{"id":5634,"date":"2012-03-06T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T13:51:29","slug":"are-you-comfortable-using-canadian-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/06\/are-you-comfortable-using-canadian-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you comfortable using Canadian energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5635\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/06\/are-you-comfortable-using-canadian-energy\/keystone1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5635\" title=\"keystone1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/keystone1-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/keystone1-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/keystone1-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/keystone1-389x450.jpg 389w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/keystone1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>If you live in the Northeast, there&#8217;s a good chance that at least some of the time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/19434\/20120306\/new-york-and-the-us-look-to-canada-for-energy-raising-big-questions-about-the-environment\">your life is running on Canadian electricity<\/a>.\u00a0 Canada also provides a growing chunk of American petroleum imports &#8212; about as much as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela combined.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s energy industry says their exports are an &#8220;ethical&#8221; alternative to oil from the Middle East, and from other parts of the world where environmental laws are far less stringent.<\/p>\n<p>But many green groups say Canada is paying far too high a price in environmental degradation, with the flooding of vast river valleys for hydro power in northern Quebec, and the sprawling tar sands development in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The latest flashpoint is the Keystone XL pipeline, which would accelerate oil imports from our northern neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Is this a good relationship?\u00a0 Is the price too high?\u00a0 If so, what are the alternatives?\u00a0 As always, your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the Northeast, there&#8217;s a good chance that at least some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,10,883,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}