CANADIAN REMARKS AT LIBBY DAM DEDICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-267-1-19-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 22, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
CONFIDENTIAI. INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL SCOWCROFT
FROM:
August Z2, 1975
SUBJECT; Canadian R at Libby Dam Dedication
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Canadian Energy Minister MacDonald will be standing in for Prime
Minister Trudeau. at the Libby Dam dedication on Sunday, August 24.
Judging by an advance text of Mr. MacDonald's remarks (at Tab A),
he will take the occasion to explain.in some detail Canada's policy on
curtailment of crude oil, and natural gas exports to the United States.
He will say that:
-?? Canada's energy resources, in oil and natural gas are finite.
and that energy planning on both sides of the border has been overly
optimistic.
-- Estimates are that Canadian reserves of oil and gas will be
inadequate to meet domestic needs in the near future and must be
conserved for Canadian use.
-- Ottawa will, take an especially sympathetic view towards customers
of longest-standing in the United States, particularly those with no
alternative sources of supply.