Subhead:A University of Alberta law professor is implying that Canada would embargo Alberta’s oil and gas exports if the province became independent.#
In a CBC article imagining trade in a post-secession scenario, University of Alberta law professor Andrew Leach implied the rest of Canada could move toward sourcing its oil and gas supplies from other countries if Alberta became independent.
While this is technically true, the transportation network for oil and gas in North America wouldn’t change at all in the short term and is unlikely to change dramatically in the long term even if Alberta becomes a new country.
Economics and geography tend to trump political differences when a country is sourcing energy supplies. That’s why Canada shunned expanding Alberta’s pipeline network eastward for generations.
Despite the added security of increasing the consumption of energy from domestic sources and the economic benefit it would bring to Alberta by facilitating more Western Canadian oil and gas pipelines to Eastern Canada, the nation found it to be cheaper simply to dismiss Alberta’s oil and gas and to buy from foreign sources.
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