Salty rich guy offers bribe to remove Notley
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How much extra are you paying on a bailed out FIAT/Chrysler?Where's my double standard?
I am proposing a Made in Canada Oil price for Canadian Oil only.
There would be no tax handout from governments required as the users of that Oil (gas) would pay the extra to insure employment.
The general consensus is $30.00 is the break even point for the Tar Sands operation. Right now gas is selling (near me) for about 83 cents. It costs me around $48.00 to fill up and it lasts a week or longer depending on where I have to go but usually a week.
If the Made in Canada Price resulted in me paying 10 to 15 cents a liter more ($6-9) more a week but was saving those jobs, resulting in less UI claims, suicides, divorces etcetera, and no government handouts, I would happily do it ....
Easier said than done. The mere mention of a pipeline is enough to bring the environmental lobby out in force, and they are a force to be reckoned with these days.
Finally a response other than get rid of Notley just because.......
Although B.C. formally registered its opposition to the $6.8-billion project on Monday, Notley told reporters at the legislature she believes there is “still a path forward” to get it approved.
“We will not get pipelines built by picking fights with other provinces through the media,” she said.
“We will get pipelines built by demonstrating clearly and calmly why pipelines help every economy in this country. And we will get pipelines built by taking real action on climate change.”
The NDP premier, who filed Alberta’s submission in support of the project to the National Energy Board on Tuesday, said she believes the B.C. government’s concerns about the pipeline — its five conditions for approval — are “for the most part, quite reasonable.
Notley said B.C., project proponent Kinder Morgan and the federal government must work together to resolve those concerns, but she will work with B.C. Premier Christy Clark to seek common ground.
“I am going to keep talking until the door is closed.”
Notley noted a lack of pipelines to provide access to international markets results in a “significant discount” in the value of Alberta’s energy products, which hurts all Canadians.
“It doesn’t just impact people in Calgary and Edmonton and in between. It impacts people in downtown Toronto. It impacts people in B.C.,” the premier said.
She said pipeline opponents must realize Canada has a significant economic resource in Alberta.
“You can’t just turn off the tap and walk away from it.”
Kinder Morgan is proposing to increase the capacity of the 1,150-kilometre pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby to 890,000 barrels a day from the current 300,000 barrels.
The NEB is in the final stages of hearing arguments for and against the project and will make its recommendation to the federal Liberal government in May.
B.C. has opposed the project largely on the basis of environmental concerns related to oil spills on land or sea, but also has concerns about recognition of aboriginal rights and the province getting its fair share of the benefits from the project.
Notley’s six-page submission to the NEB says the economic need and benefits of the project are “clear, substantial and undeniable.”
It quotes the Conference Board of Canada’s latest impact figures suggesting the project will provide 123,221 person-years of employment during the first two decades of operation, with 60 per cent of the jobs being created in B.C.
http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/alberta-premier-says-lack-of-oil-pipeline-access-to-coast-hurts-all-canadians
True tay, the proposal hasn't been refused, it's just delayed until Kinder Morgan brings a better offer to the table. Given the opposition that pipelines in general are seeing from the environmental lobby it's up to government to make sure all the t's are crossed and the i's dotted as far a spill prevention/response/and cleanup are concerned. Premier Clark is also intent on seeing some serious cash flow into BC coffers with all that money being piped across BC soil. The project is far from dead, but there is a lot of horse trading to be done yet.
And yet people bitch and whine in Vancouver about gasoline being the highest priced in Nor Am.
A love hate relationship or just two face flakes who will do anything they can to find common ground with people they have absolutely nothing in common with other than geography? People here are scared sh-tless of each other and walk on multicultural egg f-cking shells.
Once or twice a day someone will gaze upward and look me in the eye which keeps me from sitting on the roof with my dear sweet Tikka in my hands allowing them to live another day. Maybe one day I won't take pity on their meaningless lives and put them out of their misery.
A love hate relationship or just two face flakes who will do anything they can to find common ground with people they have absolutely nothing in common with other than geography? People here are scared sh-tless of each other and walk on multicultural egg f-cking shells.
Once or twice a day someone will gaze upward and look me in the eye which keeps me from sitting on the roof with my dear sweet Tikka in my hands allowing them to live another day. Maybe one day I won't take pity on their meaningless lives and put them out of their misery.
It's not the desire that's important so much as the reason! You want to look hard for the one who plans on working hard for 5 years to improve the public good.
Well, if they quit their bitching and whining and took the bus or carpool everyone would be better off.