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SPP resources
SPP Summit - New Orleans
April 21-22, 2008
SPP Summit - Montebello
August 19-21, 2007
Teach-in
March 31 to April 1, 2007
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Workshop 6
Canada’s Oil: Feed America’s Addiction or Save the Environment?
Description
Participants will explore key energy and environmental issues facing Canadians today, such as:
- SPP plans for further U.S. takeover of Canada’s energy resources
- NAFTA’s proportionality requirement to export Canadian oil and natural gas
- Security of supply for eastern Canadians
- Foreign ownership of Canada's oil and gas industry
- Canada’s oil and the U.S/ military
- Tarsands, emissions and the environment
- Lack of future processing in Canada
- The Keystone pipeline
- Job loss in the energy sector and the high Canadian dollar
- Democratic control and First Nations ownership
Leaders
Keith R. Newman, Director of Research at theCommunications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP)
Gordon Laxer, Director and Cofounder of the Parkland Institute. Laxer is a political economist writing on energy issues.
Language
Workshop presented in English. Questions in either English or French.
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