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

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Alberta officials are signalling they have no idea how to clean up toxic oilsands tailings ponds
The toxic waste of the Canadian oilpatch has been quietly spreading in the boreal forest since bitumen mining began near Fort McMurray in Northern Alberta in the 1960s.
The mix of clay, water, toxic acids, metals and leftover bitumen has sprawled in artificial ponds to cover an area twice the size of the city of Vancouver.
More than one trillion litres of the goop, called tailings, fill these man-made waste lakes that can be seen from space. An equivalent amount of water would take five days to tumble over Niagara Falls.
The contaminated tailings ponds attract and kill migrating birds. They emit methane and other greenhouse gases.
Despite years of public promises from officials that the tailings ponds would shrink and go away, they are growing. And in the meantime, troubling gaps are opening in the oversight system meant to ensure the oilpatch cleans up its mess. Alberta has collected only $1 billion from companies to help remediate tailings— a problem that is now estimated to cost about 100 times that.
Decades and billions have been spent on research and still there is no sure solution to a problem that is getting attention beyond Alberta. In August, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation — a NAFTA organization composed of officials from the U.S., Mexico and Canada — announced it would investigate and produce a report on tailings ponds and the threat they pose to surrounding groundwater and rivers.


More: https://www.nationalobserver.com/20...ave-no-idea-how-clean-toxic-oilsands-tailings

We know that is an outright fabrication.
 

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The climate isn’t changing , it has always been static .


You know something? I think you're right, although I think the weather in some parts has been straying outside the climatic parameters! :)
 
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like climate change and evolution






Oh what a SILLY hemerHOID you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


A Yankee judge has just decided that a California Power Company.............................


with its badly maintained and poorly insulated wiring and equipment..............................


is INSTRUMENTAL in the majority of "wild fires" in California...............................


over the past FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Blaming climate change INSTEAD OF blaming the shorted out electrical equipment................................


THAT IS THE REAL CAUSE for MANY wild fires.........................


is just like blaming Climate Change for all the grass fires that occurred in Durham Region every spring..............................



until local railroad companies WERE FORCED to do better maintenance on their freight train wheels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is TRULY AMAZING how many fires can be started so quickly with just a few sparks in dry grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



But such is LIE-beral GREED that they will BLAME corporations for many things..........................


but they PREFER to BLAME climate change for starting fires since HOGS get so much gravy..................................


from the CORPORATE INVESTMENTS their pension managers make for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Corporations are EVIL in LIE-berals eyes - UNLESS there is a resulting loss of GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

spilledthebeer

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Oh hemerHOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The climate does not change with anything like the speed.....................................


of LIE-beral Fake News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 

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Oh what a SILLY hemerHOID you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


A Yankee judge has just decided that a California Power Company.............................


with its badly maintained and poorly insulated wiring and equipment..............................


is INSTRUMENTAL in the majority of "wild fires" in California...............................


over the past FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Blaming climate change INSTEAD OF blaming the shorted out electrical equipment................................


THAT IS THE REAL CAUSE for MANY wild fires.........................


is just like blaming Climate Change for all the grass fires that occurred in Durham Region every spring..............................



until local railroad companies WERE FORCED to do better maintenance on their freight train wheels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is TRULY AMAZING how many fires can be started so quickly with just a few sparks in dry grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



But such is LIE-beral GREED that they will BLAME corporations for many things..........................


but they PREFER to BLAME climate change for starting fires since HOGS get so much gravy..................................


from the CORPORATE INVESTMENTS their pension managers make for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Corporations are EVIL in LIE-berals eyes - UNLESS there is a resulting loss of GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched a CN freight train travelling down the Canyon with a hot box sparking , fire was catching and running up the mountain , it was very unnerving how fast it went .
 

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I watched a CN freight train travelling down the Canyon with a hot box sparking , fire was catching and running up the mountain , it was very unnerving how fast it went .
It was probably carrying explosive oil.
 

