Posted on 02/18/2009 11:39:01 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
CALGARY - U.S. President Barack Obama says Alberta's oilsands industry "creates a big carbon footprint" that leaves Canada and America facing an environmental dilemma about how to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from energy development. He also says he's eyeing carbon capture and storage as a possible solution.
As the public-relations war between industry and environmental groups heats up over the oilsands - the second-largest oil reserves on the planet next to Saudi Arabia - the massive development in northern Alberta has clearly caught the eye of the 44th U.S. president.
Obama has previously vowed to end America's addiction to "dirty, dwindling and dangerously expensive" oil, and on Tuesday he offered more insight into how he plans to do just that.
On the eve of his Thursday trip to Ottawa for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama said Canada must partner with the U.S. to find ways to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from petroleum extraction if both countries' economies are to grow in the future.
"What we know is that oilsands creates a big carbon footprint. So the dilemma that Canada faces, the United States faces, and China and the entire world faces is, how do we obtain the energy that we need to grow our economies in a way that is not rapidly accelerating climate change?" Obama told CBC News on Tuesday.
"To the extent that Canada and the United States can collaborate on ways that we can sequester carbon, capture greenhouse gases before they're emitted into the atmosphere, that's going to be good for everybody," he added.
"Because if we don't, then we're going to have a ceiling at some point, in terms of our ability to expand our economies and maintain the standard of living that's so important."
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“On the eve of his Thursday trip to Ottawa for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama said Canada must partner with the U.S. to find ways to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from petroleum extraction if both countries’ economies are to grow in the future.”
There he goes again, “dictating.” /sarc
Fabulous, President Obama has now added Canada to his list of countries he’s PO’d.
President Obama is such an intellectual lightweight it’s unbelievable. I cannot believe someone who’s close to my own age has so little experience or wisdom to draw on.
I can’t even say President Obama is book smart. For all of the posturing by the left about how “dumb” President Bush is, President Obama certainly is not making a good case for being smarter than President Bush.
After Obama has brought the country to its knees with bad policies, the sheeple will look back to him to save them from their misery, all the while blaming Bush for all their ills and demanding their share of money from those left who actually pay taxes.
CO2 is not a pollutant.
DENIER!!
;-)
So....if tomorrow we found the world’s biggest oil reserves under Southern Illinois, he would pass on developing them due to the carbon footprint? Unbelievable. This is what happens when you believe your own propaganda.
“... how do we obtain the energy that we need to grow our economies in a way that is not rapidly accelerating climate change?” Obama told CBC News on Tuesday.”
The answer is obvious. Nuclear Power.
Great! 18.5% of our crude oil imports come from Canada and Zero goes there and pisses them off.
The Obamaloon couldn’t pick out carbon in a pile of charcoal.
Perhaps one (of the many) reasons the loon won’t release his “education” records is that either he took no science at all, or got his richly deserved “F” in the elementary courses he did take.
Yes. He would. He's a well brainwashed, teleprompter reading ideologue.
Amazing how he now plans to achieve energy independence by not drilling, not building nuclear plants, not mining coal, and not buying energy from the Canadian oil sands or our own shale.
I work tirelessly to ensure that my carbon footprint is as large as possible. Tonight I’ll be grilling steaks over way too much charcoal, and then I’ll just let the coals burn themselves out. Mmmmmmm......
There is a massive reserve under Illinois. Its called coal.
Don’t worry, if Obama doesn’t like our oil the Chinese will be glad to have it.
A “big carbon footprint’ is what is done when you try to generate lots of power via solar cells or by tilling up massive amounts of dirt to grow corn from ethanol.
Hydrocarbons extraction have a very low footprint, with the only lower one being nuclear power generation.
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=174
I hope Mr. Harper shows The Zero the door...................
Like the rest of his ilk, he is nothing more than a smug punk.
I’m sure Bombardier is really fond of The Zero right about now...............
By way of a weekend stop in Chicago.
Didn’t o return to DC before he went to Denver? ie:DC-Chicago-DC-Denver.
Hmmmmm...International Oil vs. Obama.
I’m thinking “Bambi Meets Godzilla”, a crowd-pleaser from years back.
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