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   From: Çons®@minority#s   
      
   This is how the premier of BC, Christy Clark, is 'playing the people of BC' in   
   order to   
   try to improve her fortunes in the Spring election.   
      
   1.  The majority of British Columbians want NO PART OF an oil pipeline from   
   the tarsands   
   to the coast - to be picked up by Chinese tankers, destined for foreign   
   countries.   
      
   2.  Christy Clark and her BC 'Liberals' are at numbers half of the Opposition   
   party.   
      
   3.  Christy Clark (very likely in collaboration with her 'nemesis', Aliston   
   Redford,   
   premier of Alberta) picks a fight over the REVENUES for Alberta that would be   
   derived by   
   such a project.   
      
   4.  The not-too-bright in BC will interpret this 'fight' as an indication that   
   Christy   
   Clark really DOES care about BC and British Columbians - and maybe her numbers   
   in the   
   polls will climb.   
      
   Anyone biting?   Especially when you remember that Christy Clark received some   
   major   
   election campaign funding by attending $500-a-plate luncheons with the   
   executives of the   
   oil companies in Alberta - many of them American companies?   
      
   Great ploy on the part of Christy Clark and her ever-conniving and lying   
   party.  (Yes,   
   Virginia, we still have the HST in British Columbia even after having voted it   
   out . . . .   
   . )   
      
   Remember which party has stood firm AGAINST this pipeline from the very   
   beginning.   
   Christy Clark is playing us and only the very gullible or the very greedy will   
   be taken in   
   by her and her scheming BC Liberals.   
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   July 27, 2012   
      
   B.C. premier won't sign national energy strategy until pipeline dispute   
   resolved   
      
   HALIFAX - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark refused Friday to join her   
   provincial   
   counterparts in crafting a national energy strategy, insisting that a public   
   feud over the   
   Northern Gateway pipeline has to be resolved before she can proceed.   
      
   Clark stepped out of meetings at the Council of the Federation in Halifax to   
   make the   
   announcement as premiers tried to cobble together a pan-Canadian strategy on   
   energy and   
   before they broke for their final news conference.   
      
   She said she wouldn't endorse a deal before discussions take place with Ottawa   
   and Alberta   
   over how B.C. would be compensated for allowing the $6-billion pipeline to   
   carry heavy oil   
   to the B.C. coast to be loaded onto tankers bound for Asia.   
      
   "British Columbia will not be participating in any of those discussions until   
   after we've   
   seen some progress that our requirements for the shipment of heavy oil will be   
   met," she   
   told a hastily called news conference.   
      
   "It's not a national energy strategy if British Columbia hasn't signed on."   
      
   Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford have been locked in an intractable   
   dispute over   
   economic benefits associated with the megaproject proposed by Enbridge, with   
   Clark saying   
   the sides must talk before there can be any movement.   
      
   She said the two had a "very frank discussion" about it Friday morning, but   
   didn't reveal   
   details or if they planned on holding further talks on the matter.   
      
   Redford has said she sees no point in talking since the pipeline project is a   
   private   
   venture and British Columbia has to decide on its own how to proceed with   
   trying to secure   
   more revenue from it.   
      
   At the closing news conference, Redford said the lack of unanimity on a   
   national energy   
   plan wasn't something that concerned her.   
      
   "I don't think we should lament the fact that we're not all the way there   
   yet," Redford   
   said.   
      
   "I think we should actually celebrate a tremendous amount of success in that   
   we had almost   
   every premier in the country talking about the fact that we need to come   
   together and talk   
   about how to grow Canada's energy economy."   
      
   But after much talk going into the meeting of co-operation and the evolution   
   of a   
   pan-Canadian energy strategy, the premiers appeared to leave with little more   
   than the   
   creation of a working group of premiers that will build on a 2007 plan.  [. .   
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