We'll wait and see. In the meantime you might be suprised at the amounts of oil and natural gas those basket case maritimes are pumping into the Eastern US.
By 2004 Newfoundland isexpected to be producing 400,000 barrels a day .
, Exxon Mobil now estimates the potential conventional offshore oil reserves of Eastern Canada to be 40 billion barrels, compared with 34 billion for Western Canada.
The natural gas reserves of Newfoundland and Labrador are 62 trillion cubic feet. That would provide enough energy for more than 700 million homes for a year. In Nova Scotia, a new 653-mile pipeline is pumping natural gas from the 3.5-trillion-cubic-foot Sable reserve through New Brunswick, Maine and southern New Hampshire to link up with existing pipelines north of Boston.