blueblood

If you like wasting wood when oil and gas is more efficient, then have at it. Do you know how that wood is cut, with oil and gas, and lots of it. Unless you have a team of Clydesdales and a giant bowsaw, that wood is cut with our best friend oil from Alberta. You have fun splitting wood, I'll have fun with my geothermal that comes with free air conditioning. No, at would be govern,net caving in to hippies is why wind power is popping up. If it was profitable, suncor have wind farms all over the place instead of throwing money at the oil sands. Is 11 dollars more expensive than 3.58? That's what nat gas futures are, sounds cheap to me, especially with oil at 100 dollars. I am quite certain you spend thousands less on oil and gas than I do, but my return on that will most likely destroy yours. Oh and corn fed beef does taste the best, ask any patron at the keg, Moxies or earls. I might be a dumb ass prairie boy, but I prefer to be a loaded dumb ass prairie boy. Have fun being a hermit in the bush!

Uh private capital, just like our friends in Saskatchewan.

Precisely and that's the max value the first nations can get with an agreement without the pipeline running down the highway or along the railway. I bet cn and cp wouldn't mind the extra revenue.

That's who should be deep sixed was the Feds and the provinces, but someone didn't want to give up their treaty rights, so as a result the money that should have been going to the band goes to some bureaucrat in Ottawa. But they still have their treaty rights! Had they went the tswwassen route, they would be getting mining revenue as a municipality instead of the Feds. The northern Ontario reserve should be looking at what resources they have and how they can bring them into production. For the whitecap Dakota, their resource was the highway and lots of space.

And they are richer for it. They also are able to obtain bank loans. Would you rather have them live in extreme poverty again?

We don't know that, however if you look at what happened with the Maori in new Zealand, tswwassen in bc, and whitecap Dakota in SK, we know what can improve things. The Cree on James bay cam either look at private enterprise help to develop any resources, which may mean deep sixing their "privileges" under the Indian act; or they can move out of James bay and move out west to where the jobs are. Or we can take your approach and make everyone poorer by keeping the status quo. The whitecap Dakota used to live in poverty, however they properly developed what little resources they had.

And from the looks of it, those in northern ontario have been taking that attitude straight to the poorhouse. The Whitecap Dakota happen to have a better relationship with their land and a better relationship with private enterprise. Someone's moving the goal posts. Should the whitecap dakota live in squalor like those up north for the sake of values?

Oh boy, someone doesn't get the joke. here's where it comes from, enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4VL6jnJMA

Well, what are you complaining about those poor folks up north then. If like you said they don't value money and prefer to keep the 1700s lifestyle going, why are we worried about them? I think they prefer a comparable standard of living to everyone else, unfortunately big government and anti-business types are preventing that from happening. The Whitecap Dakota gets it, why don't you?

Nope, I'm using magic, voodoo, and witchcraft to post stuff online, Here's your sign!!! Have you heard of 3G? Private industry's response to the rural high speed internet bottle cap. Now i'm concerned about the Ontario education system, if you guys can't get that you need to be online to post stuff on an internet forum...

For 50%, the oil companies can afford to take the traditional methods of getting oil to market while the west coast nations deal with being poorer. I winder which ones will crack first. Sounds like the cracking has already begun. McCleans Like it or not, there is a trend with some first nations to get out of the typical way of doing things.

If wind energy was extremely profitable, there would be windmills all over western Canada, every big energy company would be pouring money into popping up wind farms offshore. Why would energy companies be spending a fortune developing the oilsands when they could pop up a windmill? Maybe because the returns suck on wind power? Do you know the amount of nat gas reserves there are? It is an obscene amount and it's dirt cheap. The oil sands won't even come close to making a dent in it. Firewood doesn't have near the energy efficiency as fossil fuels, not even close. Well it looks like Canada should specialize in energy production instead of manufacturing.

Ask the whitecap Dakota reserve insaskatchewan about working with the private sector, their unemployment is at the provincial average. Not only that their books are wide open.

And the oil company tells you to piss up a rope while they find a chief that will be more reasonable, and an alternative route while the chief gets to explain to his people why they missed out on e money. The white cap Dakota reserve in Saskatchewan plays reasonable with private industry and have a 4% unemployment rate, why can't the others?

What products? the Asians And Americans give us a healthy discount and Calgary is now the corporate hub. You guys have 8% unemployment, you guys aren't providing nothing.

Seems like people prefer oil, cattle, grain, and potash to expensive vehicles and blackberries who'd have thunk it. Somebody has to produce products that people want. Maybe you guys can learn a thing or two from us out west My link Wow Ontario is double Saskatchewan, outstanding!!!

What the opportunity for unemployment and living off the gov't? Like the ctv article says, Alberta is attracting the new immigrants, apparently they want to work.

Already taken care of, somebody has to take care of the easterners, we know that they're having problems in the compete and production department.

He sure tried, those high interest payments grew the deficit and debt.

Defending analogy, Trudeau wanted cheap oil, why can't we have cheap cars?

I know guys with pump jacks on their land, sometimes 2 to a quarter and the oil company compensates said person 8k per year just to be able to have the pump jacks there. 8k for the landowner doing sweet f all. For 8k a year and only taking up a couple of acres, it's a no brainer. Cripes you guys have water pipelines in the city, if they break is there not damage to property? Last time I checked water damage can write off a house like oil can.

Containers leak too, if not more than a pipe. Leaving oil in the ground is not an option, we out west are not wanting to be poor, and as you constantly remind us being poor isn't a good time.

there is one, old Harper had surpluses in his first kick at the can. That's as far as my lifetime, Mulroney had trudeaus debt to pay off.

Cars have a cost of production as does oil. Cars have an msrp determined by market forces like oil. What's wrong with sharing the discounts?

Those high oil prices would be useless if there is a blockade preventing sale of said oil. It would help Canada out most of all. There's no rise in capital without demand.