Justin Trudeau’s Family Fortune Was Made
With Oil Money in Eastern Canada
In this Climate Crisis Election,
Alberta’s total emissions,
And by that measure the province is doing terribly.
Its oil sands alone did more damage to the climate last year than the entire economy of B.C.,
And Alberta’s per capita carbon emissions of 62.4 tonnes dwarf those of
The U.S. (15.53 tonnes) or even Saudi Arabia (16.85 tonnes).
This is why
Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 countries in the
2018 Climate Change Performance Index
Weighed down in large part by a certain oily elephant north of Edmonton.
Bank of Canada listed climate change as a threat to the Canadian economy
In this Climate Crisis Election,
Alberta’s total emissions,
And by that measure the province is doing terribly.
Its oil sands alone did more damage to the climate last year than the entire economy of B.C.,
And Alberta’s per capita carbon emissions of 62.4 tonnes dwarf those of
The U.S. (15.53 tonnes) or even Saudi Arabia (16.85 tonnes).
This is why
Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 countries in the
2018 Climate Change Performance Index
Weighed down in large part by a certain oily elephant north of Edmonton.
Bank of Canada listed climate change as a threat to the Canadian economy
Referring to the fact we’re warming at two times the rate
of the rest of the world.
“That’s catastrophic levels of change in a short period of time.”
Here’s where Earth stores its carbon
Canada should be one of the Richest Nations in the World
In addition to oil.
Canada has many other valuable natural resources
Here are the world rankings of Canada's natural resources:
Potash, #1
Uranium, #2
Oil, deposit #3 (production #6)
Nickel, #4
Diamond, #5
Salt, #5
Zinc, #6
Gold, #9
Copper, #9
The Canadian budget makes it abundantly clear where its revenues come from
It's not from Canada's natural resources
“Canada’s non-renewable energy resources
Are clearly being sold off for ever-decreasing benefit,”
Canada has one of the World’s lowest oil royalty rate structures .”
The royalties could amount to merely 1 per Cent
Plus Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad
The vast majority comes from you and your personal income taxes.
It's not from Canada's natural resources
“Canada’s non-renewable energy resources
Are clearly being sold off for ever-decreasing benefit,”
Canada has one of the World’s lowest oil royalty rate structures .”
The royalties could amount to merely 1 per Cent
Plus Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad
The vast majority comes from you and your personal income taxes.
Because Alberta is
‘Essentially giving oil away for free’
Alberta, produces 2.5 million barrels of oil per day
‘Essentially giving oil away for free’
Alberta, produces 2.5 million barrels of oil per day
Only 6 percent of the provincial total now.
Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent of its workforce.
It costs Canada 6,517,860 Plus barrels of oil every year
Just to keep one full time worker [working]
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Over the next 20 years, the oil sands industry is expected to pay $1.7 trillion in
Provincial and federal taxes – including royalties.
Just add up 912.500.000 barrels of oil per year
Lets go low $10.00 per barrel for 20 years
This is why our Resource-Rich Canadian Government is Always Poor
And they are
"incredibly profitable corporations,"
Oil company payments to governments in Canada and abroad
Rural Alberta is coping with $81-million shortfall in
oil and gas taxes
Alberta taxpayers footing bill for delinquent oil and gas companies,
Alberta’s ‘reclaimed’ wells aren’t actually reclaimed:
Oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site clean up
71% of the benefits and the subsidies goes to
Foreign Entities and Big Businesses
Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent of its workforce.
It costs Canada 6,517,860 Plus barrels of oil every year
Just to keep one full time worker [working]
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Over the next 20 years, the oil sands industry is expected to pay $1.7 trillion in
Provincial and federal taxes – including royalties.
Just add up 912.500.000 barrels of oil per year
Lets go low $10.00 per barrel for 20 years
This is why our Resource-Rich Canadian Government is Always Poor
And they are
"incredibly profitable corporations,"
Oil company payments to governments in Canada and abroad
Rural Alberta is coping with $81-million shortfall in
oil and gas taxes
Alberta taxpayers footing bill for delinquent oil and gas companies,
Oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site clean up
With the click of a button,
71% of the benefits and the subsidies goes to
Foreign Entities and Big Businesses
Our Government needs Jobs to keep the economy going
You get a job to pay taxes to pay for roads, schools and hospitals
Add the Cost of Government Debt in Canada,
You get a job to pay taxes to pay for roads, schools and hospitals
Add the Cost of Government Debt in Canada,
Our Resource-Rich Canadian Government Is
Just teetering on the boundary
Canada's national debt today is hitting 90% of GDP
The Government of Canada borrows much of the monies to
Cover its shortfalls
From the private sector
To understand how ridiculous this present situation is,
Consider the Auditor General of Canada report
Which States
That this is insane, This has to end
This is making Canada the laughing stock of the world
CANADA'S BIGGEST SECRET
Set aside the political argument for buying the
Kinder Morgan pipeline and you’re left with a deal that makes no business sense.
