Northern Gateway a must? It's a red herring. Dead in the water IMO. If you follow the evolution of Keystone XL, it looks something like this:
Harper: Tar sands??
Obama: Too dirty man..jeez!
(passage of time..peak oil..instability...concern)
Harper: Keystone XL??
Obama: Its DIRTY and HUGE...n stuff...
Harper: Hey China, Tar sands??
China: YES PLEASE!!!!!!
(republican outrage!!)
Obama under duress: Okay can we build a piece of it or something C'MON congress damnit build that section at least..
(stalling...stalling)
Harper: Hey China, want some tar sands oil company??
(entire american administration group huddle to figure a way to sell UGH!...tar sands to american public)
Which brings us to present day.
So ya..red herring IMO. Even if it weren't, BC won't have it. Majority doesn't want it, or the tax revenue or the token handfull of jobs. We aren't exactly sittin pretty here economically speaking so if we can do without the revenue for a greater good, anyone can. This is called integrity. I imagine someone will pipe in about us not having a choice; that it's a federal matter. They said that about the HST. Deal signed with the feds is a done deal they said. We made history undoing that deal. If push comes to shove, you can't lock up the majority of BC. The logistics alone are utterly impossible. If one wants to start spewing about tollgates and the like, I have a better idea. How about we simply erect a giant electric fence up the border. We'll eke out an existence in our forests, streams, lakes and ocean and Alberta can play on it's side in it's vast fields of brown heavy metal dirt that wrap around the curvature of the earth. Say, maybe they could plant some of that money in lieu of grass wait...hundreds are brown too...rats But Hey! just think of all the wigs you can buy with your oil tax revenue, to remedy your arsenic induced hairloss. You'll have so much tarsands money from the Trans Canada pipeline, no Albertan will ever be wanting for a wig for the rest of their brief lifespan. WHOA!! Ima open me a wig store emporium in Edmonton!! CHA CHING!! Okay nevermind, just googled it and apparently an oil exec. already has that gig nailed down. guess I'm stuck here livin on salmon (blech)
