Trego's Mountain Ear

I saw this map on Small Dead Animals (when you’re this close to the border, following Canadian blogs makes sense):

The map suggests that the challenges involved in holding Canada together may be greater than I had realized. Saskatchewan is looking at a similar route to get their fertilizer to the Pacific – though that may wind up being truck and rail.

I’ve seen a poll taken on the Alberta separatist movement – while I have no idea how good the pollster is, results of 19% for Alberta independence and 75% who want to stay Canadian seem pretty solid. We shall see – they’re gathering signatures for the election, and I am sure it will occur. Who knows – they may even get a pipeline that runs through British Columbia.

Ten days later – and before I got back to this map and Alberta’s resources, the Venezuela strike came along. I don’t know a whole lot about the oil business – but the little I do know tells me that Venezuela’s thick crude isn’t a whole lot different than Alberta’s oil. Heck, Venezuela’s oil was being refined in the US before World War II. It’s back.