Andrew Leach, the Enbridge Professor of Energy at the University of Alberta, said current oil production is not the issue. The impact that this government is having is not on production today, said the energy economist. This is a longterm industry. So things the government has done in the last two and a half years have created more uncertainly and have stoked some of the opposition. That leads to long-run impacts. Cleland argues public suspicions were raised needlessly by burying controversial environmental changes in omnibus budget bills and curtailing debate, which silenced a full airing of the pros and cons of the moves. Cleland was also sharply critical of the governments decision to politicize the National Energy Board by giving the cabinet final approval. The loss of public support, I think it borders on being crippling, said the industry executive. Leach also contends the government should have served as a broker between energy project proponents and objectors. They chose the opposite approach, he said. They chose to kick sand in the face of the environmental movement in Canada. They chose to talk down to American objections. They chose to take a very heavy-handed approach in terms of talking up the possibility of not needing the U.S. market. Stephen Harpers bonehead approach to energy policy is the reason Bitumen is landlocked and could possibly remain that way...had he operated on the up and up instead of trying to hide everything from science to climate change the world may have gave Harper and Canada the benefit of doubt with respect to how we do business...Stephens used car salesman approach has the rest of the world seeing him for what he is....and Canada will be paying for that boneheads approach for a long time.
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