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Canada is great, nice people, everywhere is clean, great mountains and countryside and no reliance on North Sea Gas.
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What's North Sea Gas, as our children will one day ask us...
Canada does have large uranium deposits, which is interesting*. Of course, if we all start building nuclear reactors, we'll start to run out of uranium, too. Let's have a tidal barrage or two, then.
* There's a lot in Australia too, and the French have kept a tight post-colonial hold on Niger for precisely the same reason, having thought ahead a bit thirty or so years ago and closed the mining industry (to avoid strikes) and gone big-time nuclear (to avoid having to suck up to too many Middle Eastern sods. Except Saddam Hussein of course, but hey, who didn't?). Russia and IIRC Kazakhstan have a lot of uranium, too. We have, er, zip. Once the oil and gas has gone it's coal, wind, wave or buying it off some foreigners at whatever the market price is at the moment (the pound has just plummeted against the Euro, which oil is starting to be traded in as the US dollar implodes. Still think it's a good idea to stay out?).