There is absolutely no economic argument that can be made in favour of fossil fuel energy generation. Nada, zip, none. It is more expensive and less profitable than using renewables (primarily solar). Even nuclear energy, via simple thorium reactors, presents a better, safer, more sustainable model. Fossil fuel companies just cannot compete economically, and will need massive taxpayer subsidies.

Only a fool, or someone driven entirely by motives of personal profit (a fool by another name) would actually burn fossil fuels to produce energy - the EROI is so horrifically negative. Time to wake up, look to the future, and get on the bus. It's already left without us, and unless Canada gets its act together, we'll be left in a fossil fuel backwater - just like where the US is planning to put itself. It's no coincidence that the massive US military is, by far, the world's largest user of toxic and polluting fossil fuels.

Are we really that dumb in Canada, that we cannot see the obvious?