(The pipeline is 67 years old.)
Without so much as a basic cost-benefit analysis,
Export Development Canada’s administration of a nearly
$5 billion loan to support the government’s controversial purchase and operation of the
Trans Mountain pipeline a 67-year-old infrastructure
Kinder Morgan estimates the useful life of its pipelines at
30 to 64 years
$1 billion,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s repeated claims
(The pipeline is 67 years old.)
Without so much as a basic cost-benefit analysis,
Export Development Canada’s administration of a nearly
$5 billion loan to support the government’s controversial purchase and operation of the
Trans Mountain pipeline a 67-year-old infrastructure
Kinder Morgan estimates the useful life of its pipelines at
30 to 64 years
According to Kinder Morgan’s financial statements.
Kinder Morgan pipeline is not worth much more than $1 billion,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s repeated claims
that the pipeline was essential for Canada’s future.
Declaring the Trans Mountain pipeline was a matter of national interest
Why is the Trans Mountain pipeline so valuable
Kinder Morgan
Backdoor pipeline to Washington State
The Trans Mountain pipeline has a southern leg
called Puget Sound Pipeline
including the Ferndale Refinery (owned by Phillips 66),
the Cherry Point Refinery (owned by BP),
the Andeavor Anacortes Refinery (now owned by Marathon Petroleum), and
the Shell Anacortes Refinery (owned by Shell Oil).
The Puget Sound Pipeline currently has a capacity of 170,000 barrels per day (bpd),
Sven Biggs of Stand. Earth's Bellingham, Washington office.
Taking Alberta oil to the three existing refineries in Cherry Point and Anacortes, Wash.
It will cost Canadians $10 to $15 billion to get the
Declaring the Trans Mountain pipeline was a matter of national interest
Why is the Trans Mountain pipeline so valuable
Kinder Morgan
Backdoor pipeline to Washington State
The Trans Mountain pipeline has a southern leg
called Puget Sound Pipeline
Which splits off at Kinder Morgan’s Sumas Terminal in
Abbotsford, B.C. and delivers tar sands to several refineries in Washington State,
the Cherry Point Refinery (owned by BP),
the Andeavor Anacortes Refinery (now owned by Marathon Petroleum), and
the Shell Anacortes Refinery (owned by Shell Oil).
The Puget Sound Pipeline currently has a capacity of 170,000 barrels per day (bpd),
but in the documents filed for its IPO in May 2017,
Kinder Morgan indicated that they want to significantly increase that amount,
According to
Taking Alberta oil to the three existing refineries in Cherry Point and Anacortes, Wash.
Canadian oil would still be held ransom to a single, monopsony buyer in the U.S. at a discounted price;
Oil to the Three U.S. refineries with
No value added in Canada.
The Trans Mountain pipe line has nothing to do with
Asian markets
It has everything to do with enriching U.S.-based refineries.
96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.
It was the loss of the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast
A 800,000 barrels a day pipe line
This is the reason why
This is the reason why
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Spend C$4.5bn (US$3.45bn) Plus
To purchase
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
Asia via the existing 300,000 barrel per day pipeline
When no other private investors would stepped up to take on the risk.
This is why
96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.
In 2018, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S., accounting for 48% of total U.S. crude oil imports and for 22% of U.S. refinery crude oil intake.
Canada exported 3.5 million barrels per day to the U.S. in 2018, 96% of all Canadian crude oil exports.
After years of study and delay,
The decade-long saga over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch nearly 1,200 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Neb., has been full of legal twists.
The Keystone XL, was first proposed in 2008 under
96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.
In 2018, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S., accounting for 48% of total U.S. crude oil imports and for 22% of U.S. refinery crude oil intake.
