Trans Mountain ‘pipeline is going to get built’: Trudeau dismisses B.C.’s bitumen ban

JLM

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This is THE WORST possible outcome for waldo, flossy and cliffy.

... I can hear their wee hearts breaking as we speak






I'm sure they'll find something else to bitch about by the end of the day!
 

Decapoda

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IT'S OFFICIAL

We bought the pipeline. It's a Crown.

$4.5B...a bargain.

The federal government just spent 4.5 billion taxpayer dollars to gain control over the flow of oil in this country. That is on top of the 8 billion dollars that it's going to cost to twin the pipe. A government who has already come out against fossil fuels. I'm having a hard time seeing how this is a bargain.
 
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Mowich

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John Horgan is going to be one unhappy f**king camper! :lol:


He deserves to be, JLM considering that the majority of Canadians who support twinning the line will now hold him and his idiot pal Weaver personally responsible for taxpayers being on the hook for the line. I am not happy about the Feds having to do this as their lack of initial response to protests and BC's intransigence was pathetic, irresponsible and short-sighted. However, twinning the line is in the National interest and it must be completed. If this is the only way to get it done, then so be it.
 
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JLM

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He deserves to be, JLM considering that the majority of Canadians who support twinning the line will now hold him and his idiot pal Weaver personally responsible for taxpayers now being on the hook for the line. I am not happy about the Feds having to do this as their lack of initial response to protests and BC's intransigence was pathetic, irresponsible and short-sighted. However, twinning the line is in the National interest and it must be completed. If this is the only way to get it done, then so be it.

No worries, in six months or a year those guys will be just a 'flash in the pan'. :lol:
 

petros

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Yes, I seem to recall a year or 2 ago that Cliffy announced that blood was about to be spilled.


.. Guess they got a little side tracked; maybe did a bunch of netflix marathons and forgot about the uprising

He brought up blood shed again yesterday.

CSIS is probably already watching him and his savage buddies.

The federal government just spent 4.5 billion taxpayer dollars to gain control over the flow of oil in this country. That is on top of the 8 billion dollars that it's going to cost to twin the pipe. A government who has already come out against fossil fuels. I'm having a hard time seeing how this is a bargain.

They bought the existing line too which is running at capacity and making decent revenue.
 

petros

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I think that looks more like Vancouver sewer line ;)

From Trip Advisor

“Walk along/atop a sewer pipe!”
Aug. 6, 2013

babachico (86 reviews)
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This is an interesting and somewaht unique place. The long walkway out into the Strait of Georgia is a sewer pipe! Go there at high tide or it could be smelly, not from the sewage, but from the smell of the stinky "beach". It is a dog's heaven, watch your step accordingly.

Depending on the wind direction, park users may get a bad dose of aviation fuel from airplane take-off at YVR.

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUser..._Regional_Park-Richmond_British_Columbia.html

HOO!



Iona Beach Regional Park and Sewage Treatment Facility.

Fun for the whole family.

Looking into the Kinder Morgan pipeline...



Can I have your share? Just do the ol' transfer to my birth certificate number.
 

Retired_Can_Soldier

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A truck hauling product can dump 50,000 liters of product in a catastrophic rollover. That's one truck of 10,000's that move along the highways every day. Then there's rail traffic.
 

Decapoda

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They bought the existing line too which is running at capacity and making decent revenue.

Good...they're going to need all the revenue they can get to cover the unavoidable "indemnity" that will need to be included in any deal with a potential buyer... to "indemnify a potential buyer for additional costs caused by provincial or municipal attempts to delay or obstruct the expansion, and to underwrite costs if the proponent abandons the project because of an adverse judicial decision, or because it can't be completed by a predetermined date despite "commercially reasonable efforts." This was an integral part of today's announcement.

Sounds like a Trudeau deal alright.
 

Decapoda

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Then you keep it as a Crown and wield eminent domain.

The risk doesn't change, only the entity who owns the risk.

You really feel comfortable with Trudeau and Morneau managing the tap? This whole mess is the result of their inability to manage stakeholders in the first place. This deal doesn't change the equation.
 

Colpy

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A perfect example of the white nationalist climate change denier level of maturity.


It isn't up to the Prime Minister to disallow laws.

That would be up to the Supreme Court and have no worries, they will disallow any law that Alberta cobbles together that is contrary to the Constitution and/or common law and tradition.

IF only the world worked the way that white nationalist climate change deniers saw it.

As far as the Port of Vancouver goes - this port and in fact the Burranrd inlet in general is not suitable for oil tanker traffic.

Cannot handle the modern size tankers at all.

So Alberta is stuck with trying to pretend that they are sending oil to China in 500K tankers to compete with lower cost producers who are shipping in there in modern 2M carriers.

The whole fiction is barely holding together.


Could you please stop talking about things you know nothing about. In other words, STFU, because as far as I can tell you know nothing about everything.


Disallowance and Reservation


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The Powers of Disallowance and Reservation in Canadian federalism

Sections 55, 56, and 57 of the Constitutional Act, 1867, provide for mechanisms and ways by which the Governor-General of Canada may, in the name of the Queen, refuse to assent or reserve bills passed by the Parliament of Canada. Section 90 extends these powers, in so far as the provinces are concerned, to the Lieutenant-Governor and the Federal Government. Since the Statute of Westminster, in 1931, the British government does not disallow federal bills anymore but the provisions permitting the disallowance of provincial acts by the federal government are still in effect, although they have fallen into disuse.



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Time to resurrect them.