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A group of prominent Quebecers have collaboratively signed a “Manifesto to benefit collectively from our oil,” that basically aims at pushing the Parti Québécois government to authorize oil exploration in the province in order to confirm the potential for commercializing the resource. Among the 11 most leading and significant signatories of the manifesto are Former PQ Premier, Bernard Landry, and former Liberal finance minister, Monique Jérome-Forget, while others include noticeable businesspeople.
On the official website, the signatories have brought attention to the fact that “there are no magic solutions” to resolving Quebec’s debt problem and rapidly slowing working-age population growth, it stressed that “we need to roll up our sleeves, a bit like we did during the Quiet Revolution. One way to get there is to take advantage of our natural resources, specifically oil.” This manifesto is prompted by the Pauline Marois’s separatist government’s preparations to pass a legislation in 2014 that will regulate the hydrocarbon industry.
Though the government does not seem really interested in retrieving natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, they have been steadily supported oil development with the proper environmental safeguards. Last June, Quebec confirmed it would move forward with exploratory drilling on Anticosti. Several mainstream companies, including Shell Canada and Penzoil, are conducting searches for oil and gas in Quebec since the end of the 19th century, majority of which concentrate in the sedimentary basins of the Gaspé Peninsula and the St. Lawrence River lowlands. However, no sustained commercial oil production has yet happened.
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