Editor:
When you announced the 700 million infrastructure fund for Alberta you missed an opportunity to announce long term developments and jobs for all of Canada.
Instead of announcing further delays to any pipelines and therefore bowing to special interest groups. Sometimes you have to stand up all the way for the betterment of Canada in the future.
Two year delays, two years of public consultation and two years to build any future pipelines does nothing to ensure that the oil industry in Alberta can be sustainable until such time. Oil prices will not be at this level in six years. Canada has to have its oil at a seaport for export when the prices return to a more profitable margin. Canada should not be subsidizing the Americans by shipping a million barrels of oil a day to Oklahoma.
Any pipeline already approved by the Energy Board and ant proposed pipelines that are going through the environmental assessment process should be fast tracked.
Let鈥檚 stop procrastinating our country to special interest groups that are a detriment to our economy.
Gary Hemmerling
亚洲天堂 Lake, BC
