"If they have disposable billions, I would suggest a better course of action would be to invest in refining capacity so that we Canadians can benefit from the jobs and we Canadians can benefit from this natural resource rather than sending it in raw form to another jurisdiction," Horgan told reporters Thursday.
"I think it's a reasonable way forward and I would be absolutely delighted to participate."
Federal Green Leader Elizabeth May has touted the same plan to avoid shipping more bitumen off the coast, and even suggested branding the gasoline “Fort Mac Strong.”“There’s not a Canadian that wouldn’t rather put Fort Mac Strong in their gas tank than buying from Venezuela and Khazakstan and Nigeria,” May said this week.
With much Trump like rhetoric coming from all directions about the proposed increase of flow of toxic tar sand output to the west coast, to be shipped overseas via tankers it was good to read about this suggestion which seems to be the only reasonable compromise to this delema. Expecting Alberta and Trudeau to consider this idea or the other players to invest in the infrastructure needed to bring such a thing to fruition is however dreaming in technicolor I fear. Notley was going on about buying out Kinder Morgan but investing in refining capacity would be a much better idea and more profitable in the long run as unfortunately it will be many years before we are able to get all our energy needs from 'clean' sources.
A tip of the hat to The Disaffected Lib for this one.....
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While I am opposed to any further extraction of bitumen that will only contribute further to greenhouse gas emissions, Rural, the suggestion of Alberta refinery development would at least spare B.C. coastline the added risk of spillage posed by the twinning of Trans Mountain.
Whilst the increased potential of spills from a twinned pipeline is very troubling it is the tripling of the tanker traffic and inability to clean up ocean spills in any meaningful way that should stop the process in its tracks Lorne.
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