Oil sands will be Canada’s economic engine for next 25 to 30 years

Cliffy

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Indeed we do need to survive our harsh climate. Once you have nat gas there the skies will be clear and asthma rates will plummet. NG is the future of energy, not oil, not solar and not wind.
I produce a lot of natural gas but I can't figure out how to harness it to keep me warm or cook my food.
 

taxslave

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Nakusp is too remote and too small a population for them to build a pipeline here. Most of the power generated by IPPs are going to the US while our environment, wildlife and fisheries take a beating. Nobody here wants them around and the fight is just getting into high gear. The Valhalla Wilderness Society has just sent out a notice world wide for support to stop these greed bastards.

Yea all those good paying jobs and taxes that companies provide for you freeloaders must be hard to take. Funny how people that don't work don't want anyone else to either. But they want all the taxpayer supplied goodies.
 

Jenson

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Yea all those good paying jobs and taxes that companies provide for you freeloaders must be hard to take. Funny how people that don't work don't want anyone else to either. But they want all the taxpayer supplied goodies.
25 years? Just in time to destroy the environment.....yippee!
 

darkbeaver

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"Oil sands will be Canada’s economic engine for next 25 to 30 years"

I call BS on the very misleading headline. There is no production capacity in Canada to burn the fuel. That capacity is twenty five years away even if they decided to rebuild it, which I am sure they won't until they is changed to we. But in the meantime there will be one very thirsty customer until it is crushed the western war machine will require every bit of NA fuel it can get both for domestic civilian suppression and protracted international conflict.
 

petros

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20% of the oil sands are labour intensive mining operations, when that is gone in 40 years some of the jobs will vanish in the oil sands and shift towards the massive oil deposits in the Yukon Mackenzie River Valley and deeper oil shales beneath the Bakken and other kerogen sources
That another hundred years of work beyond the next forty.
 

whitedog

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Canada’s oil sands are key to the country’s prosperity and for it to grow, the industry needs more pipelines, more collaboration, and dialogue that does not fuel “a climate of antagonism,” said a report by Deloitte Canada.
There was dissent back then about spending all that money on the railway, but now we ask how could you not have done that. It is the same with the oil sands
“Proponents of development argue in favour of the economic benefits while opponents argue those benefits aren’t worth the environmental risk,” said the report, entitled Gaining Ground in the Sands 2013. “From our perspective, growth of oil sands is key to continued growth in Canadian prosperity.


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Deloitte: Oil sands to be Canada’s economic engine for 25 to 30 years | Energy | News | Financial Post
Great. One pony show for another 25-30 years. Maybe our political parties should scour the universities for an economist for their next leader. Oh, uh, strike that. My bad.
 

darkbeaver

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20% of the oil sands are labour intensive mining operations, when that is gone in 40 years some of the jobs will vanish in the oil sands and shift towards the massive oil deposits in the Yukon Mackenzie River Valley and deeper oil shales beneath the Bakken and other kerogen sources
That another hundred years of work beyond the next forty.

Oil is divine.
 

taxslave

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Great. One pony show for another 25-30 years. Maybe our political parties should scour the universities for an economist for their next leader. Oh, uh, strike that. My bad.

Nope, just the major one. Still got coal, NG, potash and a whole host of minerals to exploit. If Ontario and Quebec were not so fukked politically they too could get in on the gold.
 

petros

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Nope, just the major one. Still got coal, NG, potash and a whole host of minerals to exploit. If Ontario and Quebec were not so fukked politically they too could get in on the gold.

SK has the lion's share of urainium too. So called "green energy".
 

darkbeaver

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Oil goes into the engine it isn't the engine. Oil is an engine fuel, look it up,

Dirtiest and most dangerous energy known to man. I've had several conversations with anti fossil fuel types that soon show themselves to be shills for the nu clear industry.

Disaster is not an industry, dad told me that. They leak all over the planet, but CO2 is the problem du jour. Plant food is a problem because it feeds us useless eaters.
The Canada food guide promotes the consumption of veggies and at the same time another disconnecvted government dept tries to starve the veggies and drive up the cost of production in odious imported CO2.Strangling the domestic producers.
 

darkbeaver

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Disaster has become an industry for bureaucraps. They spend billions on plans for things that will never happen.

Exactly, and never could happen, they would lose money if it did happen


If you don't have an engine (economy) you hardly need a lot of oil to run it.

Dirtiest and most dangerous energy known to man. I've had several conversations with anti fossil fuel types that soon show themselves to be shills for the nu clear industry.
The fossil load of several solar systyems, our size and thirst, has been consumed since 1783. Where did it come from?
 

whitedog

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Disaster has become an industry for bureaucraps. They spend billions on plans for things that will never happen.
yeah until a train roles into town.

Nope, just the major one. Still got coal, NG, potash and a whole host of minerals to exploit. If Ontario and Quebec were not so fukked politically they too could get in on the gold.
funny that, I didn't hear revenues, gdp sagging because a drop in potash. But your right, lots of other things/ products, coal, canadian porn, Burger King, macs milk. Wow, what was I thinking.
 

mentalfloss

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This article proves that we will be transitioning into a different energy economy lol