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| 2012-01-12 |
| ...It is a cliché in journalism to declare metaphorical wars at the drop of a news release. In this case, it looks like war is exactly what Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver launched Monday in an unprecedented open letter warning that Canada will not allow “environmental and other radical groups” to “hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.” Joe Oliver’s opening line in the letter gets straight to the point. “Canada is on the edge of a historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the United States or to continue with the status quo.” The translation is simple. If Canadian oil isn’t good enough for Barack Obama, then Canada will sell it to China. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Looks like problems "THE world leader in the wind turbine industry, Danish company Vestas, says it would cut 2335 jobs by the end of the year as part of a previously announced savings package" Then 1600 jobs extra in USA. Problem- Production Tax Credit (PTC) not extended. Canada is spot on. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-12 18:20 |
| #2 The people wanting to stop the Canadian pipeline to its west coast (the alternative pipeline. if Keystone isn't built) are the usual suspects: liberals, progressive, and greenies. Many are non-Canadians, and the greenies orchestrating the opposition are up to their usual tricks to let these foreigners gum up Canadian politics. If I were a Canadian I'd be mad as hell. The foreigners include not just greenies, but (you guessed it) certain investors with an interest in seeing that the pipeline isn't built. They're working behind the scenes with their usual NGO allies being used as cats-paws. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-12 12:33 |
| #1 Meanwhile, there is a quiet movement in the US senate to, with minimal mess and fluff, take the decision away from Barry and give it the all ahead full. Quiet bipartisanship. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-12 12:23 |