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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Well Ontario is shutting down a nuclear power plant in the next few and having to bring on a lot more natural gas in the near future. So buckos for us.
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Are we allowed do do this? I was chatting with some in the know who chuckled about the squashing of energy east. According to him, the real reason energy east was squashed was being canada would potentially violate NATO rules by connecting the east and the west via pipelines because canada would potentially become energy self sufficient. Not because of whatever drivel reason they used.
Countries are not allowed to be energy self sufficient under NATO rules because if a war ever broke out, they could sustain the war longer and embargoes would be less effective of a tactic in the event of war. That's supposedly the real reason why Canada east imports oil vs uses Alberta oil sands.
I'm unsure of whether this is true, but the logic kinda makes sense and he does On occasion run across and deal with the legality stuff for energy project negotiations and regulations.