Latest Ipsos-Reid Poll: Energy

Posted on Sunday, March 07 at 14:03 by N Say
"While many Canadians (42%) believe that increasing the amount of energy Canada supplies to the United States is a good thing because of the economic and job creation benefits, a majority (56%) believe that doing so will undermine the long-term national independence of the country. Seven-in-ten Canadians (70%) are already concerned about foreign ownership of Canada’s energy resources.
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Canadians and Americans show limited knowledge of Canada’s energy reserves. Across three true / false questions posed in each country, Americans and Canadians scored only a single correct answer on an overall basis. While, a majority of Canadians (73%) and Americans (60%) correctly stated that Canada is a major supplier of electricity to New England, New York, the Upper Midwest, the Pacific Northwest and California, less than three-in-ten Americans (28%) and only one-third of Canadians (33%) are aware that Canada has greater oil reserves than Iran, Iraq and every other country except Saudi Arabia. Similarly, less than two-in-ten Americans (15%) and less than three-in-ten Canadians (29%) are aware that Canada is the largest total supplier of imported oil and petroleum products to the United States."

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  1. Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:48 pm
    <i>only one-third of Canadians (33%) are aware that Canada has greater oil reserves than Iran, Iraq and every other country except Saudi Arabia.</i><p> To qualify that statistic, Saudi Arabia has more crude oil in the ground than Canada. If you count the Oil Sands, Canada has more oil reserves.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
    "The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  2. Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:17 pm
    True, but we cannot discount the fact that while trade is good, we cannot allow the US to control our resources and suck them dry, leaving Canada with nothing, because that`s exactly what`s going to happen. It`s funny, how these 'deals' with the US, are only making a small handful of Canadians rich, and unfortunately, have brainwashed countless others into thinking that we`re eating pudding, when actually, we`re eating shit!

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    Dave Ruston

  3. Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:58 pm
    The oil sands are basically useless since it will cost more oil to extract then we can ever hope to get out of the oil sands.

  4. Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:42 pm
    Sure. That`s why Ft. McMurray has grown like a weed over the last decade. These oil sands are not useless, given improvements in extraction technology and further improvements in the technology to come. In fact, they`re more concentrated on using natural gas for the moment in extraction.

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    Dave Ruston

  5. Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:50 pm
    Yea. Uhh huh. Current costs are about $10.00 a barrell, depending on the cost of natural gas to produce needed electricity and heat. That includes all costs involved, labour, fuel etc. Syncrude sweet blend sells for about 30% more than Texas light sweet crude, so today it's about $47.00 a barrell to sell. So $37.00 a barrell in pure profit isn't economical? Lets see, 500,000 barrells today, $37 a barrell, 18.5 million a day worth of taxable product from Fort McMurray.<p> I guess I better move to a different province, this one's going broke.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
    "The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

  6. by N Say
    Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:12 pm
    Some chemists/engineers or whoever at U of Sask (I think) have figured out how to extract aluminium from the tailings, making the tar-sands operation more cost-effective. I don't think it has started yet but it's long past the 'experimental' phase, or whatever they call it.

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    "So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." - t-shirt I saw @ school



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