Um, Alberta should be #4 ahead of Iran. According to the latest, Alberta has the 4th highest reserves. Just thought I'd put it out there. That's why the U.S. needs our oil. The issue is if Venezuela starts sending its oil to the U.S. Gulf states, Alberta may well be SOL!!“Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world,” said Richard Masson, a former Canadian oil industry executive. “They’re primarily heavy oil and bitumen, which are very much like what Canada’s reserves are here in the oil sands.”
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Experts say political instability in Venezuela had long given Canadian oil producers the advantage, but if Trump can topple the Maduro government, it could mean increased competition.
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“This makes it all the more important for us to think about sending out oil to the pacific, to a northwest pacific pipeline, knowing that the Asian market is growing,” said Heather Exner-Pirot, a senior fellow and director of natural resources, energy and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Somehow completely forgotten in the above graph, intentionally or not, is Canada:
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Exner-Pirot suggests Trump’s interest in Venezuelan oil could eventually force a fight for access to the U.S. market. Masson says it may take long for the impact of those tensions to take effect.
“The question becomes: If Venezuela became a democracy, with the rule of law, with a stable investment climate, how long would it take to build the projects to displace western Canadian oil?” Masson said. “I think that would take a long time.”
(But so is pipeline approval, construction, and Canadian bureaucracy and various other bullshit to gain access to tidewater for Canada’s two landlocked provinces)
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What tension between the U.S. and Venezuela could mean for Canada
Amid growing tension between the U.S. and Venezuela over access to the South American country’s oil resources, Canada, and specifically its oil industry, could be impacted.www.ctvnews.ca
Venezuela? What’s up with that?
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Yeah, totally hear you. Shame somebody wasn’t advocating for a pipeline to the Pacific for landlocked Alberta & Saskatchewan.
Does that mean they'll buy from Saskatchewan instead where the Canadian heavy oil industry started?
Anywho…Trump (not a country) on Venezuela (a country), said, "And we just knocked out, I don't know if you read or you saw, they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago we knocked that out, so we hit them very hard," Trump said on WABC's "Cats and Cosby," though he didn't provide specifics…because Trump.
If Trump’s comments are accurate, then it would mark the first, you know, known attack on land in Venezuela since the Trump administration began its campaign against the country.
On Monday, as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump was pressed by a reporter for more details on the strike -- including whether the action was carried out by the U.S. military after Trump confirmed in October that he authorized the CIA to operate inside the South American nation.
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"Well, it doesn't matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs," Trump responded. "They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement. And that is no longer around."
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The Venezuelan government is yet to respond, and it is not clear whether the strike took place inside Venezuelan territory.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some tremendous news to share with you today. Truly huge. We just pulled off an operation like nobody has ever seen before. It was perfect. A perfect execution.
Down in Venezuela - which is a total mess, by the way, a socialist disaster, very sad what’s happening there - there was a facility. A massive, massive drug factory. Maybe the biggest in the world. They were making narcotics, the best and the purest ever, they were selling to everybody and we just can't have that.
And the Generals came to me - great generals, big strong guys, the best in the world - and they said, 'Sir, we have the location.' And I said, 'Take it out.' And we did. Bigly!
We hit it with the most beautiful military equipment. We rebuilt the military, remember? It was depleted, it was weak, but now it’s beautiful. We used the best missiles. Boom. Gone. Just like that. America is winning again. Big league. Venezuela's drug business? Dead. My business? Booming. And that's the way we like it. Beautiful."
If Trump’s comments are accurate, then it would mark the first, you know, known attack on land in Venezuela since the Trump administration began its campaign against the country.
On Monday, as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump was pressed by a reporter for more details on the strike -- including whether the action was carried out by the U.S. military after Trump confirmed in October that he authorized the CIA to operate inside the South American nation.
Trump says US hit Venezuela dock where drugs were allegedly loaded — Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. had "hit" a dock area in Venezuela where he alleged drugs were loaded onto boats.
Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack — ABC News
Trump said "it doesn't matter" whether it was carried out by the U.S. military.
Trump says US hit 'big facility' linked to alleged Venezuelan drug boats — BBC News
The president said it was a dock area "where they load the boats up with drugs".
Down in Venezuela - which is a total mess, by the way, a socialist disaster, very sad what’s happening there - there was a facility. A massive, massive drug factory. Maybe the biggest in the world. They were making narcotics, the best and the purest ever, they were selling to everybody and we just can't have that.
And the Generals came to me - great generals, big strong guys, the best in the world - and they said, 'Sir, we have the location.' And I said, 'Take it out.' And we did. Bigly!
We hit it with the most beautiful military equipment. We rebuilt the military, remember? It was depleted, it was weak, but now it’s beautiful. We used the best missiles. Boom. Gone. Just like that. America is winning again. Big league. Venezuela's drug business? Dead. My business? Booming. And that's the way we like it. Beautiful."
