Sue Riddell Rose and Michael Rose 

I was beginning to wonder if reasonable and sane people still existed in CA. This interview series has renewed my faith somewhat so thank you.

No as a retired oil worker, I am sick of trying to appease idiots. Cut the east and Vancouver off of all oil and let them starve.

Thank you for taking the time to create these videos Rex. They are very interesting and informative.

Canada does not care about Alberta and will deliberately kill the goose that laid the golden egg. But Alberta will not give up without a fight. As Rose says, it’s going to get ugly, no question.

More conversations are needed from the executive ranks.

Very informative discussion thanks very much

Life is not “sustainable” without energy.

Rex is the real things. Thanks

Thank you, Rex, for another great interview with two very knowledgeable and interesting guests. I got a bit of a shock when I saw Mike Rose - he wouldn't remember me, but we met in 1979-1980 when he was starting with Shell as a geologist, and I was working in the radio/telecom business in th oil patch. Alberta is a small town. I think both of your guests spoke very diplomatically, and tried to be as balanced as possible when talking about the sentiments and level of anger in Alberta. Like Mr. Rose, I lived through Pierre Trudeau's N.E.P. (and lost pretty much everything except my socks), and had to pick up the pieces and begin all over again. So many people I knew at that time had their lives destroyed during that time - quite a number took their own lives - and that period left those of us who came through it with a lingering bitterness, and a deep suspicion about the motives of governments compared to their statements and actions. I wound up some years later doing a bit of research in the area of transportation fuels and emissions which hung around for 10-12 years before attracting the interest of a major auto maker. They were able to take the research results and turn them into production engineering, and when they'd finished exhaust emissions for all their engines wre 35% lower. So basic research _does_ pay off, although often not immediately, and often not in the way a researcher envisages things while doing the experimental studies. I was forced to retire early because of health issues probably due in part, at least, to some parts of that research - or perhaps not. There's no way to tell with certainty. But it has left me with almost a decade of time where I've still had many contacts across the province - in the oil and gas and drilling industries, in Agriculture, in "hard science" academia like engineering, and people in the business. I've never seen the amount, or depth of rage that I see today in Alberta. I talk to quite a few people, and I'm hearing the same things over and over: Regardless of how much they love Canada and have deep roots (as I do myself), they feel that Alberta _has_ _not_ _choice_ but to leave Confederation, and quickly. "Wexit" is being touted as a "bargaining tool" started by a few hotheads. But the study of the _Mechanics_ that Separation would require have been studied very seriously by some very smart people for a good number of years. For most of us, Alberta leaving Confederation is something we would prefer not to do. But it is now the ONLY hope that Alberta may survive long enough to save what's left of the people, skills and assets. Canada wants Alberta's money but has declared war on western Canada. I do not use the term lightly. So Separation is the only avenue that many intelligent, respected, and successful people feel has a chance of saving what's left. To stay in Canada is to die.

My husband and son both work in the oil and natural gas industry, or as we call it in Oklahoma, the oil field. My husband drives a water tanker and my 19 year old son is a roustabout. He went to work straight out of high school. My dad worked on his fair share of drilling rigs and my brother in law is a pipe line welder. The industry has fed my entire family for many decades.

A great interview but we tip toe around the real issue. Trudeau and Butts have declared a full frontal attack on Alberta using Canadian tax payer dollars. Their attack is not about a he environment. C48 bans oil tankers that load oil from Canada. It doesn’t affect any of the tankers moving oil from Alaska south. It doesn’t affect any other of the noisy ship traffic including cruise ships. There’s been no attempt ... not one that Im aware, of to reduce coal shipments out of Vancouver harbour which I understand is the largest exporting coal port in North America. There’s no attempt ... not one to my knowledge to curtail tanker imports of “dirty” oil from foreign jurisdictions into eastern Canada. In 2010 Trudeau told LaPresse in a now famous interview that the “socio-democratic power” (whatever that means) needs to be taken back from Alberta. In that same interview he said that Canada belongs to Quebec. His attack on fossil fuels is directed ONLY on western Canadian people who work to produce this wonderful cheap energy from within Canada. He has succeeded. Absolutely shameful. Alberta and Saskatchewan are ANGRY. Well over 100,000 jobs lost. Homes lost. Retirements gone. Suicides up dramatically.

