"The best way to get Keystone XL built is to make it irrelevant"

And last week the EU stepped back from regulating oil sands crude as vastly different from other oil sources.

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/10/07/eu-abandons-dirty-label-for-oil-sands/?__lsa=7637-4463

Reality seems to be setting in.

I AM Joe Molnar, Woodstock Ontario, and I have on this very issues, a petition ready to be presented in the Canadian Parliament by my Conservative MP Dave MacKenzie, duly signed by 25 Canadian Citizens, demanding an OIL resource Pipeline to be built to tidewater.
The Petition is shown below the dotted lines herein.
.................................................................................................................. In the NATIONAL INTEREST of ALL CANADIANS, the landlocked oil resources of ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN must be made available BY PIPELINE to the tidewaters of Canada in order to get WORLD PRICES FOR A NATURAL resource for the benefit of ALL CANADIANS, INCLUDING FIRST NATIONS!
WE, the undersigned Canadian Citizen petitioners urge parliamentary action, on these Canadian National Issues PRIOR TO THE NEXT FEDERAL GENERAL ELECTION

...............................................................................................................
Copies of the PETITION have been sent to various sources related to this matter whom are able to make this happen in Canada.

Faster to ship, but slower to build and far more costly per barrel than Keystone or the northern Gateway. Isn't one of the signs that you're dealing with a third world country that the backing of a strongman is needed to get anything done?

A very well written article. A refreshing surprise. I hope this project gets a fast track.

From an economic perspective, blocking KXL is the most bone headed move ever undertaken by Obama, and arguably any president ever.
This is a nation that currently imports a third of the oil they consume, will continue to import similarly into the foreseeable future, has underutilized refineries in Texas that cater to the heavy crude that once flowed freely from Venezuela, desperately needs the high paying jobs that the pipeline would provide, and needs to have some good national friends in the world.

If alternate routes are built, the damage will be permanent.

Why can't they see that?

frank mckenna deserves big recognition on this - hats off.
trivia for the day - while premier of new brunswick - he was the first politician canada-wide to acquire and publish his e-mail address.

Common sense, really, even in a foreign policy sense. Which is rare, I admit.

Cornering the Indian market, at the expense of the Russians, will put Canada, not the US, in the driver's seat geopolitically over the next decade or two. Also nice that private-sector incomes in New Brunswick will go up.

If we build Keystone the US benefits more than Canada. No doubt it provides a quick fix for exporting oilsands oil but in the long run the US benefits more than does Canada. That's why its a boneheaded move when the big zero refuses to sign off on it. Its also why - in the long run - we are better off without it. A truly made in Canada solution will provide more jobs for Canadians and more long term benefit for our own country. Diversifying ourselves away from dependence on exports to the US is likely a long term strategic benefit as well.

Energy East may cost more - and take longer - to build than Keystone XL, but the oil exported will be at world price, not discounted to the WTI benchmark. Conceivably, that's a $20 BILLION annual boost to Canada. A great way to tell Obama to stuff it.

Hey, what about all the dead polar bears this misguided effort will cause? What about global warming? What about the violation of First Nation sovereignty? What about oil spills from the pipeline? How many women and minorities would be hired to build it? We are on a slippery slope, my friends. Write Premier Harper now and DEMAND this environmental disaster be strangled in the crib. It's worse than Ebola!

It may be best to go both East & West, this would flesh out opposition within the First Nations. Some tribes have sold out to the US Environmentalist Industry. Forcing those choices into the light of day has advantages.

The Negative publicity of political manipulation, not legitimate negotiation of First nation interests, may result in Canada eliminating the festering Indian Act.

A made in Canada solution for a made in Kenya presidential failure.

Get the east west pipeline built ASAP, and you'll see the opposition to both Keystone and Northern Gateway lose almost all of its steam. Those projects will suddenly become much less costly.

If one studies the NBC pipeline implementation strategy, then it's clear how the pipeline companies have cleverly made an 'end run' around the eco-twits and the first immigrants to make them essentially irrelevant. NBC pipeline construction is proceeding as planned on schedule, with tacit approval from both provincial and federal govts.

