B.C. and Alberta in dirty fight over oil profit

[petros]

Hmmmmmm???

Apes take over zoo

Apes then demand more bananas

Bananas are given to apes after being returned to their cages.

Are the apes better off?

 

[beaker]

First of all I am behind Alberta on this one. We should not get royalties for
accepting oil from that Province. Besides this is not a fight over profits it is
about royalties big difference. It would set a terrible precedent to allow it to
happen.
If Christie Clarke wants benefits from the oil shipped through BC she should
impose taxes upon them, which can be done. This is the last desperate stand
by a government of lies and deceit and it won't help people a bloody bit.
We in Canada not just BC would benefit from resource strategy. It could apply
to oil and gas, metals and a host of other products. We could build refineries and
storage facilities that would see things like oil going east/west and we could t hen
control our own energy supply and stop importing.
Christie is short sighted and desperate and above all self serving as hell. She
needs to go and after the election she will.
Remember this is not about profit, its about trying to play the business and the
environment cards at the same time and it will backfire on her in the end.

My problem with a National Energy Strategy, is that with Redford and Harper designing it you know that it will give little or no consideration to anything other than the development of fossil fuels. That would be fine if it was our only or even our best option. It would be okay if it wasn't meant to be viewed and used as a stand alone and somehow isolated from the reality of the impacts of fossil fuels. But those impacts are all around us and for me it is hard to fathom how elected officials like these two can be so obtuse. Like the BC Liberal/ conservative/ Social Credit party it is time they are gone.

Clarke is playing the business and environment cards together. She doesn't seem to understand that playing isn't enough. An energy strategy that works will be part of an environmental strategy that works. Part of Harpers Responsible Development program is to see that Environmental Review processes are "predictable"... That has to be the stupidest thing that I have ever heard from any government anytime.

 

[taxslave]

There is a simple way to pretty well ensure nothing goes wrong, the head honcho gets fired and fined $1 million! :lol:

Add 3 more zeros.

 

[petros]

That'll buy a lot of bananas.

 

[taxslave]

Christy is playing to the home town audience. It is all about money. When enough money is put on the table the pipeline will be built.
Tricky Dix has staked himself out an untenable position by simply saying no he is depending on the green vote at the expense of his traditional union support, most of which need the jobs. Working people, unlike the greenies have mortgages to pay and kids to put through school and can not do this on low paying tourism and senior care jobs. Dix would like to turn BC back into a have not province just like the last time the NDP were in power. Other than government employees that will be even better off than government workers in Spain and Greece.

 

[petros]

It's being built no matter how many bananas Clark cries for.

 

[taxslave]

My problem with a National Energy Strategy, is that with Redford and Harper designing it you know that it will give little or no consideration to anything other than the development of fossil fuels. That would be fine if it was our only or even our best option. It would be okay if it wasn't meant to be viewed and used as a stand alone and somehow isolated from the reality of the impacts of fossil fuels. But those impacts are all around us and for me it is hard to fathom how elected officials like these two can be so obtuse. Like the BC Liberal/ conservative/ Social Credit party it is time they are gone.

Clarke is playing the business and environment cards together. She doesn't seem to understand that playing isn't enough. An energy strategy that works will be part of an environmental strategy that works. Part of Harpers Responsible Development program is to see that Environmental Review processes are "predictable"... That has to be the stupidest thing that I have ever heard from any government anytime.

Harper is right. The process has to be predictable. The outcome does not. It also has to be done in a reasonable timeframe without interference from foreign greenies.

 

[petros]

Just Redford and Harper eh? No Wall, no Alward ,no Dunderdale,no Selinger ? New Brunswick wants upgraders, will McSquinty demand bananas instead of keys to the cage too?

 

[taxslave]

Has anyone got any idea of Quebec 's position on oil going through there? Or do we simply make a slight detour south around them?

 

[petros]

Has anyone got any idea of Quebec 's position on oil going through there? Or do we simply make a slight detour south around them?

**** the NDPQ!

 

[Kreskin]

It's quite a coincidence that after 42 years of refusing to participate in a national energy plan suddenly Alberta thinks its a great idea.

 

[petros]

It's quite a coincidence that after 42 years of refusing to participate in a national energy plan suddenly Alberta thinks its a great idea.

maybe because it's impossible to tie the two together?

 

[Kreskin]

Harper has as much on the line here as Clark. She might even have him by the short and curlies, given he's an MP in Calgary.

 

[taxslave]

Simple solution. SInce all the greenies claim the Arctic ocean will soon be ice free build the Mackenzie pipeline only run it the other way and put a deep sea port there. Gives Alberta a port and Canada a good presence in the Arctic.

It's quite a coincidence that after 42 years of refusing to participate in a national energy plan suddenly Alberta thinks its a great idea.

BUt this one ie Alberta's plan to Sell oil in the east, Not Ontario's plan to take cheap oil from the West.

 

[petros]

Harper has as much on the line here as Clark. She might even have him by the short and curlies, given he's an MP in Calgary.

LMFAO! She is just trying to cut nat gas investment losses by stickling it to AB/SK

Simple solution. SInce all the greenies claim the Arctic ocean will soon be ice free build the Mackenzie pipeline only run it the other way and put a deep sea port there. Gives Alberta a port and Canada a good presence in the Arctic

Polar bears will be happy to have the money and jobs. They won't need to rely on Coca Cola anymore.

 

[JLM]

Has anyone got any idea of Quebec 's position on oil going through there? Or do we simply make a slight detour south around them?

I think the St. Lawrence River would be a perfectly good corridor, easy grades and minimal excavation! :smile:

 

[petros]

I think the St. Lawrence River would be a perfectly good corridor, easy grades and minimal excavation! :smile:

The St. Larry....Canada's biggest eco-abomination. Maybe we should close it?

 

[JLM]

The St. Larry....Canada's biggest eco-abomination. Maybe we should close it?

And we could have a big lake reaching right to the Rocky Mountains!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ooooooooooh oooooooooooh, there goes Saskatchewan! :lol: And the Missisip could take the overflow!

 

[beaker]

Harper is right. The process has to be predictable. The outcome does not. It also has to be done in a reasonable timeframe without interference from foreign greenies.

I don't think Harper is talking about the process. He and his cronies want the outcomes to be set before they spend money on them. And what is a reasonable timeframe? When the environment is being sacrificed how long would you say we should spend determining whether or not, sorry, determining that we are going ahead?

 

[lone wolf]

And we could have a big lake reaching right to the Rocky Mountains!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ooooooooooh oooooooooooh, there goes Saskatchewan! :lol: And the Missisip could take the overflow!

Good luck getting it back up over the Niagara ;-)

...maybe if it's changed from an N to a V