Canada: Reducing Reliance on Overseas Oil
http://www.arcenergyideas.com/?p=693
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Another item which is unmentioned inhibiting the east/west pipelines is the autonomy of the Canadian provinces. They simply will not necessarily cooperate with each other to enrich one of them.
This is similar to my experience in Australia, where I evaluated a gas project for fields in the Northern Territory.
The most viable market was an aluminum mine situated in Queensland that burnt high cost coal that could be replaced by 100 mmcfd gas.
It was a non-starter as the project would displace all those Queensland coal miners from work, so Queensland killed it.
I wouldn't be surprised is there were dock workers involved in Quebec.......