Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CBC Oilsands Mea Culpa

I couldn't help but notice the CBC's Fred Langan cozying up to the Alberta oilsands, now that we have tens of thousands of barrels of offshore oil washing up along the gulf coast. While it may produce carbon dioxide, which you may or may not even consider pollution, oilsand production is far safer than offshore drilling. Even the CBC, the bane of Alberta, is beginning to realize what a good thing we have. If the Yankees start freezing offshore production, or new offshore exploration, that will decrease their domestic supply and raise the price of crude. That will benefit Alberta.

It is morbid to think that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could actually benefit Canada, but suddenly even the CBC is doing a mea culpa on the oilsands. They even called them the "oilsands" instead of the "tarsands", which is often an indicator to judge a pundit's negative or positive view of this great Canadian resource.

Alberta rocks!

10 comments:

  1. Is there a link, or was it a news story?

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  2. It was on CBC Newsworld. I saw it on TV, not sure where you would find the link.

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  3. Let the eastern bastards freeze to death in the dark or keep buying their oil from the jihadist financiers like they do now.

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  4. Hey Obama, how dirty is our oil now?
    Sack of shit.
    Hope and change looks a lot like Katrina to me.

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  5. Evan Solomon was talking to three guys from Alberta who are on a tour across canada informing canadians about Alberta oilsands and the things they have already started working in a more environmental way.

    BTW Powell, I think that Quebec gets their oil from dictator HUGO CHAVEZ.

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  6. Solomon interviewed 3 reps from the oil sands who are in Ottawa to explain the benefits.

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  7. Build a pipeline to the West Coast and sell oil overseas so we are not irrevocably tied to the changeable follies of American domestic policy. Similarly we will not have ties to Eastern Canada - to the extent that we do - which cannot be replaced. Western Canada needs to plan for our inevitable independence.

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  8. Gary, I live on the west coast, and I adamantly support being part of Canada under all circumstances. I feel the same way about western separatists as I do the Bloc.

    I am Canadian first.

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  9. Saskatchewan's natural resource industries, including oil and gas, are just starting to cook, too.

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  10. I also support a united Canada where all Provinces contribute equally. That is why I want a referendum by the ROC asking if quebec should be kicked out of our confederation.

    Rob C

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