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The climate isn’t changing , it has always been static .




But hemerHOID HAS EVOLVED.............................


INTO A LOWER LIFE FORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But then marine biologists are talking about "The Rise of Slime" in our oceans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No reason not to assume the same effect is occurring in our politics as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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The Keystone Oil Spill No One's Talking About Will Be Nearly Impossible to Clean Up
The pipeline spilled half an Olympic-sized swimming pool's worth of particularly dirty oil into North Dakota's wetlands.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...g-about-will-be-nearly-impossible-to-clean-up

Every person in BC should read this article.




I have a BETTER IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Why dont we talk about how WE PAY civil service union HOGS..................................


to inspect things like pipelines and ENSURE proper maintenance is being done................


and WE ARE APPARENTLY PAYING HOGS TO DO NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Should we talk about the pipeline in Edmonton - with HOGS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSPECTING IT............ ............


and FORGOT IT EVEN EXISTED for FIFTY YEARS till it rusted out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But TEY STILL GOT PAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AND WE GOT THE CLEAN UP BILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



A pipeline leak is nothing more than the oil patch equivalent of LIE-berals IGNORING money laundering...........................


and ignoring gang bangers with guns..........................................


because it was costing too much to deal with and might lose LIE-berals some votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is nothing more than sloppy arrogant HOG INDIFFERENCE to doing a job effectively and efficiently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Pipeline inspection is costly and might lose votes for LIE-berals if they compromised corporate profits.........................................


SINCE IT IS UNION HOGS who own MOST CORPORATE STOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You CUT into HOG gravy at YOUR PERIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This is why railways have derailments - because they leave the maintenance till something FALLS APART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Railways have had speed limits FORCED ON THEM in urban areas because of their SLOPPY wheel and track maintenance!!!!!!!!!!


Bad railway maintenance triggers MULTIPLE DANGEROUS GRASS FIRES along the rail line as steel wheels throw sparks!!!!!!!!!!!!



An Oil spill is simply the equivalent of the CURRENT SCANDAL over TOXIC Lead in Cdn drinking water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE PAY HOGS A LOT OF MONEY to produce SAFE drinking water............................


and HOGS ARE FAILING TO DO THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


An Oil spill is the equivalent of California wild fires that are started by BADLY MAINTAINED power lines that spark fires in windy weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


California even went so far this autumn - to CUT POWER to portions of the state - millions of people DELIBERATELY BLACKED OUT!!!!


IN a FAILED EFFORT to prevent power line generated wild fires caused by SLOPPY HOG maintenance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


One California power company was driven into bankruptcy by the sheer number of lawsuits sparked by its power line fires!!!!!!!!!!



An oil spill is the equivalent of those dogs who were KILLED IN TORONTO when they came in contact with RUSTED OUT "hand



wells" used by HOGS to connect street lighting and such!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HemerHOID is also the HOG who routinely DEFENDS the people who CAUSED THE WALKERTON WATER DISASTER...................


which KILLED SEVEN PEOPLE AND CRIPPLED 100 MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yes - our hemerHOID CHOOSES to blame Mike Harris for the failures of a GREEDY CABAL OF LOCAL politicians................


who DEMANDED AND GOT control of their water system - while HARRIS WAS STILL A KID in school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And then the local politicians proceeded to dig a bunch of wells in ABSOLUTELY THE WORST PLACES..............................


meaning the wells were dug near SWAMPS that could easily contaminate the drinking water ...................................


and this was DONE DESPITE provincial advice regarding the dangers.....................................


and then the locals HIRED AN UNLICENSED DRUNK to maintain their water filtering system...................................


the guy was an ignorant MONKEY who spent most work days drunk - BUT HE WAS A UNION HOG IN GOOD STANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!


And being UNLICENSED - HE WORKED CHEAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What price seven dead and a hundred more on kidney dialysis thanks to HOG STUPIDITY??????????????????



