I was going to make some wise crack about the need to invade Canada in the future, and Bob had this to say:Who needs "oil independence" - our friendly neighbor to the north is sitting on a black gold mine!
Alberta sits atop the biggest petroleum deposit outside the Arabian peninsula - as many as 300 billion recoverable barrels and another trillion-plus barrels that could one day be within reach using new retrieval methods.
But then, I guess we're not taking any chances...The Alberta oil sands are an ecological disaster to mine (probably far worse than ANWR drilling), and require huge amounts of energy to process. Worse, they require (and foul) huge amounts of fresh water, something much more vital than oil. While high oil prices may make some oil-sand processing economically feasible, much of those billions of barrels will forever remain unrecoverable since they will require more energy to extract than they contain.
Invasion probably won't be necessary.For nearly two years now, Ottawa has been quietly negotiating a far-reaching military cooperation agreement, which allows the US Military to cross the border and deploy troops anywhere in Canada, in our provinces, as well station American warships in Canadian territorial waters. This redesign of Canada's defense system is being discussed behind closed doors, not in Canada, but at the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado, at the headquarters of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM).[...]
Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures is also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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