Can it be extracted profitably, and in a way that doesn't take more energy to get it than you get from it.
The first part of this sentence is correct and the only thing that matters to the companies that will produce this oil & gas.
Can it be extracted profitably, and in a way that doesn't take more energy to get it than you get from it.
deMolay wrote:Yes we have 200 and Fiddy overweight Inuit blubber eaters on broken down skidoos with WW2 era .303 rifles who went on patrol recently and had to be rescued. We have 2 used Diesel electric submarines we purchased from the Brits and they have been in the shipyards for repair ever since. We have 40 year old Seaking Helicopters that could fall out of the sky at any moment and kill great numbers of the enemy. I dare you to cross this line, well actually I meant that line. No not that one, this one. The offical plan is for the 200 and Fiddy Blubber eaters to take prisoners. Hold them and make them eat blubber raw, or marry one of their fat blubber eating toothless women, until they promise to never return to the Arctic.
ian807 wrote:Might be true, but it's the same old story. Can it be extracted profitably, and in a way that doesn't take more energy to get it than you get from it. We have oil in the lower 48. Oil Sands. The Bakken formation. Absent of some technological breakthrough, it's still useless as a source of profitable, energy positive oil.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
pstarr wrote:You want to buy some patented exciting new real estate? I'm building it right now. Just send me a check and I'll fill you in on the details. Okay?Maddog78 wrote:Don't break pstarr's bubble.
He doesn't want to believe in any of these new techs.
Maddog78 wrote:Don't break pstarr's bubble.
He doesn't want to believe in any of these new techs.
kiwichick wrote:are you dixheads listening????????????
i'll ask again; how does this new survey of the arctic compare to the 2000 guessitmate??
kiwichick wrote:are you dixheads listening????????????
In a political show of force, Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and Science and Technology Minister Gary Goodyear all spoke at a press conference to outline the report, entitled "Canada's Northern Strategy: Our North, Our Heritage, Our Future."
"This document further articulates our vision for the North and highlights the extensive and growing progress to date, including major investments under Canada's Economic Action Plan," Strahl told reporters at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que.
The report outlines four pillars of the government's Northern strategy: Arctic sovereignty, promoting social and economic development, protecting the North's environmental heritage and improving Northern governance.
Strahl and the other ministers also unveiled an official website (northernstrategy.gc.ca) that will contain up-to-date information on Arctic policy.
Some elements of the plan were announced last summer during several high-profile trips to the region by senior government officials, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
New government plans included an economic development agency and improved regulatory processes, to boost investor confidence in the North.
Plans for a new state-of-the-art icebreaker, to be named for former prime minister John Diefenbaker, were also outlined.
The announcement comes as five countries continue to haggle over who has control of the Arctic basin.
Canada, the U.S., Denmark, Norway and Russia are all surveying the region ahead of a 2013 deadline to make a formal claim to the area.
During last summer's Arctic visits, the federal government announced plans to ratchet up military operations in the North, by promising new northern warships and a dedicated Arctic unit.
Maddog78 wrote:I personally have worked in the Beaufort Sea onboard the Kulluk and Molikpaq for Gulf Oil and the Explorer II Drill Ship for Dome Petroleum in the mid 80's.
http://www.oilrig-photos.com/picture/number129.asp
http://www.frontier-drill.com/Fleet/Kul ... fault.aspx
AgentR wrote:I'd much rather the Russians get it that the Canadians! At least the Russians are fairly straightforward about their trade practices. Canada screws you out of everything coming and going, while smiling and say, "are we such pleasant people..."
AgentR wrote:My point is lost on the Canadian fan club here.
AgentR wrote:My complaints are with what Canada did/does do with regards to IMPORTS INTO CANADA.
Not whether or not Canada exports into the US.
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