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November 22, 2007 The Globe and Mail reported today that, "TransCanada said yesterday that it has filed a regulatory application to build (a $1-billion) 300-kilometre... (North Central Corridor) pipeline to traverse northern Alberta, moving natural gas to 'feed' increasing oil sand production around Fort McMurray. It is expected to be in service by 2010..." This is after a new National Energy Board forecasts that predicts tar sands production will almost triple by 2015 to three million barrels a day, all destined for the U.S. market. It's a lot of clear natural gas to waste on a filthy export, which even industry reps are willing to admit. "Hal Kvisle, TransCanada chief executive officer, suggested in an interview yesterday that depending on natural gas for oil sands production is probably not the best use of a resource that heats the homes of most Canadians," reported the Globe today. "He said new technologies likely will eventually reduce the amount of gas needed but right now there is a market demand to 'feed Fort McMurray.'" On November 16, the Globe reported on a NEB report that states, "Canada will become a net importer of natural gas by around 2028 if current production and price trends continue, with the shortfall from dwindling Western Canadian output being met by liquefied natural gas from overseas." Canada now exports 61 per cent of the natural gas we produce each year to the United States. This figure would not include the natural gas that is consumed to produce the oil that we export to the United States. (Canada exported to the United States 2.3 million barrels per day of oil and petroleum products in 2006, according to the US Energy Information Administration.) In January this year, based on a CBC report about SPP plans to significantly ramp up tar sands production, the Council of Canadians issued an action alert called, "Harper must reject (SPP) plans for 'fivefold expansion' of tar sands production." It makes no sense to be sacrificing Canadian energy security in order to "feed" the unsustainable exploitation of the Alberta tar sands. Click here to send a letter to Prime Minister Harper now.
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