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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Shii Mauch 2001 editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Manitoba advantage Manitoba Hydro estimates that the electricity it produces with water for Export has had the effect of cutting Carbon dioxide emissions from american Coa fired generating plants by 157 million tonnes Over the past 30 that a huge environmental Benefit for which no profit was realized until very no one paid much attention to such seemingly incidental environmental concern about global warming caused by is changing atmospheric pollution rapidly is becoming some thing of a commodity that could be traded in order to meet global Environ mental agreements such As the Kyoto which require signatories to reduce c02 pro in this will reduce global warm ing and prevent the potentially disastrous climatic Manitoba clean Hydro electricity is becoming More valuable As a Manitoba Hydro electricity is no longer Worth Only what someone is willing to pay to Light bulbs or operate foundries it now has the additional value of being Able to reduce c02 in practical that could mean that the United states would be required to pay Manitoba a Premium for electricity generated Here in order to reduce the need to use Coal the same could be True for the governments of or even the government of which has committed the nation to reduce c02 emissions even though the if applied equally in every would have different impacts across if for which is heavily reliant on Fossil fuels to generate were forced to meet the same Standard As which relies on it could have disastrous consequences for could perhaps Trade Albertas disadvantage for Manitoba advantage to meet Federal to do it would seem necessary that Ottawa compensate it also is possible that Ottawa could Cre ate programs that would steer Industry to Manitoba in order to encourage economic development in Canada without encouraging growth in greenhouse Gas the possibilities for using not Only Manitoba electricity but its added value for reducing seem which could be Why the doer govern ment has made Manitoba Hydro future a key component of the mandate of a task Force created to help develop a Manitoba strategy on climate the task headed by former external affairs minister Lloyd usefully can examine ways in which Manitoba Hydro could fit into a larger strategy for the not Only of the global but also the particular economic Benefit of until has largely failed to exploit the advantages its vast water resources Long have been expected to poker face depending on which Side of the Israel West Bank Border one the role of the United states in the peace process can appear quite from the Point of View of Yasser Arafat and the the seems to favour since the jewish state gets about billion a year in from an israeli Point of the situation is not quite so the United states under a Succes Sion of presidents has left Little doubt that it is a Friend of but for surrounded by ene Mies dedicated to their that Little doubt is enough to intensify feelings of with each presidential both sides Gamble on where the new president will come this israels new prime Ariel was in Washington putting israels Case to president George one of the Points that Sharon emphasized was that Bush should not meet with because so would legitimize the terror of the launched by the palestinian Leader in the dying Days of the Clinton presidency and after former israeli prime minister Ehud Barak had offered him extraordinary concessions to achieve a peace Bush conceded to Sharon one of his key requests that Washington would not push for a resumption of peace negotiations As Long As the palestinian inspired violence that is unpleasant news for whose Hope is that continued violence will push the americans to push the israelis into a settlement More to his neither was the visit entirely Good news for Bush refused to show his hand to either he refused to agree not to meet with and he made it Clear that he regards any further expansion of jewish settlements in the occupied particularly around East As creating an obstacle to Sharon has been an outspoken advocate of extend ing the the Sharon Bush meeting offered an indication that the new american president will try to play the fair dealer in the Mideast peace the is not the Only International player in this poker Europe has a seat at the As does the europeans and which has seemed uninterested in calling Arafat Bluff in votes at the should learn something from the poker face that Bush portrayed this May be the Best Way to a peace agreement from which everyone can emerge As a u v were that v1as Bow tithe Back after this commercial break with news weather reports in the 21st Century yanks Are taking our Gas in a few Manitoban May see the Winter of 200001 As the Good times when they Only faced a threefold hike in their heating by they May not be Able to buy natural Gas at any a new report by a University of Alberta Energy economist published by the University Park lands Institute warns that massive new Gas pipeline Export capacity bypassing Manitoba and Saskatchewan to truck natural Gas into the heartland and then up into Ontario undermines Tran Canada pipelines and Security of Supply for Prairie Larry in a report entitled Energy free Trade and the Price we commissioned by the Institute and the Council of Cana chronicles government and business actions that in most nations would be seen As last two Alliance and went into they take almost two billion cubic feet More natural Gas annually than Ever before into the mar ratcheting up Canadas Gas exports to nearly five billion cubic feet a year out of a total production of billion cubic these pipelines were built at the insistence of the Canadian Independent Gas producers Over the objections of Tran Canada top dates from the quaint Era of Canadian when business and politics As they did with the railway in the 19th to create an Independent nation in the Northern half of North top is a White parked by a Market ideology that has reached destructive proper Pratt Points out that if Canadas Western sedimentary Basin was still producing Gas at the rate it was 20 years the pipelines and the ideology be As but the sedimentary basins Wells Are declining rapid new finds Are either in Remote and environmentally sensitive or accessible but the Gas that poisons people and Ani