If Keystone and the Kinder Morgan expansion get built, I think the next step to properly and responsibly exploit our resource should be to build a state of the art Candu facility to provide carbon free electricity for extraction and upgrading for all future bitumen and heavy oil production. Of course, this nation building project will never happen. The unfounded fear of nukes makes this idea a non starter, even though it's made good economic and environmental sense for decades.
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