Canada exported 3.5 million barrels per day to the U.S. in 2018, 96% of all Canadian crude oil exports.
After years of study and delay,
The decade-long saga over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch nearly 1,200 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Neb., has been full of legal twists.
The Keystone XL, was first proposed in 2008 under
President George W. Bush, would begin in Alberta and go to Nebraska, where it would join with an existing pipeline to shuttle more than 800,000 barrels a day of crude to terminals on the Gulf Coast.
Envisioned in 2008 as a way to connect Canada’s oil sands fields with Gulf Coast refineries, the project has died and been resurrected more than once.
In 2015, on the eve of the international climate talks in Paris,
The Obama administration announced it was halting construction on the remainder of the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing approval would compromise America’s effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Thank you Donald Trump
Envisioned in 2008 as a way to connect Canada’s oil sands fields with Gulf Coast refineries, the project has died and been resurrected more than once.
In 2015, on the eve of the international climate talks in Paris,
The Obama administration announced it was halting construction on the remainder of the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing approval would compromise America’s effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Thank you Donald Trump
Trans Mountain pipeline can now sit in the courts forever
Because
Donald Trump issues new permit for Keystone pipeline
Canada now has a 800,000 barrels a day pipe line of crude to terminals on the Gulf Coast
American energy and create jobs.
A presidential permit is needed because the project crosses a U.S. border.
BC.Gasoline and Diesel Prices Inquiry said
A presidential permit is needed because the project crosses a U.S. border.
BC.Gasoline and Diesel Prices Inquiry said
It's the lack of Competition and Gouging to
Contrary to claims made by
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta politicians,
The commission found the volume of refined products moving on
The Trans Mountain pipeline has no effect on prices only profits
Economist Robyn Allan told DeSmog Canada.
Because of "Air Barrels"
“Virtually no exports go to any markets other than the U.S.,”
Most of it at a very steep discount.
Economic cheerleading by federal and provincial politicians and the mainstream media on behalf of the oil industry is doing the public a great disservice.
When the party is over in the oil patch,
Canadian taxpayers may find themselves doing the dishes.
With a $260 billion bill to clean up Alberta’s oil patch
Our nation has an employed population of 18.4 million,
Meaning the average working person would have to pony up $14,000 to pay for
Alberta’s special relationship with the oil industry.
If this does not end Canada will be the next Venezuela
The world ranking of Canada's Oil
Deposit #3 (production #6)
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Still Canadians are paying some of highest gas prices in the world
Calgary Oil and Gas Execs want to keep it that way
They're Backing Scheer
Canada can have 100 pipelines
The Five Big Canadian Companies
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Still Canadians are paying some of highest gas prices in the world
Calgary Oil and Gas Execs want to keep it that way
They're Backing Scheer
Canada can have 100 pipelines
It would have no effect on prices only profits
This is why
Alberta
This is why
Alberta
The Five Big Canadian Companies
Together they now control almost
80 per cent of bitumen production
British Columbia
Market in Southern B.C.
Therefore, the wholesale gasoline and diesel market is an oligopoly.”
These companies control all 15 primary storage terminals in the province “and, along with
Federated Co-op Limited, control all the Bulk Terminals.
(Bulk terminals handle smaller volumes of fuel supplied by truck.)
The companies’ dominance makes it effectively impossible for competitors to enter the market, the report found.
“This oligopolistic wholesale market has the characteristics of a natural monopoly,” it said.
Contrary to claims made by Alberta politicians, the commission found the volume of refined products moving on
The Trans Mountain pipeline had no effect on prices just profits
And it noted the higher relative prices continued even as demand declined after peaking in 2016.
The demand decline is expected to continue.
The B.C. Utilities Commission’s recent report on gas prices confirms consumers are paying
$500 million a year too much for gasoline, Plus
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Today it will cost you to clean up
Alberta's oil patch? $260 billion
$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.
In 100 years only $1.2 billion has been invested in Clean up
The Cleanup bill is greater than the
Value of the entire oil and gas industry
Canada does not have the money to clean up the oil fields so
Canada is sweeping the problem under Water
Because there is shockingly poor regulatory oversight and lack of ambition on
Tailings management progress in Alberta,
Tailings Ponds are Worse Than Ever
National Geographic said
This is the world's most destructive oil operation
This is due to an
Companies have no deadlines to clean up abandoned wells.
