[Ost-news] Nuclear provider targets tar sands

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Nuclear provider targets oilsands  
Natural gas shortage looms by 2030: Areva  
Shaun Polczer, Calgary Herald  
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Alberta's oilsands industry faces a natural gas shortage by 2030 without new energy sources to offset gas use in oilsands expansions, the head of nuclear power giant Areva Canada Inc. said Monday.

Speaking in Calgary, Areva CEO Armand Laferrere said continued oilsands development would consume virtually all of Canada's current natural gas supply -- some 92 per cent -- by 2030.

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