A very strong supporter of upgrading in Alberta, Peter Lougheed made some strong comments during an interview with the CBC. Here are some excerpts from his interview:
“We should be refining the bitumen in Alberta and we should make it public policy in the province,”
“I would prefer…we process the bitumen from the oilsands in Alberta and that would create a lot of jobs and job activity,” he said.
“That would be a better thing to do than merely send the raw bitumen down the pipeline and they refine it in Texas that means thousands of new jobs in Texas.”
The full interview with Peter Lougheed can heard on the CBC website.
*These comments occur about 17:30 min into the interview.
