Posted on 02/20/2020 6:58:52 AM PST by karpov
Canadians’ reputation for politeness is being tested by an ugly dispute over energy policy. It involves the Coastal GasLink pipeline, owned by TC Energy, which will be used to transport natural gas from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, near the Alberta border, to the coastal town of Kitimat.
Coastal GasLink was organized in 2012 by the province’s Liberal government, and it’s supported by the current New Democratic Party government. Most First Nations tribes along the pipeline path, including the elected band council of the Wet’suwet’en, support the project. But five hereditary Wet’suwet’en chiefs oppose it, and many left-wing activists predictably side with them. For the past few years the activists have organized blockades that aim to shut down construction. The British Columbia Supreme Court has issued two injunctions against the blockades.
In late January, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police entered the blocked area to clear it for good. The occupiers fought back by mobilizing larger disruptions across Canada. They’ve blocked provincial ministers from entering their legislative buildings. They’ve kept Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland from attending a meeting at City Hall in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They’ve blocked port and ferry entrances in Vancouver and Victoria. Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte blocked rail lines in Belleville, Ontario. The Canadian National Railway shut down all routes east of Toronto, causing 450 railroad layoffs.
In Ottawa, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has answered with weakness. Indigenous Minister Marc Miller met with the Mohawks Saturday but reported only “modest success.” He was unaccompanied by First Nations supporters of the project.
As for Mr. Trudeau, he’s refused to intervene, claiming he can’t tell the RCMP what to do. That’s not completely true.
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Democracy dies in the dark, cold, great white North.
This person whose government decided to remove the first prime minister’s likeness (Sir John A MacDonald) from the ten dollar bill because of MacDonald having now the same reputation as Robert E Lee among the politically correct in the United States. How appropriate.
Our communist Prime Minister, Justin Castro, supports the radicals.
I think Trudeau is sympathetic to the lefties, and has little use for the western provinces, so is disinclined to restore order.
The politeness act doesn’t fool anyone with any brains.
Westerners are slowly organizing to leave. I personally support joining the States, because I understand the Federal government cannot lift a state’s wealth to give it to another state, though California would like that.
This has been a major problem for all Canadian rail shipments in the last week.
Sawmills both on the CN(Canadian National) railroad and the CP have had blockages on various points in BC, AB and ON.
It has stopped all rail shipments east, west north and south in the country. It is costing their economy millions of dollars.
It is also causing customers in the US and Canada to have to buy out of warehouses or local reload facilities for the same products delayed in transit.
It is a classic example in our business as Force Major.
Alberta boys went and ran off the Edmonton protest. Our patience is razor thin. Many men are past the point of trying to reason or vote our way out. It’s a powder keg of Ottawa’s making.
The problem for the United States is whether we could survive with six or more Democat Senators from the new Canadian States.
Hard to believe they would vote for conservative senators, willing to abide by the Constitutional restraints on government.
If the pipeline through BC is blocked....thus there is no scope for exports to Asia, then that extra oil and gas will just need to be piped south. That’s a good thing for America. Every last drop and BTU that we don’t have to import from the Middle East or Venezuela is a net plus.
Alberta’s Child posted the best description of the current state of Canada about a week ago on a similar pipeline protest thread. I’m on my phone so can’t readily access it— but it certainly seems to applicable to this article as well!!
I see it more as the fact, that once a big government program gets in place, it is impossible to remove, so you just have to make the best of it.
That's why we need to nip this thing in the bud, here, because once it's in place, it's going to be there forever.
We’ll trade! Canada can have the Left Coast (not the entire states just the coastal strip), Hawaii and the Northeast. In exchange we’ll take Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and BC minus Vancouver.
As an added bonus we’ll even throw in Chicago, Miami and Occupied Northern Virginia!
How about it?
With their oil money they could actually afford pretty well run socialized medicine schemes on the provincial level.
How exactly do you transport oil to port cities from landlocked Alberta & SK?
What the these first nation chiefs are complaining about is a pipeline from AB to the BC coast.
There is only ONE pipeline from AB going to Vancouver. Where that current pipeline terminates it does not allow super tankers. They are too big. Therefore, the oil has to transloaded onto a smaller boat and brought out to where the ocean going super tanker sits. This all ads cost to the transportation.
This new pipeline will go directly to the ocean where they can load supertankers. It will lower the transportation cost of the oil. ALL of the current pipelines out of AB are at full capacity. That is why it is being shipped on railcars. This will be good for AB/Canada plus lower the cost of oil for refineries on the west coast of the US and other pacific rim countries(China, Korea, Japan).
This will result in an increase in the FOB net AB sale price for the oil. They will then increase production.
This is what all the Greenies do not want.
They look at production from the oil sands as A RAPE OF MOTHR EARTH. It s equivalent to open pit coal mining.
It has to be stopped.
Rotary snow plows are great for clearing rail lines.
Just sayin’
I think the usual suspects are gearing up for another festive, drawn out episode in the Dakotas this summer.
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