Yep,it’s the 1990’s all over again. The Dippers have cancelled the LNG terminal,the Massey Bridge over the Fraser and soon the Site “C” dam. Meantime,they are about to increase ICBC rates and disability pensions,and the carbon tax increase is next.
That rumbling sound you hear is the stampeding of industries OUT of the Province,to wait it out until the NDP are booted. https://canadians.org/blog/delta-richmond-chapter-optimistic-massey-bridge-will-be-cancelled
The lunatic Left are ecstatic.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no dumber voters in the world than Canadian Liberals, NDP’ers and Indigenous peoples. If you Google Dubai and look for pictures of the 1940’s you’ll see a collection of mud huts and dirt roads. Fast forward to today and you’ll see possibly the richest city in the world. How did that come about, selling energy. Energy the only commodity that Dubai can trade. We stupid Canadians are no contest to the Arab traders. We’ve been importing oil for years and paying big bucks for it and now when we could be making some money the NDP, Liberals and Natives are turning off the taps. I shudder to think that I’ve been paying taxes for over forty years to the incompetents that run this country. Sorry for the incoherent rant but I just can’t compose myself enough with what has been happening to Canada in the last few years to adequately explain my frustration.
It was dead in the water before the election of the watermelon coalition but with Climate Imam Weaver and the watermelon NDP in charge along with their SCOC-ruled master race overlords, that door is nailed shut. The anti-industrial revolution is alive and well in Canada. It’s no wonder US money is pulling out. The climate Imam says that fossil fuels are yesterday’s economy and it’s the “emerging economy” that will bring prosperity, whatever the F..k that is! I love being lectured on economics by a litigious academic CAGW hysteria pimp.
I’m in the process of transferring title on father’s house. It’s located in northern B. C.
For some inexplicable reason, people wonder why I don’t want to move there…..
And we wonder why we have a .79 cent dollar?
Is it any surprise that we have a .79 cent dollar?
Dear Mr. Kim:
If you’re looking for a target in North America for your first nuclear strike…..
That is not why Dubai is rich. Dubai has little energy but they have lots of economic freedom. It’s one of the world’s freest economies.
Exactly and all of the above. Antenor and John, you have some bingos there.
Butt some of us have time to wear Ramavan socks and attend every deviant parade going. Venezuela here we come.
It’s all coincidences Don, just like the fudge it budget and the Fast Ferries. It’s always unrelated coincidences with ENDPee fckups.
And money is no object with the Marxists either, I expect a 10 Billion deficit, given the profligate welfare spending, bribes to renters and all the unions, as well as the fees for cancelling Site C and the Massey Bridge. That’s not even mentioning their soon to launch solar panel and windmill projects. Gotta follow Morontariowes lead…….
The socialist magic money machine will find it all of course, after all we have a vindictive, whiny social worker as finance minister, what could possibly go wrong?
Christy could stay on, that’s what. Is she gone yet?
The US will be happy to convert it to LNG and export it to the Far East for you. Of course, you might not a good price, what with all the pipeline congestion from US gas, and the need to service US customers first.
No price is too high for the NDP to virtue signal. After all, it isn’t their money.
Me tellum whiteman BC no go for any big projects.Me likem big cheques from Tides Canada and fed govment.Cheif tellum whiteman go Alberta now get job.What you say Albertascrewed by NDP now too umm too bad.
A win for Butts and the greens! Victory through unemployment and poverty!
It was only an $11 billion investment. The Federal Liberals have borrowed more than twice that amount in 1 year – with much praise from the IMF.
Canadians doing what Canadians do best…killing investment, innovation and wealth creation at the altar of the socialist Gods.
Today we hear if the Six Nations reserve in Ontario can shutdown Energy East. Local CBC radio did a softball interview with the chief, who claims shutting down the conversion of an *existing* pipeline will save the earth for our children. Who will be selling china cigarettes and stealing trucks for a living..
The UAE have 98 billion barrels of oil in proven reserves and produce 3.5 million barrels a day, which places them in the top 10 producers. They also have more natural gas reserves than Canada. I wouldn’t call that ‘little energy’.
But I agree freedom is necessary to achieve prosperity. Something progressives still have to learn.
Won’t happen because these same groups contributed to the Liberals in the last federal election.
Chief Sitting Pretty, that would be funny if it wasn’t so true.