Oil sands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds.
To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them
“It’s biologically and chemically an impossible fantasy,” said
David Schindler, a former University of Alberta professor
and renowned freshwater scientist and officer of the
Order of Canada. Said
Water capping will return land to a natural state is a “impossible fantasy.”
Two Alberta courts previously ruled that private creditors of bankrupt Redwater Energy Corp.
Were first in line for liquidated assets,
Ahead of its obligation to pay for environmental cleanup.
This is the problem of taxpayers and Landowners.
And if oil and gas companies aren’t setting aside the money to clean up
Their own mess, just who is going to pay for it?
You guessed it: The rest of us
Why
More than two-thirds or 71% of the ownership of oil sands production in
Canada is now owned by foreign entities
Foreign Investors they do not live here so
They do not care about Canada's environment
They only care about their bottom line
The Inquiry said
"By intervening and regulating,”
“Without that change,"
Today it will cost you to clean up
Alberta's oil patch? $260 billion
$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.
In 100 years only $1.2 billion has been invested in Clean up
The Cleanup bill is greater than the
Value of the entire oil and gas industry
“Canada wants to be a climate champion and"
Canada is sweeping the problem under Water
Because there is shockingly poor regulatory oversight and lack of ambition on
Tailings management progress in Alberta,
Tailings Ponds are Worse Than Ever
National Geographic said
This is the world's most destructive oil operation
And It's growing
This is due to an
Companies have no deadlines to clean up abandoned wells.
Oil sands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds.
To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them
“It’s biologically and chemically an impossible fantasy,” said
David Schindler, a former University of Alberta professor
and renowned freshwater scientist and officer of the
Order of Canada. Said
Water capping will return land to a natural state is a “impossible fantasy.”
Two Alberta courts previously ruled that private creditors of bankrupt Redwater Energy Corp.
Were first in line for liquidated assets,
Ahead of its obligation to pay for environmental cleanup.
This is the problem of taxpayers and Landowners.
And if oil and gas companies aren’t setting aside the money to clean up
Their own mess, just who is going to pay for it?
You guessed it: The rest of us
Why
More than two-thirds or 71% of the ownership of oil sands production in
Canada is now owned by foreign entities
Foreign Investors they do not live here so
They do not care about Canada's environment
They only care about their bottom line
The Inquiry said
The only way to stop price gouging is
"By intervening and regulating,”
“Without that change,"
Consumers will continue to be exploited in this market.”
Without that change Canada will be the next Venezuela
Alberta, produces 2.5 million barrels of oil per day
Without that change Canada will be the next Venezuela
Alberta, produces 2.5 million barrels of oil per day
‘ Alberta is essentially giving oil away for free’
Canada Buys back the oil at Full Market Price
54 per cent – of all Canadian oil imports come from the USA
More than two-thirds or 71% of the ownership of
Oil sands production in
Canada is now owned by foreign entities
Because most of the benefits go to the big businesses instead of the government.
The Government of Canada
The Cost of Government Debt in Canada,
To understand how ridiculous this present situation is,
Consider the Auditor General of Canada report
which states
That this is insane, This has to end
Can you really blame Albertans for being pissed?
The $30 billion exodus:
Foreign oil firms are bailing on Canada
Rachel Notley is telling the truth ,
Alberta’s oil and gas companies have figured out how to pull off
Rachel Notley said because of "Air Barrels"
Alberta is losing billions every year
To Fight “Air Barrels”
As Prices Continue To Plunge
The government estimates Alberta is losing
$80 million a day due to this discount,
Industry manipulates the current system.
Alberta will never be able to stop “Air Barrels”
Instead of fixing the problems
Canada allows big players to continue to scam the system,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives the oil sector $1.6B boost
Oil went from portfolio stalwart to portfolio destroyer
The world ranking of Canada's Oil
Canadian oil sands bitumen have fallen so far that many producers
Rachel Notley said
Because Alberta oil is sold for pennies on the dollar we are
‘Essentially giving our oil away for free’
Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad
WHERE DOES YOUR GAS COME FROM
Canada imports 759,000 barrels of oil per day at full market price
Rachel Notley said this is killing Canada
Most of the benefits go to Foreign Entities
And five big Canadian companies
A common misunderstanding about
Canada’s oil and gas industry
Is that all the Companies that belong to it
Face the same pressures to their business models from volatile oil prices and climate regulations.
