Trans Mountain ‘pipeline is going to get built’: Trudeau dismisses B.C.’s bitumen ban
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The heavy-hand of central authority has it's appeal when it gets you what you want.
If the government comes out West to dictate energy policy, but you don't like the policy, then the appeals to the authority to the glorious central state evaporate. Whole political movements spring up demanding reform and insisting the government listen to the West. They want small government and stronger provincial decision making.
Without a centralized authority, you have little more than multiple fiefdoms operating independently
The Feds are dictating energy policy... What we have here is the fiefdom of BC attempting to dictate policy to the ROC
Ridiculous. Do you know why Ottawa is the capital of Canada? Queen Victoria chose it. It is not an east vs. west thing, as you are trying to imply. It is a federal vs provincial government thing.
http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/ottawa-chosen-canadian-capital
WRT energy, the feds hold the cards. If you wish to whine about it, I suggest you complain about why the feds have total say. And, how it came to be that way, if you want to go retro.
She chose Pile'O'Bones as the capital of the NW Territories as well She must have like Vagina as well LOL
Sorry Alberta, BC Will Not Pay for Your Bungling
Pipeline is a desperate, dangerous and doomed bid to fix decades of resource mismanagement.
Last month Suncor announced it was eliminating 400 bitumen-mining jobs by purchasing self-driving ore trucks. This is only the latest indignity (or “efficiency” as industry calls it) for a sector that produces more carbon and less and less employment and public revenue.
Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley are staking their political careers on the Trans Mountain pipeline and massively increased bitumen production. Why?
Bitumen royalties now make up a puny 3.5 per cent of the total Alberta budget. Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent of its workforce. Over the last decade 5,100 fewer people were employed by Alberta’s oil and gas sector — a trend that oil companies have assured shareholders will continue. Meanwhile Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 counties in the 2018 Climate Change Performance Index — weighed down in large part by a certain oily elephant north of Edmonton.
If we are selling out core Canadian values like aspiring to be a global leader on climate policy, let’s at least negotiate a decent price. But as usual Canada seems to get very little for exploitation by others of our vast resource endowment.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/09/Sorry-Alberta-BC-Will-Not-Pay-For-Your-Bungling/
Pipeline is a desperate, dangerous and doomed bid to fix decades of resource mismanagement.
Last month Suncor announced it was eliminating 400 bitumen-mining jobs by purchasing self-driving ore trucks. This is only the latest indignity (or “efficiency” as industry calls it) for a sector that produces more carbon and less and less employment and public revenue.
Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley are staking their political careers on the Trans Mountain pipeline and massively increased bitumen production. Why?
Bitumen royalties now make up a puny 3.5 per cent of the total Alberta budget. Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent of its workforce. Over the last decade 5,100 fewer people were employed by Alberta’s oil and gas sector — a trend that oil companies have assured shareholders will continue. Meanwhile Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 counties in the 2018 Climate Change Performance Index — weighed down in large part by a certain oily elephant north of Edmonton.
If we are selling out core Canadian values like aspiring to be a global leader on climate policy, let’s at least negotiate a decent price. But as usual Canada seems to get very little for exploitation by others of our vast resource endowment.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/09/Sorry-Alberta-BC-Will-Not-Pay-For-Your-Bungling/
Only Fantasies, Desperation and Wishful Thinking Keep Pipeline Plans Alive
There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere.
Canadians are often told the Trans Mountain pipeline project is imperative to access Asian markets anxious to buy Alberta bitumen.
True? Like many things in life, the truth is found in hard facts, not overheated rhetoric or wishful thinking. Ten years ago the Trans Mountain pipeline was quietly expanded by 40,000 barrels per day, about 13 per cent. With a decade of shipping data available since that upgrade, has the Asian market since exploded for Alberta bitumen?
Crunching the cargo statistics from the Port of Vancouver a very different picture emerges. In 2016 — the last year that complete data is available — the U.S. accounted for 99.99 per cent of outbound crude oil shipments. Of the 1,185,289 tonnes of crude shipped in bulk tankers that year, 1,185,121 tonnes were delivered to the United States.
