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Half of the UCP members want Alberta to separate, so it's understandable why Smith got booed at the convention. No deal with Ottawa will ever be good enough with her base, unless it's full separation.
The memory of Exxon Valdez is a long one. It's true - an oil tanker spill/rupture would be disastrous for the North Coast. But, modern tankers are double-hulled and there would be pilotage through the waters. You don't really hear too much about major oil tanker accidents these days. The demand for oil is still strongest in Asia because India and China and other countries in southeast Asia are still using oil. It makes very little sense to build a new oil pipeline to Hudson Bay because Europeans are weaning themselves off of oil pretty quickly.
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