And what of all these FOOD RECALLS - with the food having been produced in factories...................................


THAT SUPPOSED TO BE ROUTINELY INSPECTED BY HOGS..........................................


WHO APPARENTLY AINT DOING THEIR JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or we could look back a couple of decades to the scandal over ground beef in Ontari-owe.........................


in which sloppy fly by night producers did most of their work while HOG INSPECTORS were AWAY from the factory......................


but in order not to rock the boat - the HOG inspectors signed off on those batches of BAD BEEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or we could talk about the HUGE SCANDAL several decades back that centred on FILTHY Toronto restaurants that HOGS were too



"busy" - apparently meaning TOO LAZY to inspect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And after a bunch of people got sick- then HOGS had to put on A big blitz - WITH lots of expensive overtime ............................


to bring restaurants back into safe operation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hogs had to do a BIG BLITZ- to make up for past LACKADAISICAL PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The Pass/Fail cards now posted in Toronto restaurant windows are a RESULT of that blitz.............................


with the cards PROVING that the restaurant WAS INSPECTED and identifying the HOG RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So that people WILL KNOW WHO TO BLAME if they get served BAD FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or we could talk about the Toronto Sunrise Propane Explosion that was caused by TWO THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


FIrst - to save time - Sunrise employees habitually transferred propane - from truck to truck.......................................


IN SPITE of the static electricity problem that CAUSES EXPLOSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And we must also BLAME GOVT HOGS who THREE TIMES gave slaps on the wrist for those truck to truck transfers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOG safety inspectors ARE SUPPOSED TO HALT DANGEROUS COMPANY BEHAVIOUR............................


yet Sunrise was basically IGNORED until they BLEW UP THE ENTIRE DISTRICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No doubt hemerHOID WILL NOT want to talk about the dozens of houses destroyed in the explosion.......................


nor will he mention the several hundred thousand people EVACUATED after the explosion.........................


nor will he mention the temporary CLOSURE of MAJOR HIGHWAYS and roads in the area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HemerHOID will not wish to mention the millions of dollars spent by BOTH INSURANCE COMPANIES AND ............................


by the Ontari-owe govt - simply to CLEAN UP THE HOG SPONSORED MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Is it not remarkable HOW LITTLE BILE hemerHOID spews at OUR SLOPPY GREEDY UNION HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HemerHOID saves all his venom for oil companies that have the temerity to act like HIS BELOVED SLOPPY HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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This is especially mild when compared to the millions of gallons of raw sewage that BC dumps into the ocean each and every day




YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Is it not ODD that hemerHOID is so fixated on oil while the city of Victoria dumps millions of gallons of vaguely treated sewage into the ocean?????????????????????


And he CARES NOTHING for the fact that Iqualuit HAS NO SEWAGE TREATMENT and dumps its mess in the Beaufort Sea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And our white natty hating hemerHOID completely IGNORES the cruise ships that HOLD THEIR WASTE WATER.......................


till they get into CDN waters and then DUMP THEIR CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And hemerHOID wants to DESTROY the oil patch WHILE IGNORING the 65 thousand litres PER DAY...............................


of TOXIC SLUDGE that a pulp mill wants to dump into the Northumberland Strait on the east coast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HemerHOID is apparently a white man - according to his profile photo...............................


so one wonders why he does not end up slapping himself every morning when he rolls out of bed................................


and sees that WHITE NATTY FACE IN THE MIRROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Apparently hemerHOID ENJOYS his schizophrenia and twisted hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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So...


Why can't we pissed at BOTH happening? Does it have to be one or the other?


Tell that to the Fed gvt.


Considering that the oceans are Fed jurisdiction, you would think that they would 'protect' the waters and marine life in the same way that they put in a tanker ban off the NW coast of BC to protect the environment and aquatic life.


Come to think of it, you'd wonder why that same tanker ban isn't in place in the St Lawrence Seaway or the East coast.


Food for thought, huh?