A facility that ships come from? Before or after the brothel?Anywho…Trump (not a country) on Venezuela (a country), said, "And we just knocked out, I don't know if you read or you saw, they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago we knocked that out, so we hit them very hard," Trump said on WABC's "Cats and Cosby," though he didn't provide specifics…because Trump.
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If Trump’s comments are accurate, then it would mark the first, you know, known attack on land in Venezuela since the Trump administration began its campaign against the country.
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On Monday, as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump was pressed by a reporter for more details on the strike -- including whether the action was carried out by the U.S. military after Trump confirmed in October that he authorized the CIA to operate inside the South American nation.
"Well, it doesn't matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs," Trump responded. "They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement. And that is no longer around."Trump says US hit Venezuela dock where drugs were allegedly loaded — Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. had "hit" a dock area in Venezuela where he alleged drugs were loaded onto boats.
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The Venezuelan government is yet to respond, and it is not clear whether the strike took place inside Venezuelan territory.Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack — ABC News
Trump said "it doesn't matter" whether it was carried out by the U.S. military.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some tremendous news to share with you today. Truly huge. We just pulled off an operation like nobody has ever seen before. It was perfect. A perfect execution.Trump says US hit 'big facility' linked to alleged Venezuelan drug boats — BBC News
The president said it was a dock area "where they load the boats up with drugs".
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Down in Venezuela - which is a total mess, by the way, a socialist disaster, very sad what’s happening there - there was a facility. A massive, massive drug factory. Maybe the biggest in the world. They were making narcotics, the best and the purest ever, they were selling to everybody and we just can't have that.
And the Generals came to me - great generals, big strong guys, the best in the world - and they said, 'Sir, we have the location.' And I said, 'Take it out.' And we did. Bigly!
We hit it with the most beautiful military equipment. We rebuilt the military, remember? It was depleted, it was weak, but now it’s beautiful. We used the best missiles. Boom. Gone. Just like that. America is winning again. Big league. Venezuela's drug business? Dead. My business? Booming. And that's the way we like it. Beautiful."
Hmm. . . shipyard? Port? Maritime maternity hospital?
The man's eloquence is. . . stunning.
The man's eloquence is. . . stunning.
But if it was, it would have either the number three or number fourth spot for proven oil reserves on the planet.
Anywho…The CIA carried out a drone strike bombing on Venezuelan soil last week, making it the first U.S. attack inside the country that we know of. While Donald Trump vastly expanded the CIA’s ability to act independently, they still do not have the authority to carry out land strikes in Venezuela—although that means nothing when they’ve already extrajudicially murdered dozens of fishermen in Venezuelan waters and quite literally stolen an oil tanker or two.
While Trump alluded to hitting a “big facility where ships come from” last week, he refused to confirm or deny whether that attack was the one we now know was carried out by the CIA.
The Trump administration has gone back and forth in its justifications for their acts of war. They’ve claimed that the Venezuelan government is a malicious narcostate, that they want to make Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “cry uncle,” and that Venezuela was shipping their oil to “foreign terrorist organizations.”
We Have New Details of Trump’s Venezuela Attack—and They’re a Doozy — The New Republic
This strike marks a major escalation in Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela.
The movements come as China said it opposed U.S. oil seizures and naval pressure on Venezuela. President Donald Trump is tightening maritime enforcement to choke off oil revenues to Caracas, which has in turn said the blockade won’t deter its oil shipments, and is reportedly deploying vessels to escort commercial vessels carrying petroleum products.
The report published Tuesday said Thousand Sunny was in the southern Atlantic on Monday, having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope without cargo, and has not diverted or slowed since Trump announced an oil blockade on Venezuela in mid-December. The Chinese-flagged tanker of unknown origin is not sanctioned by the U.S. and has been transporting Venezuelan Merey crude to China for a half-decade.
Meanwhile, the second unsanctioned Chinese-flagged VLCC, Xing Ye, is currently slow-steaming off French Guiana as it waits to load crude at Venezuela’s Jose Terminal. Like the Thousand Sunny, its ownership remains undisclosed, and its post-Venezuela destination is unclear. The tanker last loaded crude in Venezuela in August.
Stepping up its American blockade on Venezuelan oil, the U.S. seized the Panama‑flagged Centuries and the VLCC Skipper while pursuing the Bella 1, which officials say is a sanctioned Venezuelan vessel flying a false flag under a judicial seizure order.
Chinese oil tankers challenge US blockade off Venezuela
The tankers approach despite the U.S. tightening maritime enforcement to choke off oil revenues to Caracas.
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Eyewitnesses Detail Mysterious Explosion in Northwest Venezuela — TODAY
Two eyewitnesses in Northwestern Venezuela in an area known for drug trafficking tell NBC News that they saw an explosion on Dec. 18 that destroyed a hut that was possibly used for storage. It is unclear if it's the same strike that President Donald Trump mentioned which he called a major...
China to restrict silver exports, echoing rare earths playbook — CNBC
The U.S. added silver to its nationally designated list of critical minerals in November.
If it comes down to it.
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Trumps HUGE ego will be his downfall, of that I have no doubt.