{"id":13162,"date":"2012-01-20T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13162"},"modified":"2012-01-20T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:09:29","slug":"paul-wells-on-the-shady-characters-behind-ethical-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/paul-wells-on-the-shady-characters-behind-ethical-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Wells on the shady characters behind &#8220;Ethical Oil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He pretty much <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/01\/20\/crude-awakening\/\" target=\"_blank\">blows the lid<\/a> off this conspiracy to sell Canadian oil to unaware, easily duped foreigners who don&#8217;t realize how evil the conspirators are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In hindsight, Stephen Harper\u2019s new fight against the world\u2019s oil sands detractors was a long time coming. Last November in Vancouver, the Prime Minister gave a local television interview in which he warned that \u201csignificant American interests\u201d would be \u201ctrying to line up against the Northern Gateway project,\u201d Enbridge\u2019s proposed $3.5-billion double pipeline from near Edmonton to a new port at Kitimat, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll funnel money through environmental groups and others in order to try to slow it down,\u201d Harper told his hosts. \u201cBut, as I say, we\u2019ll make sure that the best interests of Canada are protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In early November, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he was putting off final approval of TransCanada\u2019s $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline until after this November\u2019s presidential election. Harper has long viewed Obama as an unsteady ally. Now he\u2019d had enough. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, the damage has been done,\u201d he told CTV before Christmas. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to make sure we diversify our energy exports.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He pretty much blows the lid off this conspiracy to sell Canadian oil to unaware, easily duped foreigners who don&#8217;t realize how evil the conspirators are: In hindsight, Stephen Harper\u2019s new fight against the world\u2019s oil sands detractors was a long time coming. Last November in Vancouver, the Prime Minister gave a local television interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,25,65,84],"tags":[542,491,616,258],"class_list":["post-13162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-china","category-economics","category-environment","category-government","tag-alberta","tag-bc","tag-oilsands","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13164,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13162\/revisions\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}