Tag: NATO

The Financial Post is pleased to report that Suncor Energy Inc., along with other oil companies, is preparing to return to the Libyan oil fields. After six months of intense fighting that shut down oil-production facilities and forced massive evacuations of expatriate oil workers, Libya’s future as a place to do business brightened dramatically as leaders of the Libyan uprising met with world powers in Paris to map out the country’s rebuilding and Canada lifted unilateral economic sanctions imposed last February. My emphasis. And that, after all, is what this has mainly been about, isn’t it? It wasn’t a matter of ensuring that Libyans could control their own destiny. It was about ensuring that the right Libyans ended up in control of the oil fields — the Libyans who were already on good terms with NATO countries, who were already in favour of privatizing Libya’s oil and who would be agreeable to giving easy access to the countries who helped them take control. Until recently I’d been thinking of NATO as an organization desperately seeking justification for its own existence since the original threat it was to protect against had faded. Now I think of NATO as just one more…