As a northern British Columbian, I am furious at the eastern provinces who just voted to destroy Alberta's economy. They don't want Albertan oil, but they are more than happy to keep on extorting $20 Billion dollars a year from Albertan citizens to feed their socialism. To put that number into perspective, $20 Billion dollars Canadian is about the equivalent of a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a full compliment of aircraft, every single year.

I love my clean Canadian oil and gas! Keep it coming and damn the privileged, hypocrite climate fanatics who never think of the 3 billion people in the world that still live in extreme poverty and need the miracle of fossil fuels to lift them up.

The incompetence level in our current Government is frightening, how do they represent all Canadians when they attack this industry and are destroying the West and then pander to Quebec?? The Carbon Tax is an absolute ridiculous idea for this Country! We need good Leadership from somewhere!

If Canada was energy self sufficient, the people and country would benefit. Who inside and outside of Canada benefit from the status quo?

Thanks for this interview, Rex. I am just starting to learn about fossil fuel production. I've a question about term "cleanest molecule" that is used a few times in this episode. Is it referring to the actual oil or gas products produced by our oil industries, or is it really just about one of the molecules within the products? I would like to ensure I understand and use this term properly. Thank you. Viv.

MSM: WOMEN GOOD. STEM BAD. WOMEN IN STEM GOOD.

Firstly, good on them for making progress, I like that. Secondly, I'm not from Canada but Germany and do not understand what this is is about or the references. It seems to me that all three are defending an economic standpoint against an environmental one. Those are different fundaments in my opinion. What is more important for you is what drives your choice I think, so I don't know why it is debated. But I find interesting what was said in 19:00 : How do they reduce CO2 because I am fairly certain that by burning fuel you must generate CO2. I would like to see the formula for their improved process. Furthermore, what and where are the other things to be cleaned up. CO I guess is one but where does it occur other than by burning fuel? And what do they refer to when they say "the cleanest molecule", what molecule exactly.

Any Canadian who does not understand and appreciate how much the fossil-fuel industry has improved the standard of living in Canada should give up said benefits.

I'd be curious to see Rex revisit the topic of separatism (Wexit) now that Trudeau has been reelected Western Canada once again has no representation in the party that's in control of the country. It's increasingly harder and harder for Albertans to justify the one-way deal they've been trapped in for decades, and it does ultimately boil down to "Taxation without representation."

Is Trudeau's support for auto and steel industries partly due to them being union run? Just wondering.

The glass is half full.

The auto industry has been unionized for decades and politicians recognize the voting power of unions. Conversely, oil and gas has treated its employees very well monetarily which has kept them from feeling the need to unite with one voice to influence government. I haven’t followed politics with interest over my long life so I may be missing something, but it has been a reality over those many years that people from all across Canada who needed jobs headed to the oil fields. We all benefited and should now unite behind the oil and gas industry for the sake of Canada. And one more thing, there is an element of jealousy toward the provinces that have oil and gas that developed over the last half century. Albertans especially have been viewed as the “haves” while other provinces were the “have nots” and the have nots seem to enjoy the current paralysis being imposed on the haves. And one more thing, assuming that building pipelines will bolster the steel industry in Canada isn’ a given since they are also under attack with the current government awarding the building of the LNG project in BC to the Chinese; they are effectively cutting the throat of the Canadian steel industry.

I had a very bad experience investing in Tourmaline Oil. Their stock is overvalued, very much manipulated and has significantly less liquidity than many other Canadian oil/gas stocks.