by
nicetomeetyou
(我思我在我梦我爱)
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2007.12.6 12:04
(#4103628@0)
Some points are pretty much alerting:
"Rather, in his effort to win passage for his bill, he panders to manufacturing and trade union federations by penalizing imports from foreign countries. Companies from Canada and elsewhere would have to buy U.S. allowances, either directly or indirectly, to cover the greenhouse gases emitted during the manufacture or recovery of their products."
"The U.S. Commerce Department has already expressed the opinion that most Canadian exports (oil, natural gas, autos, auto parts, iron, steel, pulp and paper) are more GHG-intensive than their U.S. equivalents."
"Another corollary is that, if the Canada-U.S. border did become impermeable to exports, only a fool would build new processing or manufacturing capacity in Canada. The good people at companies such as EnCana Corp. are anything but fools, and announcements that leave resource exploitation in Canada but move refining and processing activities to the U.S., such as a recent deal with ConocoPhillips, are likely the shape of things to come."
Again, this threating words sound string, but is void:
As Pierre Alvarez, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said: "If you're getting US$80 a barrel, but in the U.S. you're paying US$5 extra, you'll sell to China. One thing about oil is, it's very mobile."
URL:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=147168
PIC:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=147168