Tulita (oil, gas) strike said to be biggest NWT find in decades

[Newsjock]

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=oil-tulita-31032005

CBC News

YELLOWKNIFE - There has been a major oil and gas discovery southwest of Tulita that industry officials say will ignite more interest in exploration in the area.

Oil company executives say it's the largest find in decades in the region, 600 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife.

... Officials say the well produced 20 million cubic feet of natural gas and 6,000 barrels of light crude oil daily during the test in two locations. The oil production is about 100 times greater than the average well in Alberta.

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[XemaSab]

1. Mmmmmmmmm....

foreign oil.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

2. Does Canada have WMD's??

Weapons of Moose Destruction?

[Moosepoop]

17. You called? n/t

[UpInArms]

19. Welcome to DU Moosepoop!

:hi:

I think that our northerly neighbors should :hide:

[merci_me]

3. Won't be long til we starting hearing

about Canada having WMDs? Yesiree, gotta save them from themselves.

Uh-oh, lookout, was that a Canadian insurgent riding his bike into Idaho on the phony pretext that he likes to buy milk by the quart rather than the liter. And why did he want that milk anyway? Bet it was to go with some secret yellow cake. Sure going to be a lot warmer in Guantanamo.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Beware, Canadian friends

It's your water next.

[Boo Boo]

5. I'm very concerned about Canada undermining

fledgling democracies in the region. I'm monitoring the situation carefully.

[Javaman]

6. Wonder what happens now if another referendum for Quebec comes up...

Each year the percentage gets higher regarding who wants to secede from Canada, with the new find, I wonder if Quebec might change it's mind.

Also, it's been well known, that if Quebec secedes, New Foundland has made it clear of it's intentions of becoming a US possession.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Swap

Quebec secedes.
Newfoundland joins the US.
British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii form the indepedent Federated ("Peoples") Republic of Pacifica

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I could be happy abooot that.

[achtung_circus]

15. I've heard

the name "Cascadia" floated for that particular "country".

[chlamor]

18. Ecotopia

Ecotopia 2005

by Geov Parrish

RELATED NEWS:

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Ecotopia, a modest book on the secession of the Pacific Northwest and creation of an isolated, environmentally attuned nation that became an underground classic. Its author, Ernest Callenbach, coined the term Ecotopia and is credited with the first systemic description of an ecologically sustainable society. Callenbach lives in Berkeley, writing on ecological and futurist matters. Geov Parrish spoke with him in early February.

GP: What makes this region different? Why did you pick the Pacific Northwest to secede from the United States and chart a different course?

EC: Well, it's partly just because I live here. If you're going to write a novel about a place, you'd better have a fair amount of knowledge about what the place is like and what the people who inhabit it are like.

But I think the larger reason is that Ecotopia is a kind of bioregion. At the time I was writing Ecotopia the term "bioregion" had not yet been invented, although it followed very soon after. But we now see that the Cascadia bioregion, as the zoologists and botanists now call it, stretches north from the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California all the way up through British Columbia and into the Alaskan panhandle. And this is an area that's defined by a fairly uniform climate, the animals are pretty much consistent throughout, as well as the plants. So there's a certain geographical unity to the area. And my contention, as well as that of a lot of professional geographers, is that in the long run the characteristics of your bioregion help to determine what you might call your regional character. If you contrast Ecotopians with people who live in hot, dry, arid climates of the Southwest, or climates of, say, Quebec, we see that people are somewhat different in these regions. They like different things and they have different possibilities open to them about building and getting around and raising food and a whole panoply of other things.

<snip>

GP: What are the impediments to achieving Ecotopia?

EC: Well, there are two major impediments. One is that we are living under a system of very corrupt government. I don't think there's any possibility of mincing words. The American governing system has become colossally corrupt. That's true not only on state levels but also on the national level. So many of our representatives are in the pockets of corporate entities of one kind or another that it has become very, very difficult to do anything that is in the interest of the great mass of the American people.