If this big long jiant cylander of oil pipe built through, they can use square box in top. And use adveertise with electric sign flashinng mix with gras yard with angle. Like. Torontllike QEW highway and art statues in top to make look view for ads can make money.even pass of oil san inbvisiblecolourwith paint look nicd and smell ofoil need fresh air with filter air b or in top make bicycle road but still sand and oil. Transfer why not built new refineryin calgary and moved oil only is more benefical for canada still I do not understand politic

this could play badly in the south of the border up coming elections, even the unionistas will be pissed and may just jump ship , cuz there are a lot of jobs hangin on this sucker. Go obumbles Go, screw your dems up their behind by leading with your behind. What a dumb chimp in chief!

Great idea!

A Barry of oil will us rich and our feckless neighbours to the south envious.

They voted for him and now come the rewards.

BTW, isn't it wonderful to hear Frank McKenna sounding like a conservative?

We've really been jerked around on this one. I doubt that the US will let us get very far from its
hegemony so it is rational to expect that we will be reeled in, to our profit.

BTW ms. McMillan's stupid meme, "I keep hearing it said that air power alone can't stop ISIS.
I don't hear it spoken in Japanese", which always was historically ill-informed, is really beginning
to rankle as ISIS gets closer and closer to Baghdad. Obama would admire it, though, if he ever read
it and if he knew where Japan is.

Exercises for Ms. McMillan: learn differences between Mk. 9 and Mk. 14 torpedoes; read
"Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan", by Clay Blair Jr. I will have more.

This deal has to keep the Irvings on a short leash. They were a big beneficiary of the NEP, it kept their monopolistic position in Eastern Canada intact, as it killed the flow of oil from West to Eastern refineries in QC (that no longer exist.)

Yeah, Air Power alone neither defeated Britain or Germany. Both were bombed mercilessly.

This also made Fox News' "Journal Editorial Report" this morning under "Hits and Misses". Harper's stance was billed as a hit.
http://tinyurl.com/nuwrhur

Obama will be remembered as the absolute worst American president, as would Turdo la doo if Canada was dumb enough to vote the twit in over a statesman like Harper

Yeah well, Line 9 was built by Enbridge back in the 70's to move oil from Sarnia to Montreal.....then the flow was reversed to move....now reverting to the original purpose is currently frustrated by kneejerk enviro-jerks.

To complete this will entail building new line across Quebec and New Brunswick...good luck getting through anarchist Quebec. Quebec is the biggest de facto reserve in the world.

The Americans shoulda picked their own damn cotton and the Brits never shoulda even considered the Quebec Act and shoulda outlawed French.

How in the wild world of sports, did the Can-AM (Alaska) Highway ever get built? Maybe just go ahead and build Northern gateway and deploy the ARMY along the route.....as a training exercise. Same with Energy East. We can hang the protestors in Regina....

Then there are the fools who propose building refineries and exporting finished product....to who? There is no export market for refined petroleum except for Canada, Cuba and Venezuela....who have suppliers. Even Newfoundland has a refinery.

Just to give you a bit of perspective the Hiroshima bomb Little Boy yield was measured at 15 thousand tons TNT equivalent http://www.warbirdforum.com/hiroshim.htm. The Sendai earthquake which caused the tsunami that hit Fukashima had an explosive force of 6.7 trillion tons of TNT http://amazingnotes.com/2011/03/15/japan-earthquake-release-energy-equivalent-to-6-7-trillion-tons-of-tnt/.

These oil companies need to grow a pair and start building pipelines without government approval.

we need to utilize the same route as the rail takes, with some ingenuity and cash I'm sure the pipelines could parrallel the rail some way or another and then the natives and all other malcontents can go suck a sockeye with their anti oil protests while wearing oilers ballcaps.

I'm in Tofino at the moment. Nearby is a Tsunami danger area,wtf?

Lets change the subject from earthquakes or the like till we're outa Dodge okay?

WAIT, I think I felt something.....

sasquatch "How in the wild world of sports, did the Can-AM (Alaska) Highway ever get built?"

How did we build a 1,387 mile road through virgin forest and mountains in the remotest part of North America from March 8, 1942 to September 24, 1942?

At the time there was a severe shortage of panty waist bureaucrats and politicians screwing up things. Today the environmental review would take 5 years.

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