Canada could begin warning customers of its looming need to Canada signed two free Trade agreements that alienate canadians from their own nonrenewable resources Dedi Cating them instead to fuelling the american dream until they Are and those Pratt didst come about because the americans demanded they happened because Canadian Trade negotiators insisted upon them to pre vent the Federal government from Ever again intervening in the no Continental Energy marketplace to protect Canadas Gas exports allow the to retain a Small surplus of its but when Canadas supplies Are the has no obligation to share that surplus with sounds implausible Here is Pratt if the accelerating Trade and investment flows continue to strengthen North South Energy then the rationale for East West physical the Tran Canada Gas pipeline could be Consumers Between Alberta and Ontario might Well lose their Access to the which was built As a political As Well As a commercial Wager on this country the ghost of the National Energy program kept sending Shivers through the Canadian designers of Naftal the North american free Trade agreement As they lunched at the free Trade this who May have resembled former prime minister Pierre Trudeau or his Energy Marc was one that Many Western and Trudeau Brian hoped to Bury by strengthening the hands of the americans and tying their and what does proportional Access is Pratt if the Canadian government wanted to Cut Back Gas exports by 20 per cent it would have to treat Domestic Consumers the same As the Export As is approximately the Case with natural Canada had exported 60 per cent and consumed 40 per cent for the previous three proportionality would favour the on a americans would be free to Purchase 60 per cent of the remain ing Canadian Supply with Canadian Consumers having to Settle for the in a recent Mulroney was asked if a Continental Energy Market was in Canadas you we have 30 Mil lion what Are we going to do sit on it Oil and Gas forever including the millions of West Erners who dont live in the Calgary Oil know it is they who have been brutally penal and 3 locate the Centre and go there spare a kind thought for Paul the mayor of the departure of Boeing head office from Seattle is just the latest in a series of calamities that befell his just a couple of years Seattle was the most perfect nature gave it a stunningly Beautiful setting on puget sound and a mild climate where the Sun shines Sev Era Days each Bill the aircraft and Bill the software gave it two Gigantic and profitable migrants flooded in from All parts of the United states during the 1990s to smell the the booming regional Economy financed first rate social services and a delicate concern for the then came the the Federal government set about pulling apart the company Bill Gates the Seattle Summit of the world Trade organization in november and december 1999 was marked by Street a earthquake on the last Day february this year reminded Seattle residents that they Are precariously perched on the Edge of shifting plates of earths then this week Boeing said it would choose a new head office location in Early summer Dallas or the plan making plants will stay but the corporate decision makers Are Boeing chairman Phil Condit and others were spending too much time travelling on planes instead of Selling we Are seeking a world Headquarters that offers easy Access to global provides a Strong pro business allows easy Access to major Boe ing operations and provides a diverse and educated work Condit the crack about a pro business environment seemed like a dig at Washington state taxes and labour but his first complaint against Seattle was its something along the lines you cant get there from mayor Glen Murray and every other mayor of every other City except perhaps new York and Atlanta must get a queasy feeling when they read those remarks and think of the corporate Headquarters they might lose if their leading executives get tired of flying to Distant if the top officials of Boeing Are too far out of the Loop in How can Calgary Hope to keep Canadian Pacific and How can Winnipeg Hope to keep greatest life this is not just a blow to this is a blow to the idea of the regional Preston mannings announcement this week that he will soon retire from parliament Drew attention to another prob Lem of regions that Are out of the the Reform movement he founded helped destroy the progressive conservative party and the thinking of the ruling Liberal party but it found that you cannot win National elections in Canada by advancing West Ern regional Manning persuaded the great majority of reformers that they could not achieve Power As a regional like the Boe ing executives in they found out you cant get there from so he got them to turn themselves into the Canadian Alliance with a new Brand and new As it turned they got them selves a new Leader while they were at it but voters East of Manitoba were not impressed with the the election last fall seemed to show Alliance supporters you cant get there from Tommy Douglas and the old Kcf probably had More Impact on Canada than Preston Manning and the Reform state run health insurance is one of Canadas most distinctive sometimes a Blessing and sometimes a curse but a constant preoccupation that is growing to be the leading reason Why taxes Are collected in Douglas governed Saskatchewan and once his government established medicare in one province the s rest of the country wanted the same thing i and the face of Canada in that a regional party changed the country without Ever winning a National what i draw from beings experience and Preston mannings goes something like this there is a Centre and there is a where you Are depends on what youre trying to Calgary looks like a but if you want to Amend the criminal which is under the control of Calgary is on the Seattle is a Centre for the Microsoft Empire but if you want to sell jumbo jets and bal Listic missiles Seattle is at the there is no Point sit Ting on the margin complain ing that it is not the what you have to do is locate the Centre and go or else notice what youre at the Centre of and take an interest in terry.moore@fr8epress.mb.ca Winnipeg free press Winnie r w est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 vol 129 n0105 2001 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a of the Manitoba press Council Rudy publisher email Nicholas Patrick Deputy editor ;