Tories take backseat to NDP and Wildrose in Alberta
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It's no different than American, Venezuelan, Russian or Saudi oil sand which are in production.
Learn before you make more stupid claims.
Learn before you make more stupid claims.
That's not my point. Why would Suncor pull the plug on a $10 billion + project after already spending $3.5 billion ? The profitability wasn't there. That's not to say they couldn't make money at it, but they've obviously decided they can make more shipping out bitumen as they are now and leave further refining to someone else. Of course somebody somewhere is finishing off the refining process, the trick would be getting those people or someone like them to set up shop in Alberta and it's my guess they aren't doing that because they can do it cheaper somewhere else.
Notely won't do anything radical, because that would affect any chances of the Federal NDP getting all the Liberal votes.
So everything will be pretty much the same as it is now.. with few ripples.
So everything will be pretty much the same as it is now.. with few ripples.
I think so too. She did say that she was conscious of the difficulty current oil prices is causing, and that she would wait for the market to recover some before making any sweeping changes.
Thie Alberta election results were simply a matter of Ms. Notely playing a better politcal game than Mr. Prentiss. While he was suggesting that the rank and file taxpayers might have to take a hit to help the province through this rough patch, Ms. Notely's tax-the-rich plan obviously found greater support.
How can you insult Mother Gaia so harshly.
You sir, are an unfeeling savage without any gratitude for Ma Gaia whatsoever
That oil isn't going anywhere... Suncor will put it on hold until such time that they can maximize their position
That's like taking Candy from a baby, not much effort needed from Premier Notely.
Funny how so many people think we must do more refining, manufacturing, upgrading in Canada. Until there is a proposal to build said facility within 10000 miles of their house.
Bitumen needs refined product to thin it so it can be pumped. Upgrading is just desulphurising. That's it. When it gets to the end of the line it just takes a little heat and a column to sperate the products out.
No issue in Regina. Not even the plains Irish are complaining.
Try to start anything besides a welfare office in BC and all the idle rich protest as well as the don't want to work types.
Hey now, SK snuck a potash terminal into port moody. An oil spill is the end of the world until they find out what salinity from a leaky potash bulker will do.
K+S Group - Pacific Coast Terminals and K+S Potash Canada Sign Agreement on New Potash Handling and Storage Facility
K+S Group - Pacific Coast Terminals and K+S Potash Canada Sign Agreement on New Potash Handling and Storage Facility
Normally that would be my guess as well, but I watched them dismantle the site, much of it rather savagely. There was no intent of saving anything for later, it was a sharp 180 from their previous position on upgrading.
This one was a little different petros, it was an "upgrader" in the truest sense of the word, meant to convert heavy crude to light crude. The closing price gap between heavy crude and light, along with soaring construction costs led them to cancel the project. If it were just another preliminary upgrader meant to get bitumen pipeline ready I can't see them bulldozing the project with steadily increasing output planned for all their sites.
There is no converting. Its desulphurising and that's it. Trying to pipe bitumen with the sulpher and paraffin (pre-upgrading) ain't gonna happen with out refined product used as a solvent.
I don't care who's running the Government, Alberta is the best Province in Canada, and always will be. PERIOD!!
The NDP doesn't want to be a one term government and will not make to many drastic changes.. they are also aware that Alberta is Canada's economic engine.. we are not just a resourced based Province, we are also a main tourist destination.
The NDP doesn't want to be a one term government and will not make to many drastic changes.. they are also aware that Alberta is Canada's economic engine.. we are not just a resourced based Province, we are also a main tourist destination.
