WASHINGTON—The most powerful voice in America’s energy debate is coming to Ottawa for a series of meetings to learn more about Canada’s controversial oilsands development, the Star has learned.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected in the Canadian capital Wednesday and Thursday for a summit of G8 Speakers. But the journey now will include several high-level meetings focusing on Alberta’s energy-intensive oilsands, sources on both sides of the border confirm.
Pelosi’s office in Washington declined comment on her upcoming travels. Other U.S. government sources, however, confirmed the trip but stressed Canadian energy issues comprise only part of her itinerary.
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right, I wonder if China wanting to buy up oil sand property and talk of a pipe line to get that oil to the west coast is getting their attention
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wouldn’t that be a hoot if she lost her seat in November.
Would be great if she lost, but she is probably going to lose the Speakers job.
Shouldn’t she be going to AB and at least fly over the oil sands projects to see the truth. I don’t think a majority of people have ever seen the the oil sands, pre development. We should have said we are recovering oil that mother nature spilled all over the north.
That is exactly what she should be told: we are cleaning up Mother Natiure’s oil spill after several millions of years leaking into the environment. What, they want us to just leave it continue to pollute the Clearwater and Athabasca Rivers, untold numbers of lakes and streams, native people’s land, wildlife?
What the hell is their problem with this? Show this moonbat the reclamation post extraction and clean-up. They might learn something from us applicable to their open pit, mountain top coal mining practices in the Appalachian states. What a bunch of prissy, self righteous moonbats!
This woman and her political Party need an education on the facts of life about the oil sands and their own “dirty” industries. What do they think we were doing going after them on acid rain for? This woman needs to look in the mirror for solutions to their own problems instead of trying to meddle in our affairs.
MaryT, a lot of Albertans haven’t seen the Oil Sands. I was having dinner with a friend in Edmonton just this week who said ‘the disgusting pollution’ in Fort Mac. I was shocked and gave my opinion how beautiful I thought Ft Mc was. Clean air, blue sky, clean rivers pretty town. I grew up in mining towns and I KNOW how ugly they can be. Ft. Mac isn’t that at all. Turns out this friend with the opinion has been to Ft. Mac once – just driving through in the middle of the night. He backed right off when I mentioned I’d been up there for a week at a time about half a dozen times the last two years. People yak about crap they don’t even bother to find out if its true.
Is she Steven Tylers mother?
I find it odd that politticians here want to shut down the oil sands production. Taking that production out would do what to the price of oil? Restricting exploration and development on the US and Canadian continental shelf and in the US’s case on land as well, will do what to the price of oil?
Risking your economy on shipping oil from the middle east or elsewhere in the world entails financing and building a Blue Water Navy to protect those supplies of oil to North America.
You would of course tell your population that the world is not a scarey place and everybody “out there” has your best interests at heart, so you don’t need a Navy?
People who think that think that we can compete in a global economy without tapping into our own, local sources of energy. They also think that you can run an economy on solar and wind only.
What do you think? You believe that? Would you trust your economic future to people who think like that? Suppose somone else says they’ll pay more for that shipload of crude destined to Levis Quebec, to supply fuels like diesel, jet fuel and heating oil to Canadians. You own the crude, who you going to ship to, lower price guy vs higher price guy?
When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun don’t shine, where you gonna get some power to heat your home or cook a meal? Get on your bike? Ever seen a solar farm tractor?
After November lets talk ! Pelosi’s may become very irrelevant then: Sure talk to her just in case the Democrats keep control of Congress and or the Senate but the Speaker of the House may not be the same.
Oh, and ” BIG IF ” Obama is impeached and Biden doesn’t become the President the Speaker of the House is third in line for the Presidency: Thoughts of Pelosi as President makes me tankful for Obama ….. LOL.
Re: #1 — “wouldn’t that be a hoot if she lost her seat in November.”
It seems to me that the lady was re-elected in 2008 along with Obama and her seat will not be open again until 2012.
Readers can correct me on that point if I’m wrong.
Yes maybe her seat is not in play but the Speaker of the House comes from the party with the most seats, so I meant that she wouldn’t be the Speaker if the GOP ended up controlling Congress: She would still be there but not with the same power or influence.
RE: #9 — Agreed.
From google :
All 435 Representatives are up for election every even year (2006, 2008, 2010…).
So, she could lose her seat in November, not likely but she could. I doubt if she will be Speaker come January 2011.
We will be sold out by the Pembina Institute and the other environmental idiots. If Alberta wants to be heard they need to seen viable representatives not “trana” types.
Maybe she’ll fall into a tar pit and not be found for a couple of million years or so. When somebody does eventually stumble onto her perfectly preserved carcass the first thing they’ll wonder out loud is……. yikes I wonder if that creature was as nasty when it was alive as it looks when it is dead?