SDA – always ahead of the curve (November 2009) – “Accounts of western governments (from the local to the federal) kneecapping the very infrastructure upon which modern metropolitan life depends – including reliable electricity, food production, and the transport of essential goods – are so routine now, one can hardly keep track”
WSJ, November 2011;
Some 830,000 Connecticut customers are only now having their power restored after a snowstorm knocked out the state’s grid last month—but the Environmental Protection Agency continues to claim that its regulatory agenda won’t degrade U.S. electric reliability. The reality is that the EPA’s own staffers are—or used to be—worried, and their political superiors have erased the warnings.
In recent months, concerns have been growing that the agency’s torrent of new air-pollution rules will lead to blackouts or to the rolling outages that crisscrossed California and Arizona in September. Yet the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has continued its “who’s on first” routine to avoid its mandate to protect electric grid reliability, while the EPA is trying to rush out a new utility rule that on paper will reduce mercury and other emissions but is really designed to close coal-fired power plants.
Related. No point waiting around while your biggest customer contemplates suicide.
We should have been looking for new markets 40+ years ago when the bootleggers son became POTUS,especially after the way he fawked the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.
Steven Harper will smile for the cameras when he is around the dildo Obama, but being a businessman and someone in charge of Canada and its well being, for all Canadians, he will be meeting with the Chinese and Indians and any other potential customer for our energy, coal oil uranium potash nat gas oil sands, yes we have it all in western Canada, the best place to be. If it were Paul Martin or Cretien there, well CSL ships with Somalian crews would be shipping Wheat board wheat free to Russia with a kickback to the Grand Mere account. Harper makes us proud, I feel sorry for the Americans who knew this clown Obama was nothing more than Soros’s puppet with instructions written by Hollywood, but are now stuck with this narcissistic dud. The energy from Alberta will find a market, business always trumps stupidity.
The NP this weekend had a column recommending that besides the Pacific outlet that domestic pipelines be revamped to deliver Western supply to Eastern Canada demand (currently imported). Makes sense to me. The Americans risk infrastructure being put in place that permanently transfers Cdn production to other markets making them more and more dependent on Hugo, Saudi, Iran, etc.
I’m sure Asian clients would rather take stable supply and let the Americans freeze in the dark.
So this is what the collapse of a great country looks like, one step at a time.
The funding for these JOB snuffing environidiots comes in large part from the Mo countries Saudi etc, an old oilman who had worked all over the world, told me 20 years ago, “when the Arabs find out how big the AB SK oilsands are, you will see terrorism and espionage in big proportions”. The sheikyourbooties don’t like any body else having wealth. The useless idiots out of Hollywood whose very existence needs plastic/film, can wail and steer Obongo all they want, but intelligence and original thinking, (non-existent with actors) will pave the way for us western Canadians to wear tea towels and little belts, naw we’ll stick to our present hats here in the west.
Can you say “Sustainability”? Then you have successfully used the handy UN-made generic justification for political disruption/regulation of, food supply, energy supply, land use, resource use, expropriation of private property and the limiting of public mobility.
“Think global, act local”, the mantra of yesteryears’ green hippy, has been adopted by regulatory authorities to undermine private resource sovereignty and regulate us into a reliant/compliant bureaucratic austerity
–All done by tapping into our politician’s natural lust to expand their power/control by providing them with a blueprint to grow government to enormous proportions using the regulation/rationing of natural resources, agricultural and energy production – UN Agenda 21 is the blue print for massive government growth and intervention. Read it, then take a close look at your local government – there will be a “sustainability” cabal locally and a sustainability junta provincially busy at work locally putting public and private land/resources out of production and limiting/taxing personal and public mobility – allegedly to save the planet from we soiled barbaric masses.
From the story: “Until now, key participants in the TPP had shunned Canada because of its reluctance to put the highly protected dairy and poultry industries on the table. But on Sunday Canada and Mexico indicated their willingness to join the talks – handing Mr. Obama a chance to pronounce the APEC summit a success.”
Interesting. Maybe we will get a two-fer, a pipeline to Kitimat, and cheaper cheese and chicken.
The Federal government should simply declare that construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline is an overriding national interest, and that construction will take place, regardless. Set a deadline for construction to commence, and advise “stakeholders” along the route to structure their presentations in such a way as to best protect their interests, given that construction is inevitable. In other words, there is going to be a pie; you can’t stop the pie, so might as well have a piece of it.
