This New England

According to a story in Cape Cod Today by Timothy Gillespie, the energy-hungry Nova Scotia government wants to end its cooperative (with the U.S.) ban on drilling for oil and gas on the Georges Bank, which the two nations share and which is a prime fishing area.

See CapeCodToday.com for the full story.

U.S. fishermen and the owners of beachfront property on the Cape may holler, but they might not be able to do much about it if the Canadians press ahead with this.

It seems that Canadian businesspeople and government officials want to develop Yarmouth, in southwestern Nova Scotia, as major oil and gas industry support center, especially now that the tourist industry and other business is falling off. All they need is nearby oil and gas to develop, and geologists have said for years there may be major supplies of same on the Georges Bank.

The ocean currents would tend to take the oil spills toward Nova Scotia and away from Cape Cod, but....

Yarmouth would be to our area what Aberdeen is to the British North Sea oil business.

This might make windmills look good even to members of the Oyster Harbors Club and the Kennedy family. Or perhaps Joe Kennedy could make a deal for his Citizens Energy Corporation to get discount oil from the Georges Bank drillers.

 Tags  Cape Cod Today Georges Bank Nova Scotia oil and gas drilling Timothy Gillespie Yarmouth

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