Canada’s natural-resource sectors – agriculture, energy, mining, forestry and fisheries – directly and indirectly account for over 20 per cent of our gross national product, with the energy sector the biggest contributor. Despite having the second largest store of the world’s natural resources millions of dollars a day in revenues, thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars in investment are lost because the opposition to the building of pipelines. The full story can be read at: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-to-build-pipelines-we-must-create-coalition-corridors/
Archives for December 2018
Natural gas at London truck stop
London is home to one of the first three natural gas filling stations opened by energy giant Enbridge, part of a planned network along the nation’s busiest highway. It’s one of three stations now open along the Ontario’s 401 Highway. The others are in Windsor and Napanee. For more on this story go to the link at: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/natural-gas-fuel-pumps-at-london-truck-stop-joins-growing-ontario-network
Canada can lead on responsible natural resource development
The expression “can’t see the forest for the trees” could have been coined by a typically modest Canadian. It summarizes our current attitude to the embarrassment of riches that constitute our natural resources: our forests, wealth of metals and minerals and diverse reserves of energy, commodities that are the envy of any other country in the world. For a variety of reasons, we seem determined not to take full advantage of them. Read more on the story at: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-why-canada-should-be-the-home-of-ecologically-responsible-natural/