The reality is much more nuanced.
When Hussey explored how the industry was affected by the
2014 oil price downturn for the Corporate Mapping Project,
He was surprised to learn that
The Five Big Canadian Companies
Suncor, CNRL, Cenovus, Husky and Imperial
Together they now control almost
80 per cent of bitumen production
By studying publicly available records,
He and his research team discovered that
“The Big Five”
Were performing relatively well
"incredibly profitable corporations,"
Banking and paying out to shareholders
$13.5 billion last year.
Even as tens of thousands of Albertans lost their jobs and smaller companies filed for bankruptcy
Rural Alberta is coping with $81-million shortfall in oil and gas taxes
Suncor for instance had a net profit rate above
Plus more than two-thirds or 71% of the ownership of oil sands production in
Canada is now owned by foreign entities
He and his research team discovered that
“The Big Five”
Were performing relatively well
"incredibly profitable corporations,"
Banking and paying out to shareholders
$13.5 billion last year.
Even as tens of thousands of Albertans lost their jobs and smaller companies filed for bankruptcy
Rural Alberta is coping with $81-million shortfall in oil and gas taxes
Suncor for instance had a net profit rate above
13.5 per cent in 2017
The Truth is
The Truth is
Alberta,
The royalties for oil sand production
Goes down every year
“Canada’s non-renewable energy resources
It's because most of the benefits go to the big businesses instead of the government.
Canada is now owned by foreign entities
Foreign Investors they do not live here so
They do not care about Canada's environment
Paris Agreement obligations for the year 2050.
Today the Alberta Tar Sands have been dubbed the largest
And most destructive
Industrial project in human history
In 100 years only $1.2 billion has been invested in Clean up
Today it will cost you to clean up
Alberta's oil patch? $260 billion
$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.
Today the Alberta Tar Sands have been dubbed the largest
And most destructive
Industrial project in human history
In 100 years only $1.2 billion has been invested in Clean up
Today it will cost you to clean up
Alberta's oil patch? $260 billion
$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.
Even as Canada promotes action on climate change on the world stage,
Canada does not have the money to clean up the oil fields
The Cleanup bill is greater than the
Value of the entire oil and gas industry and
Canada is sweeping the problem under Water
Alberta taxpayers footing bill for delinquent oil and gas companies,
Alberta’s ‘reclaimed’ wells aren’t actually reclaimed:
The oil sands industry's heavy environmental toll has prompted other investors to walk away.
Why is our export credit agency bankrolling its rapid expansion
Fuelling the oil sands
How Big Are Canada’s Oil Sands?
We had 100 years of Alberta oil
Today our Current Outstanding Public Debt of Canada is approximate:
$629,572,079,450.28 CDN.
The Cost of Government Debt in Canada, 2017
Believe it or not
Alberta
Will be $71 billion of debt by the time the
NDP face voters in 2019
Alberta is on pace to be $96 billion in debt by 2024
Manitoba Hydro's burgeoning debt surpasses $19 billion
This is a dramatics change in fortunes for a province
That celebrated being debt free 20 years earlier
Canada is now Number ONE in the world for Subsidies
Justin Trudeau’s Killed Energy East Pipeline
Justin Trudeau’s Family Fortune Was Made With Oil Money in Eastern Canada
Twice now we have voted in a Trudeau
Every time we vote in a Trudeau everyone in Canada Cries
Rachel Notley is telling the truth this is killing Canada
Trudeau is a laughingstock amongst world leaders.
He arrives in foreign nations preaching climate change,
Gender equality, progressive trade, diversity and inclusion.
Some governments are politer than others in telling him to hit the road and mind his own business.
He is not an emissary for the United Nations and does not speak for most Canadians.
The BC Premier is behaving like a pampered and spoiled brat who does not want anyone else to touch his toys.
There is sound reason why interprovincial works projects are under federal jurisdiction – to prevent the very sort of localized spanner-in-the-works behaviour by one province over the interests of others.
The BC exclusivity is the exact opposite of the inclusiveness Trudeau preaches.
The contradiction is palpable and emphasised by federal government inaction.
Divisive Politics…
BACK AND FORTH
Sort of puts things in perspective ……
If you ever wondered why the East gets to import oil by tanker but BC is against exporting it in tankers, read this .