In fact, total crude tanker shipments from Vancouver peaked eight years ago in 2010 at 4.3 million tonnes and have since declined 72 per cent.
And what about those hungry Asian markets? Crude exports from Vancouver to China topped out in 2011 at only 28 per cent of total outbound shipments. By 2014, they dropped to six per cent, and in 2016 they were essentially zero. The next largest Asian importers of crude from Vancouver were Singapore, which peaked at four per cent of total shipments in 2009, and India reaching two per cent in 2013.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/23/Fantasies-Keep-Pipeline-Plans-Alive/
There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere.
Canadians are often told the Trans Mountain pipeline project is imperative to access Asian markets anxious to buy Alberta bitumen.
True? Like many things in life, the truth is found in hard facts, not overheated rhetoric or wishful thinking. Ten years ago the Trans Mountain pipeline was quietly expanded by 40,000 barrels per day, about 13 per cent. With a decade of shipping data available since that upgrade, has the Asian market since exploded for Alberta bitumen?
Crunching the cargo statistics from the Port of Vancouver a very different picture emerges. In 2016 — the last year that complete data is available — the U.S. accounted for 99.99 per cent of outbound crude oil shipments. Of the 1,185,289 tonnes of crude shipped in bulk tankers that year, 1,185,121 tonnes were delivered to the United States.
In fact, total crude tanker shipments from Vancouver peaked eight years ago in 2010 at 4.3 million tonnes and have since declined 72 per cent.
And what about those hungry Asian markets? Crude exports from Vancouver to China topped out in 2011 at only 28 per cent of total outbound shipments. By 2014, they dropped to six per cent, and in 2016 they were essentially zero. The next largest Asian importers of crude from Vancouver were Singapore, which peaked at four per cent of total shipments in 2009, and India reaching two per cent in 2013.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/23/Fantasies-Keep-Pipeline-Plans-Alive/
The pipeline expansion is over until they invent a way to clean it up - which is impossible and they know it and we know it.
Now what we need to concentrate on is shutting the existing pipeline down - which will happen as a matter of economics.
Now what we need to concentrate on is shutting the existing pipeline down - which will happen as a matter of economics.
Riiiiiggggghhhhht! The expoit speaketh - oil up 20 bucks USD since last summer.
https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts
This is why they invented "citations", so the reader can tell the difference between those that just pretends to look smawt, as opposed to the ones that is.
Elton is a British queen, rumor has it he's not all that fond of ******s...
but he does love the Yellowknife Road.
From Tyee Opinions. Great source of fact.
The Kinder Morgan project, in part because of its location, will likely send most of its crude to California, although some may also flow to Asia. For oil companies such as Cenovus, the destination doesn't matter. Oil is often sold at the dock, and the price there is the international price, no matter where the crude ends up. To "unlock the value" of Canada's crude oil, that product has to touch tidewater, says Paul Reimer, senior vice-president of marketing, transportation and power at Cenovus.
The stakes, then, are high for Kinder Morgan. In some ways, Canada's global industrial position depends on this pipeline.
"More market connections increase our global competitiveness and position us to better receive full market value for our growing production," says Patti Lewis, spokeswoman for Nexen Inc., which has been a supporter of the Kinder Morgan expansion. Ms. Lewis spoke before Nexen agreed to be bought out by China's state-controlled CNOOC Ltd. for $15.1-billion, a deal that underscores the growing connections between Canadian crude reserves and Chinese energy ambitions.
But Spirit Eagle doesn't ruffle yer fedders Cliffy?
Indigenous backers of Eagle Spirit pipeline launch GoFundMe campaign to sue Ottawa over oil tanker ban
BY CLAUDIA CATTANEO
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: JAN 24, 2018
Indigenous backers of Eagle Spirit pipeline launch GoFundMe campaign to sue Ottawa over oil tanker ban | Financial Post
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Shutting it down. How are a bunch of 14 year olds going to shut down a pipeline? :lol: Let me guess. You're going to hold your breath until they do what you tell them. :lol:
