Former PM Brian Mulroney has commented that Canada needs someone with that title to market our resources globally.
He's talking about pipeline and the LNG thing but also this:
Mr. Mulroney described Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining region as a classic example of Canada’s potential – and its problem. It has enormous mineral riches, from gold to copper – as much as $25-billion in economic activity – but has been hamstrung by uncertainty over aboriginal rights, infrastructure limitations and environmental approvals.
“There are days frankly when we seem to be like the fellow who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple,” Mr. Mulroney said. “We take too much of what we have for granted, believing mistakenly that our vast resources will generate prosperity just by being there.”
Here's the thing, we're starting to read this stuff more and more. Not this exactly, but the need to streamline the review process and to get stuff to market. Now Mulroney, for whatever reason, is suddenly championing a whole cohesive plan for Canada's resources.
They're just begging for an opportunity to get some business going. It pains me to think how primed and ready for action these governments are to approve a good solid project.
I wonder if Teck is fundamentally ready to submit the EA but just needs the report from BCHydro so that they can incorporate that into their calculations? The study is due on, or before, May 31st. Perhaps we are waiting on that information to complete the EA.
--http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-calls-on-canada-to-improve-resource-development-u-s-ties-1.2603403
--http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mulroney-calls-on-ottawa-to-appoint-natural-resource-projects-crusader/article17890059/