$200 billion of capital investment lost in Rupert. Investments which would have crated a world scale industry. If Canada actually had a ‘business plan’ the loss of this in vestment would be a unmitigated disaster. As it is the responsibility will not have to be borne by the politicians, the natives or the American interests who plotted so successfully to keep Canada a back water player.
When was the last time Canadians saw a detailed accounting of lost revenue due to not exporting energy overseas? Lost jobs, lost corporate and government revenue. We take oil revenue at WTI price, not global. The industry risk of selling to one customer is maintained. Japan and China should be 2nd & 3rd largest energy customers and their combined purchases should rival the USA. Did not happen and now Canada enters NAFTA talks without that strength to use.
Canadian governance is at a all time low. The West has been put in its place by the east. I do not make any investments in Canada anymore. It all goes to the USA and globally. I doubt it changes in my life time. Done and done!
The BC Liberals were no better. Rememeber it was the BC Libs who brought in a carbon tax. It was the BC Libs that, despite holding majority power for *16 years* did not get rid of ICBC. It was the BC Libs that allowed foreign ownership of real estate in this province to get totally out of hand. While the NDP started the process of using BC Hydro as an ATM cash machine the BC Libs withdrew cash from Hydro at a rate that made the former NDP governments look like penny pinchers. It was the BC Libs that brought in evil two-tier electricity rates. It was the BC Libs that ruined the quality of math eduction in BC. And so on, I could make a very long list.
Here in BC we have simply traded one set of useless clowns for another set of useless clowns.
Don’t forget that it was Dad of Spud who resentfully referred to Canadians as “hewers of wood and drawers of water”, partly because those resources found a ready market in the U. S.
Good rant. Too bad it isn’t being rubbed in the faces of every Canadian instead of just this choir.
Dubai’s economy developed exclusively on oil but it thrives based on the fact that it’s not Saudi Arabia. It’s an international city, not a stone-age Arab city.
Is anyone even surprised that that .79 dollar is still at .79, passing .80 & expected to “rally”, according to the Financial Post, with all the foreign investment checking out & businesses closing in small town Ontario & elsewhere? Even with record numbers of .gov employment & cash swilling, what’s behind those numbers?
Last time the loonie reached such heights, the Central Kontrol freaks blew a gasket….too high, says they. Petro-Loonie, bad for manufacturing in Canada. What gives with that? No current screaming about a high loonie. The FP also posts that Canada is to surpass the G7 & even the USA, on GDP or some such bilge.
Any comments? Anyone posting here living somewhere in Canada where the economy is cracking right along, to support such claims & the current loonie price for CDN? I’d sure like to know, because my money is on the USA, over CDN investment wise. For the forseeable future.
The ridiculousness of it all being that a natural gas leak would have no long-term environmental impact at all. A few people in the local area might suffocate or burn but past that it cleans itself up. No worse than a train wreck or 100 other accidents.
What you said is mostly true.
Except for the fact that we are FAR FAR WORSE OFF with Lenins useful idiots at the helm. There needs to be a housecleaning with the Libs, first off, bye bye Christy. She’s toxic. She had no message in the election, other than “I’m doing a good job!” Voters are stupid, they want free stuff and some visions of the future. Whoregan gave them that, although it’s mostly BS, lies, and welfare spending, that will catch up quickly. His solution is to save the residents from fee hikes, by running massive deficits, and killing projects for the future. Small minded socialists, just looking to go to the trough to pay their unions, that’s all they are. They still can’t figure out why things fall apart when the ENDPee is in power. They have no understanding of macroeconomics, just their own union greed
It seems that each new generation of B. C. voters has to learn the hard lesson about the NDP being in charge.
I was in Grade 12 when Barrett and his gang of idiots were elected. It didn’t take the electorate long to realize what a bunch of bozos they were and chucked the Dippers out in the next election.
Some 20 years later, the NDP was back but voters took longer to figure out that lefties did more harm than good.
Now, more than 20 years after the previous disaster, they’re back again.
Christy knows that BC needs a new long term revenue source. Without LNG or an oil pipeline to the west coast, B.C. is in for trouble.
Meanwhile the IMF has upgraded Canada’s growth prospects for 2017, citing higher prices for oil. WTF?
