{"id":416285,"date":"2026-01-17T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:39:40","slug":"under-the-donroe-doctrine-albertas-oil-belongs-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416285\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Donroe Doctrine, Alberta&#8217;s oil belongs to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe choice is stark. We can continue clinging to oil, hoping a new American imperial thirst to directly control natural resources doesn&#8217;t turn toward Canadian territory, all while watching the global market for our oil product evaporate. Or we can pivot toward renewable energy, securing both our sovereignty and our economic future.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cema-oil-tar-sands-Fort-McMurray-11576-e1768316910469.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAn aerial view of the Cema oilsands in Fort McMurray, Alta., pictured in 2012. Venezuela&#8217;s crisis should serve as our warning. Before America decides Alberta&#8217;s oil belongs to them, perhaps we should decide it belongs to our past, not our future, writes Tim Gray.  The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The choice is stark. We can continue clinging to oil, hoping a new American imperial thirst to directly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-416285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}