<snip>

So this has to get through our thick skulls somehow, that what makes for a good life is not goods. We have to learn what is enough for us. If enough of us can do that, it will change the nature of our society. And our prospects for survival will greatly improve.

http://www.energybulletin.net/4458.html

[mhr]

7. 6,000 Barrels Per Day = .01 % Of Daily World Demand

Not much to write home about!

[Massacure]

13. From two test wells.

Thats a lot considering a well is usually about a couple hundred barrels daily.

[Robbien]

8. The big oil companies already have a stranglehold on Canadian oil

and NAFTA protects US oil interests.

Canada is safe from the US drive for Democracy.

[applegrove]

12. No Canada is getting the "tribalism treatment". Democracy is only

for places far way. When you want to control a country through the elites so that all geo-political decisions are made only at the top and the plurality of voters at election time is erased.. you go tribal and try and slice and dice the nation. Worked in the US.

Also, corporate leaders in Canada are trying very hard to have a say in what the government does. Only problem is that they don't have any votes (well just the vote of the CEO if he happens to be Canadian). So nobody in Canada thinks they should be listened to.

But they will try and make us tribal. Undo federalism. Play Alberta off the rest of the country. Try and play the Liberals off of the Quebecois.

Democracy is for places the US wants to kill transnational tribalism in. Transnational tribalism is for places the USA wants to have direct control over and whose democracy they want to kill.

There are already too many Americans living in Alberta. Now some Americans will have to start moving to the NWT. Man - that is going to cost them a pretty penny to convince some yanks to move to a place with 1 month of summer and 6 months of darkness.

[Radio_Rick]

9. Problems

1. Offshoring of US jobs - especially to Ontario and British Columbia.
2. Socialized medicine -- as evil as Cuba and Cuban cigars.
3. Stem cell research ---> with results.
4. American draft dodgers.
5. Legalization (okay, decriminalization) of small quantities of marijuana.
6. Refused to join in "Star Wars."
7. And those Quebecois --- they speak FRENCH.

This poses a bigger threat on our nothern border then Cuba and Mexico together on our southern border.

Bush-Cheney-Rummie say we have to seize that oil and gas.

[Robbien]

14. Under NAFTA the US has already seized that oil

Canada has no worries on that front just as long as they honor NAFTA.

[BringEmOn]

11. How did our oil get under their tundra?

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. Damm some Canuks - they sold that Company to the States years ago!!

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This logo look familiar to any of y'all down there??

yup yup -

Northrock Resources Ltd.

Calgary-based Northrock Resources Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unocal Corporation.

http://www.unocal.com/northam/nrthrock.htm
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Hartley moved quickly to assure the company's future. In 1965, Union Oil merged with The Pure Oil Company of Illinois, lifting the company from regional to national status with operations in 37 states. The new Union Oil had the financial clout to expand its international petroleum search.

In the next 25 years, Union became the major oil producer in southern Alaska and a major natural gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico. Overseas, the company discovered the huge Attaka oil field offshore Indonesia, developed fields in the rugged North Sea

http://www.unocal.com/aboutucl/history/index.htm
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hmm - dey don mention the wee Canadian invasion

what the hey -

most of our gas 'n oil goes to the US anyhoo

a pic is worth a thousand words they say -

They call this the Trans-Canada pipeline
- that must be for Canuk consumption - y'all can see where these lines GO




For an interactive map that is even more detailed than this, and goes all the way to the East Coast (US)

Click on this small image when the page opens up

It keeps saying(in the article) "Northrock Resources and its partners"

who them partners be I'd like to know . . . .

MIGHT be a Canuk or 2 in there ??

[merci_me]

20. It looks like you guys are safe......we need to go after China

It seems there's some bidding going on and Unocal could very soon be "aquired" by China.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4154563.stm

[ConcernedCanuk]

21. Ummm - we've got China looking for our gas and oil too -

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and our beef, lumber, etc.

Seems like we been getting royally "dinged" by our largest trading partner lately

So we, like Venezuela, are expanding our markets so we don't have to depend on "unreliable" markets . . .

OR

just plain greedy and vindictive customers

'course

maybe it's our own fault for not jumpin' on the WarWagen every time it rolls by? :shrug: