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Thursday, September 18, 2008


Alberta’s ‘dirty’ oil a sticky problem for Charest.

Globe & Mail Report on Business, September 18, 2008 - “If you had to choose between Alberta oil or crude from Algeria and Angola, which should you pick? This is the decision Quebec Premier Jean Charest faces now that Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. has unveiled plans to pipe heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to refineries in Montreal for the first time. Quebec currently relies almost exclusively on imported oil, with Algeria, Britain, Norway, Angola and Venezuela as its main suppliers. The Parti Québécois, along with some leading environmental groups, think it should stay that way. To them, piping in oil from the “tar sands” - the enviros’ preferred term - would reverse all of Quebec’s progress on climate change.” Read more.

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