DrCaleb DrCaleb:
bootlegga bootlegga:
Frankly, who cares? AFAIK, we aren't planning on selling it to them anyways.
Au contraire! British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Total Energy; all have large stakes in the oilsands. Which is why those 3 countries are among the ones that obstained from voting.
The reason those companies are operating in the oil sands is mostly because the oil sands are one of the few major oil deposits on earth that foreign countries can still operate in - most major oil deposits worldwide have been nationalized and are run solely by the nation's which on them (like in the ME, Venezuala, etc).
European companies may be operating in the oil sands, but they don't sell it to European countries, they sell it to Canadians and the US. If Northern Gateway gets built, then I could see them selling it to Asia too, but given that there are no plans (that I've heard of anyways) to build a pipeline to Churchill or the Maritimes, I don't see how any of those companies even could sell it to Europe even if they wanted too.