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‘It’s a garbage poll’: Danielle Smith criticizes survey suggesting Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on oil and gas (www.ctvnews.ca)
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The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.

“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Back when I was a kid there were pumpjacks all over the southwestern portion of Manitoba, dotting the sunflower fields.

And we still pump oil today.

  • Manitoba has two oil and gas producing sedimentary basins with potential for oil and gas production, southwest Manitoba and the Hudson Bay lowlands.

  • Producible oil was discovered in southwestern Manitoba in the 1950’s. This area has produced oil since 1951.

  • All Manitoba's current oil production is located in southwest Manitoba along the northeastern flank of the Williston Basin, a sedimentary basin that also occupies portions of southern Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.

  • Manitoba produced 2,201,087.5 m3 of oil in 2020.

https://www.manitoba.ca/iem/petroleum/oilfacts/index.html