re: #293 b_sharp

If you check Canada’s top two provinces, you’ll see they’re sitting on the same or similar oil fields to those in ND. Oil (and potash in Sask) is the main driver of those economies since the price of oil skyrocketed. When it was $20/brl it wasn’t worth it to pull oil from the oil-sands, but $120.00/brl oil makes it worth it to squeeze oil from a rock. If production increases too much and the price drops, the economies of the west are going to take a hit.

My brother said last night that in two hundred years those writing the literature on human history will be saying “They did *what* with the oil!?!” along with lamenting that their predecessors had foreknowledge of global warming effects and opted to do nothing about it. And that Bangladesh will be the new Lyonesse.