Prompted by a very interesting post on Grist, "Everything you’ve heard about the tar sands and energy security is wrong", which said that we should keep Canadian oil in reserve to ensure longer-term energy security - a point I also made in my recent (and long-winded) post on the Tar Sands and the Keystone pipeline.
That has prompted an interesting discussion on the nature of energy security, and our relationship to Canada.
It clearly would be in Canadian producer companies interests to open up their Pacific coast to oil exports. There has, indeed, been a push to build a pipeline to the coast, at the port of Kitamat. However, there is significant opposition, from both environmentalists and Native Americans, to building it. They will probably be enough to block it, at least for a time. So - we can't simply assume that the export routes will open. Here's a source on that.
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