Contemplates suicide?
They are already siting in a closed garage with the gasoline engine part of the Prius running.
It’s easy to laugh at the US backslide into poverty and tyranny via the green anti-industrial revolution but that proposed pipeline to Prince Rupert will just as easily be stalled by a couple of FN injunctions bought and paid for with beads and trinkets from the same US Green Foundations. The Greens are still winning and it will remain so until the squealing is at least an order of magnitude greater.
nah john, what will we do – is authorize those Australian style super trucks to ply BC’s highways. Won’t take but 1 or 2 wrecks for the greenies to see the light! Remember – delivered oil = profit, spilled oil = loss.
They are already siting in a closed garage with the gasoline engine part of the Prius running.
~Abe Froman
That’s funny.
Reminds me of the scene in Bachelor Party where the stoner is in the bathroom putting the electric razor to his wrist.
By the time November 2012 rolls around the American economy is going to need a crash cart.
The real trick is going to be for the Republicans to select a candidate that knows where to apply the defibulator paddles.
Nice juxtaposition there – an idiot prince of liberalism, next to a premier who actually possesses the a.) intelligence, and b.) will to improve the wellbeing of his countrymen.
I wonder if any of Obama’s courtiers were able to explain what Harper said meant for the US down the road?
They are already siting in a closed garage with the gasoline engine part of the Prius running.
Posted by: Abe Froman at November 14, 2011 12:03 PM
Hee, heeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
And a mortaged-to-the-hilt garage at that!
They are already siting in a closed garage with the gasoline engine part of the Prius running.
Posted by: Abe Froman at November 14, 2011 12:03 PM
Hee, heeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
And a mortaged-to-the-hilt garage at that!
The question “If the pipeline isn’t going to be built to carry Western Canada oil to the Gulf for refining why can’t the refineries be built in Western Canada? Canada needs jobs to…” was asked on an Ottawa radio call in show today…can anyone offer their opinion?
All well and good to be talking about new markets in Asia. Prospects would be better if we dumped the national dairy quota systems. Even Japan has given up its insane protection of rice farmers. Until we dump our marketing boards, we’re going to be the odd man out in the APEC meetings.
Glengarrian, there are several reasons why we don’t build the refineries in Western Canada.
1. There’s surplus refining capacity in Texas, and using existing capacity is always cheaper than building new.
2. If we ship crude oil we only need one pipeline. If we build refineries in Canada we’d need lots of pipelines to ship all the different products.
3. Have you seen how difficult it is to build a new refinery in Canada. Irving has been going through nightmares for years getting environmental assessment approval for Canaport near Saint John.
Thanks cgh.
Maybe a better question is “When are politicans gonna wake up and choke off the funding (from the middle east) for the environMENTAL groups?”
(Sigh)
Yeah, I know, Glengarrian. Problem is, probably never. Politicians respond to the demands of the voters. And the Boomers have been suffering from a guilt complex for about 30 years now. They can afford this, they think, because life is so comfortable and so easy. I remember about 20 years ago the City of Toronto was trying to upgrade their municipal distribution system. Up to that point, most of downtown Toronto had turn-of-the-century 4kV piano wire. So in the ’80s, Toronto Hydro planned to upgrade it all to a modern 28kV system.
Well, it took them three years to go through the environmental assessment. Endless arguments about whether the whole system should go underground or not. Do you know how much it costs to retrofit the urban core electricity system underground? Gazillions. The Green councilors dragging this out (led by Jack Layton when he was on council) blithely believed that it could be simply tossed off on the ratepayers.
Another case at the same time in Toronto, they wanted to build a transformer station on The Esplanade because most of that area had only one feeder into it. Again arguments for years from locals “who didn’t want to have to look at a big, ugly transformer station”. The August 2003 blackout finally put an end to the arguments 10 years later.
People are stupid, greedy and short-sighted. And when a handful are outraged, however misguided, the media sucks up to them, and the politicians have to listen.
Stupidity is everywhere. Alberta and Saskatchewan are no different. There’s always lots of Weibo Ludwigs out there. And the media is always willing to give a bully pulpit to these morons.
Ive seen the Green future. Its a desert of rusting wind farms, with people clumped together for protection in rural enclaves, with our cities abandoned. For lack of food or energy, if not people.