Northern gateway

Extracting and exporting partially refined crude from Fort McMurray, Alta., to China via Bruderheim, Alta., is a misguided economic policy. It is not a proposal for diversifying Alberta’s economy that I can imagine enlightened premiers such as Peter Lougheed would likely endorse. With our collective backs to the wall in regard to rising global levels […] Read more

Alberta & nukes

On Oct. 1, 2008, the Idaho National Laboratory, (which has) hosted Conservative party leaders including (Alberta) premier Ed Stelmach and energy minister Mel Knight at their centre in Boise, made a lengthy submission to the expert panel on nuclear. INL, a nuclear research group and subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Energy, had a lot […] Read more