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Originally Posted by flar
It's Canada's energy, which happens to be located in the Athabasca region and has made Alberta rich, but won't forever.
Short answer for Alberta and Saskatchewan: diversify beyond bitumen and potash. Nobody is stopping you.
Very little sympathy in the ROC. Even less appetite for this to dominate federal politics ad nauseum.
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100% with what you said. Also the appetite outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan for pipelines is almost non existent and the whole "pipelines are safe" keeps getting proven wrong. Most Canadians don't want to get the oil to market faster but get off the whole finite oil extraction game all together.
source: wpengine.net
The rupture occurred in central Arkansas, about 20 miles north of Little Rock, as Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline spilled thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil — the same Alberta crude the Keystone pipeline would carry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling it a “major spill” as officials from the EPA and Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) are currently conducting an onsite investigation while ExxonMobil continues its cleanup efforts.
The company said more than 12,000 barrels of oil and water, or 185,000 gallons, had been recovered by Sunday. Reports say the line gushed for 45 minutes before being stopped and 22 homes were evacuated.
