Ottawa

After 34 years of peaceful co-existence, friction has erupted between EnCana Corp., Canada’s top producer, and Ottawa’s Department of National Defense (DND) over a windswept Alberta plain that doubles as a prolific natural gas field and a military training range.

After 34 years of peaceful co-existence, friction has erupted between EnCana Corp., Canada’s top producer, and Ottawa’s Department of National Defense (DND) over a windswept Alberta plain that doubles as a prolific natural gas field and a military training range.

Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn, joined by Minister of the Environment John Baird, announced last week in Ottawa, ON that Canada’s new government is taking “another important step” to protect the environment and the health of Canadians by introducing national standards for lighting efficiency to come into force by 2012. The standards include the banning of all inefficient incandescent light bulbs.

Government observers in Ottawa, convinced the North American market has entered an era of tight supplies and high prices, anticipate a steady rise in the value of Canadian natural gas as far ahead as their computer projections can see.

Government observers in Ottawa, convinced the North American market has entered an era of tight supplies and high prices, anticipate a steady rise in the value of Canadian natural gas as far ahead as their computer projections can see.