Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada approved

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10. I'm not happy to say this, but I can't make any sense of your argument.

After all, the topic IS the Alberta tar-sands (bitumen), which has to be washed down with obnoxious chemical liquifiers to flow through a pipeline at all, and I say it's also about the Canadian voter who collectively elected Stephen Harper (Reform/Conservative Party) with his entire Reform Party history to a majority gov't, giving Stephen Harper the defining and deciding power.

You might have a hate on for China. OK, that's fair enough. But the primary destination for Alberta tar-sands raw product is through the USA. My bet is that the full US route will be built (it is already well under way), just as Northern Gateway will be built, because there are already $billions$ invested over several years and the project is totally established, politically.

I'm from B.C. and of an age where I can remember controversies w.r.t. "raw logs" being shipped across the Pacific, rather than being finished over here. The deciding factor, of course, was and is that it is much *easier* to pillage the natural resources of Canada, than it is to harvest them wisely, and that those who've taken this easier route use their money and political clout to make the pillaging even easier and more instantly profitable for themselves, the winners. It's the exact same scenario with Alberta's "dirty oil".