With all the fuss over the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain pipeline project, one would think that British Columbia was under siege from petroleum interests.
That is an epic fairy tale.
Our federal government should have the same approach to petroleum pipelines no matter where they are proposed or built.
Similarly, movement of oil by ship should be the same no matter what part of Canada movement is in.
The facts tell an entirely different story:
Few people are aware that the East Coast of Canada has about 4,000 inbound trips by oil tankers each year.
Tankers account for about one fifth of the 20,000 inbound vessel trips on the East Coast.
Over 82 million tonnes of various petroleum and fuel products are moved in and out of 23 Atlantic Canada ports.
Almost all the movement of crude oil and petroleum products in Atlantic Canada is through the following ports:
Come by Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Saint John, New Brunswick
In Quebec, 25 million tonnes of crude oil and various petroleum products are moved in and out of 39 ports where cargo is loaded or unloaded.
In Quebec, 25 million tonnes of crude oil and various petroleum products are moved in and out of 39 ports where cargo is loaded or unloaded.
Eighty-nine per cent of the shipments of crude oil and various petroleum products are through Quebec City and Montreal.
Over 4.1 million tonnes of oil products are moved from 29 marine facilities in and out of ports in the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway.
Of this:
Over 1.8 million tonnes are shipped between Canada and the United States
Over 2.3 million tonnes are imported/exported in and out of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway system.
The Canada East pipeline would have disrupted the vested interests who import and refine foreign crude.
Over 1.8 million tonnes are shipped between Canada and the United States
Over 2.3 million tonnes are imported/exported in and out of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway system.
The Canada East pipeline would have disrupted the vested interests who import and refine foreign crude.
The screaming of Montreal politicians over building the Energy East pipeline has nothing to do with protecting the ecology or preventing oil spills unless we overlook the hazards of marine shipping and ignore
Montreal pouring a few million liters of raw sewage into the
St. Lawrence River.
It is all a smokescreen to allow investors in the current setup to continue to make money.
It is all a smokescreen to allow investors in the current setup to continue to make money.
The screaming out of British Columbia has nothing to do with ecology.
British Columbians are attempting to punish corporations and provinces that produce petroleum products for no better reason than they feel good about themselves as a result.
Perhaps we should ban fishing, declare a moratorium on west coast vacations and ban passenger liners from west coast ports in retaliation.
British Columbians and their Premier don’t care about $ billions in infrastructure investment and the jobs created, the income to provinces and the federal government or lost tax revenues that can help pay for the services we need.
Please let me know if you can fathom why tanker traffic is barred from the coastline of British Columbia but not Quebec.
The hypocrisy and double standards are blatantly obvious and unacceptable.
The notion that a pipeline company must account for downstream effects of product shipped is ludicrous.
If we ship crude to a terminal on the west coast and it is bought by China or another Pacific Rim nation we cannot be held accountable for carbon emissions of the importing nation.
If this has to be the case, why is BC coal not counted in the same fashion?
That is where ideologues like McKenna and Trudeau are dangerous.
They believe they can impose their utopian standards on other nation while their inane policies are strangling our economy at home.
Even worse, the environmental standards imposed on Canadian projects do not apply to foreign oil imports.
Our government is making it harder for us to become energy self-sufficient.
Why would we import oil rather than produce oil for our own use?
Something stinks and it is not Alberta bitumen.
We need grownups at the federal helm; people who put the well-being of the entire nation and our society first.
Our Prime Minister preaches diversity and inclusiveness while practicing exclusion and divisiveness.
The BC Premier is behaving like a pampered and spoiled brat who does not want anyone else to touch his toys.
There is sound reason why interprovincial works projects are under federal jurisdiction
To prevent the very sort of localized spanner-in-the-works behaviour by one province over the interests of others
The BC exclusivity is the exact opposite of the inclusiveness
Trudeau preaches.
The contradiction is palpable and emphasised by federal government inaction.
John Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Different strokes and
divisive politics --
Oil Sands Operations
Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth
Nine Uncomfortable Canadian Energy Facts
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divisive politics --
Oil Sands Operations
Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth
Nine Uncomfortable Canadian Energy Facts
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Approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vow to phase this out
It still hasn’t happened
According to a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) report,
Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion
Approximately $1,650 per Canadian.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vow to phase this out
It still hasn’t happened