians on the front lines of environmental conservation initiatives, it’s all about saving the bears, caribou, salmon and so forth. But for the U.S. foundations that fund these initiatives, this is about oil.
The largest environmental initiatives in Canada are the Great Bear Rainforest on the north coast of B.C., the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative. In all three, the big funder is an American foundation.
[…]
The main funder of the Presidential Climate Project is the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), the same foundation that is behind-the-scenes on the campaign to block the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and ban oil tanker traffic – but only on the strategic coast of British Columbia and in the Canadian arctic. Never mind the dozens of tankers that import oil to the U.S. on a daily basis, the Rockefeller Brothers are only against the tankers that would export Canadian oil to Asia.

Read the whole thing, then forward to your greenie friends. Providing you have any left.

Curiously, someone at Tides Canada also visited Krause’s blog this week, downloading an astonishing 170 documents, according to her records.

He even apologizes for Dangerous David, who has almost certainly wrecked the Liberals’ chances in the Calgary Centre bye-election..
The original Bobbety.

H/T to LC Bennett.
Last week – Take that, Alberta: Christy Clark says B.C. will be Canada’s number one economy

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark took aim at Alberta Tuesday in an election-style speech where she boasted her province doesn’t need oil to be the country’s top economic generator…Clark said her government’s year-old jobs plan, which focuses on increasing trade with China and Asia

This week – B.C. energy minister mystified after Ottawa nixes key takeover for province’s natural gas strategy

“A last-minute decision by the Harper government to reject a takeover of Canadian gas producer Progress Energy by Malaysian state-owned energy giant Petronas pulled the rug out from under B.C. Energy Minister Rich Coleman, who viewed the $5.9-billion deal as one of the catalysts for B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas strategy.”

We’re not running out of oil.

Yesterday:

Let Them Eat Cheese

Now:

Fracking banned by Quebec government
The new Parti Quebecois government hasn’t wasted any time hinting about a long-term ban on the shale gas industry.

A progressive in (in)action:

No Fracking, We’re French
Once again, Hollande chooses ideology over prosperity.