- Taxes on destroying the fauna
- Taxes on emitting pollution into the air
- Royalty payments
- All of the other taxes that apply to businesses
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." A Liberal-supporting, environmentalist blog. We blog according to our opinions, not those of the party or government. Free speech must win and that's why we have this blog. The views of two Montrealers and a Libertarian.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Petro Province?
According to Questerre Energy Corp., an underground lake of natural gas is buried near the St. Lawrence river. Also, another company wants to drill a well on an oil field on the border between Newfoundland and Quebec. This means that we are facing the possibility of becoming a province that contributes to equalization, not receives. We also have to consider the environmental impact of the drillings. Exploitations do pollute the air and water. I say let the companies do it. But there are going to be Taxes with a capital t.
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A handful of oil wells won't make Quebec into an oil-rich province.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what kind of other problems will arise regrading the fact that Quebec likes to think the Quebec Newfoundland & Labrador border is other than what the rest of world knows it to be including the Privey Council of 1922. Just another headache because Quebec will just want its own way like a child with a lollypop.
ReplyDeleteYou're a bit late to the party. Questerre's find has been in the news for a month and the Utica shale gas play has been in the news for the last two or three years. Search for Junex, Gastem, Petrolia.
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