XPost: can.politics, ab.politics, bc.politics   
   XPost: mtl.general   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:25:08 -0700, (ಠ_ಠ)  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > The Alberta tarsands may have reached their end at expanding.  From here   
   > on in, let's hope that more and more companies start shutting down and   
   > pulling out of Alberta.   
   > If we can't have a Prime Minister that gives a damn about Canada's   
   > environment, let's hope that corporate greed for bigger profit lines is   
   > what shuts down the tarsands.   
   >   
   > Don't forget the Keystone and Enbridge & Kinder Morgan pipleines, gods . .   
   > . .   
   > ________________________________________   
      
   We should process the current production here in Canada and work on   
   reducing the carbon load.  There'll be no drop in demand in the mid   
   term for the end products.  Right now we're using energy from methane   
   (NG) to mine and upgrade tarsands to a feedstock suitable for export   
   as a replacement for conventional crude.  There's too many conversions   
   for any decent energy efficiency so basically we're doing it so   
   other people's refineries don't have to modernize.   
      
   We should sell the NG to China, use an (?Indian) CANDU (or mebbe LMSC's   
   H-bimb;)   
   to provide mining and upgrading energy into modernized refinery plant here   
   in Canada.  Conventional nukes (GE/WH LWPR) should not even be considered.   
      
   Alberta has considerable untapped agricultural potential as far north   
   as Ft.Chip, and we're poisoning it with effluent from Ft. Mac.   
      
   It also strikes me that processing complex hydrocarbons into fuel for energy   
   is fairly shortsighted.   
      
   Dhu   
      
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