Various environmental groups have tried to block or slow Canadian oilsand development.
Alberta is fiercely independent of the federal government and does not forgive them for the national energy program
The energy sector (oil and gas/mining)accounted for over 22 per cent of Alberta's GDP in 2012. But that is only the direct number. All of the stores, hotels etc... are there because of the oil.
Harper's federal government is pro-oilsands.
According to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI), Alberta can expect $350 billion in royalties and $122 billion in provincial and municipal tax revenue from the oil sands over the next 25 years.
Is Saudi Arabia going to stop producing oil voluntarily? Should environmentalists protest for Saudi Arabia to stop oil production ?
Is Texas ?
Should environmentalist protest China to demand the factories that produce products get shutdown ?
Companies and countries would be idiots to totally screw their own economy without better plans. Not every country has politics as screwed up as Germany, who shut down nuclear plants early or population as irrationally afraid as Japan. Those decisions are costing many billions to those economies and increased the pollution from the use of more coal, gas and oil.
The craziness is asking for things that if implemented would drive a region to over 60% unemployment and then wondering why the people being asked to do this are not agreeing to it.
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Alberta is fiercely independent of the federal government and does not forgive them for the national energy program
The energy sector (oil and gas/mining)accounted for over 22 per cent of Alberta's GDP in 2012. But that is only the direct number. All of the stores, hotels etc... are there because of the oil.
Harper's federal government is pro-oilsands.
According to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI), Alberta can expect $350 billion in royalties and $122 billion in provincial and municipal tax revenue from the oil sands over the next 25 years.
Is Saudi Arabia going to stop producing oil voluntarily? Should environmentalists protest for Saudi Arabia to stop oil production ?
Is Texas ?
Should environmentalist protest China to demand the factories that produce products get shutdown ?
Companies and countries would be idiots to totally screw their own economy without better plans. Not every country has politics as screwed up as Germany, who shut down nuclear plants early or population as irrationally afraid as Japan. Those decisions are costing many billions to those economies and increased the pollution from the use of more coal, gas and oil.
The craziness is asking for things that if implemented would drive a region to over 60% unemployment and then wondering why the people being asked to do this are not agreeing to it.
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