The Official Contempt for Alberta Thread
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I noticed from the pictures of the spill area that the pipeline appears to be buried. Pipelines used for a similar purpose at the Syncrude site are periodically dismantled and rotated due to the abrasive nature of the sand in the emulsion being more concentrated at the bottom of the pipe, and therefore run above ground for easy access.
I think the pipe is heated to keep the viscosity of the emulsion down, hence the double wall construction.
I heard the same and my thoughts exactly. I think the hole may have had some 'help'.
More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
Good.
More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
EDMONTON -- Climate isn't all that's changing in Alberta.
The province's NDP government has arguably made bigger moves on global warming in six months than the previous Conservatives made in a generation. And the changes aren't going to stop.
The details of the government's new climate change policy -- carbon-price rebates and green infrastructure investments, for starters -- will be at least partly thrashed out in the coming months as the government readies its spring budget. But that, says Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, is just the beginning.
"We are entering a world that is going to be constrained with respect to (carbon)," the minister said recently in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"Alberta must be carbon-competitive with respect to our energy. It is also not something that this government created. It is a fact. Just as the science of climate change is a fact.
"We have a low price of oil, a scientific consensus on the way the global economy is going. Within that, one must make careful and deliberate decisions on how we move forward. The way to do that is not to engage in angry navel-gazing."
Phillips is clear that Premier Rachel Notley understands that governments must not only lead, they must get people to follow. That became especially clear after poor communication sparked noisy protests against the government's farm safety legislation.
Phillips uses the word "conversation" -- with Albertans, with communities, with industry -- again and again.
But make no mistake. She is working toward a different province than the one in which she grew up.
"Climate policy can be -- and is -- a job creator and community developer and a way that communities can really take ownership over how they develop."
The boom-and-bust Alberta of go-go oil and gas investment followed by shuddering halt has got to end, she said.
More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details | CTV News
Good.
More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
EDMONTON -- Climate isn't all that's changing in Alberta.
The province's NDP government has arguably made bigger moves on global warming in six months than the previous Conservatives made in a generation. And the changes aren't going to stop.
The details of the government's new climate change policy -- carbon-price rebates and green infrastructure investments, for starters -- will be at least partly thrashed out in the coming months as the government readies its spring budget. But that, says Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, is just the beginning.
"We are entering a world that is going to be constrained with respect to (carbon)," the minister said recently in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"Alberta must be carbon-competitive with respect to our energy. It is also not something that this government created. It is a fact. Just as the science of climate change is a fact.
"We have a low price of oil, a scientific consensus on the way the global economy is going. Within that, one must make careful and deliberate decisions on how we move forward. The way to do that is not to engage in angry navel-gazing."
Phillips is clear that Premier Rachel Notley understands that governments must not only lead, they must get people to follow. That became especially clear after poor communication sparked noisy protests against the government's farm safety legislation.
Phillips uses the word "conversation" -- with Albertans, with communities, with industry -- again and again.
But make no mistake. She is working toward a different province than the one in which she grew up.
"Climate policy can be -- and is -- a job creator and community developer and a way that communities can really take ownership over how they develop."
The boom-and-bust Alberta of go-go oil and gas investment followed by shuddering halt has got to end, she said.
More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details | CTV News
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
Yeah well we know which way Flossy and Co. want to take this country..
They don't want Canadians thinking for themselves... the Liberals want to control the population..
Hillary Clinton was part of the communist party as well.
Yeah well we know which way Flossy and Co. want to take this country..
They don't want Canadians thinking for themselves... the Liberals want to control the population..
Hillary Clinton was part of the communist party as well.
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
It's sad that a former commie has more sense than today's conservatives but that is the world we live in.
It's sad that a former commie has more sense than today's conservatives but that is the world we live in.
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
You really are a knuckle dragging slobbering idiot.
Neoliberalism, look it up idiot.
You really are a knuckle dragging slobbering idiot.
Neoliberalism, look it up idiot.
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
Then again who knows? Maybe Notley will be smarter than Ontario's Libtards and NOT give the industry carte blanch to write up its own regulations.
Gee, no sh*t Sherlock. Our planet's history is replete with periods of climate change. The idea that we can prevent it however, is laughable at best.
Yeah, they should have told the farmer's the truth. The NDP was simply kowtowing to the unions while making a cash grab by calling the kids of farmers "employees".
Oh looky, another fake consensus. Ya know, the last time scientists offered their "help" and opinions when it comes to the economy we ended up with the sub-prime mortgage scam. They actually had physicists doing computer models for the sub-prime mortgages.
Yeah, which is why several European countries have cut off subsidies to green energy projects. They cost more than they put into the economy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Obviously the Dipwads haven't looked at how Ontario's green energy policy has divided communities while at the same time grossly devaluing nearby properties.
Then again who knows? Maybe Notley will be smarter than Ontario's Libtards and NOT give the industry carte blanch to write up its own regulations.
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
The change should come in making preparations. How many people really believe man can hold back the tides and make the sun rise in the west?
Climate change, as a tool, is just a big expensive net to snag suckers and enrich a few crooks
The change should come in making preparations. How many people really believe man can hold back the tides and make the sun rise in the west?
Climate change, as a tool, is just a big expensive net to snag suckers and enrich a few crooks
Re: More changes coming to Alberta as NDP works out climate policy details
Progress is being made on climate change in Alberta ok, its also been high
on the agenda in BC and not from an NDP government either. I sometimes
wonder if we are watching a natural but accelerated climate change that
has gone on for more than a decade or if we are artificially speeding the
process. I am not opposed to even a carbon tax there will always be taxes
anyway. What drives me round the bend is what the governments do with
the money. Instead of using it for the reason they are taxing they put it in
general revenue and just keep raising the tax that I am opposed to.
The NDP is not the ones responsible for the energy crisis in Alberta the world
price for oil is responsible and the former governments of Cline and Getty are
more responsible than most. They spent the fund that former Premier Peter
Lougheed established decades ago. All the present government has done is
rail the tax percentage rate back to where Lougheed had it as I understand.
It is time companies paid their share of taxes in this country. It is said oh they
provide jobs. Wonderful but you don't hear average people saying we work for
those companies producing their profits everyday so we shouldn't have to pay
taxes either. It is time everyone grew up and put back into the economy some
measure or percentage or by percentage for the benefit they take out of it.
Progress is being made on climate change in Alberta ok, its also been high
on the agenda in BC and not from an NDP government either. I sometimes
wonder if we are watching a natural but accelerated climate change that
has gone on for more than a decade or if we are artificially speeding the
process. I am not opposed to even a carbon tax there will always be taxes
anyway. What drives me round the bend is what the governments do with
the money. Instead of using it for the reason they are taxing they put it in
general revenue and just keep raising the tax that I am opposed to.
The NDP is not the ones responsible for the energy crisis in Alberta the world
price for oil is responsible and the former governments of Cline and Getty are
more responsible than most. They spent the fund that former Premier Peter
Lougheed established decades ago. All the present government has done is
rail the tax percentage rate back to where Lougheed had it as I understand.
It is time companies paid their share of taxes in this country. It is said oh they
provide jobs. Wonderful but you don't hear average people saying we work for
those companies producing their profits everyday so we shouldn't have to pay
taxes either. It is time everyone grew up and put back into the economy some
measure or percentage or by percentage for the benefit they take out of it.