I called the death of the Petronas LNG project over a year ago. The NDP was the final nail but the Libs – Provincial and Federal – were busy hammering in nails of their own for the last two years. When Harper lost the Federal Election and JT opened the doors wide to non-Canadian funded Greenies and Aboriginal objectors the resulting huge pile-on of extra costs and delays snuffed the last hint of any remaining economic potential. That was the plan all along.
The Americans will now own Asian LNG shipments. Pipelines from the eastern Marcellus are being planned to west coast LNG terminals. And the greenies can smoke legalized dope in peace and the aboriginals can hold their ever-empty soup bowls out for more from a country they’ve helped with their greed, hate and stupidity to make poorer.
High fives all around for traitorous Canadian bastards.
Most of the UAE’ reserves (95 per cent of the nation’s oil reserves and about 94 per cent of its gas reserves) are in Abu Dhabi, both offshore and onshore.
Dubai’s oil production, which once accounted for about half the emirate’s GDP, has fallen dramatically in recent years. As a result, the emirate has swung from being a net oil exporter to importing most of its petroleum requirements. http://www.uaeinteract.com/business/oilandgas.asp
Hey Rat.
Wangcouver voters don’t care, those rural yokels can go on welfare as far they are concerned. Cutting down trees, digging up rocks and sucking ooze from the ground is just icky and nasty.
Funny, where do they think the revenue base comes from? And well paying jobs in the resource sector? Buh bye. The ENDPee solution to everything is massive deficits and gouge taxpayers for their green dreams.
Notice how it’s Weaver that is the Press Rep for the ENDPee? Funny hi the press keeps running to that pompous windbag, what. POS that guy is, buys his own bloviating BS. Why isn’t there a giant windmill in his yard?
Yes, the urbanites need a good economic downturn to wake them up. Whoregan will solve the housing “crisis “, the rental “crisis”, the opiate “crisis”, and any other thing the media deems a “crisis”. Why, he’s next to Gawd and Obama on the saint scale.
Wangcouver voters don’t care, those rural yokels can go on welfare as far they are concerned. Cutting down trees, digging up rocks and sucking ooze from the ground is just icky and nasty.
Tell me about it. I was a grad student at UBC and I constantly encountered that mentality. That was one reason I left after a year.
Us cheeps are purdy lucky dat Cheep Weenuk keep sending us duh graby!
Re: D Dan Small minded socialists. You nailed it. I am glad I never stopped drinking.
People do not understand freedom.
The economy will falter under those dimbulbs, clearly. What is unclear is how long they will get to dismantle a once bustling economy. All it will take is one vote where the Greentards are not happy. In between now and then, a lot of damage can be done.
Urbanites buy the Green BS, thinking that windmills and solar panels will save us all, despite the failures of these systems everywhere, Morontariowe is the prime example of green largesse and distress. “It wont happen this time!”
Just watch the corporate investment escape here, fast, and it wont be to Alberta, as in the past.
And it will be the young that will pay, again for the failed exploits of the Dippers.
Christy has to go too, by the way. Bring on the Falconator!
I just don’t see how this has anything to do with the NDP.
You b@stard. You read my book! That’s ok, really , so long as you remain a nice, domesticated conservative, who refuses to use our own rules to fight and defeat us.
Really? Well, let me help you…..political instability and taxation issues all factor into “economic” decisions. Odd that LNG plants are being built elsewhere with the same “economics”….minus the political uncertainty.
Re: BC gas and oil projects.
There’s a great documentary that I’ve watched on how oil and gas companies deal with governments who throw wrenches into the gears of oil development. . Do keep in mind that theoretically, the present government has a one seat majority.
And Petronas has a lot of cash. https://youtu.be/gOs8Cbo_KYk
Why not cancel Site C and build gas fired generators? Why must the B.C. economy depend on exports of resources in exchange for endless waves of exploitative foreigners and their money? What’s the point of being Canadian if everything is for sale and your children can’t afford a normal Christian life?
Good thinking!!I do however believe that the day Notley and her crew are ousted, the oil companies will start filling the gaps.
Was the Bennett dam a mistake? Think 50 years and counting, of cheap, dependable ELECTRIC power.
Oh yeah, GREEN TOO! One would think that sanctimonious boorish Weaver could figure that out. BTW he hates gas too. And, if Site C generates extra power, Alberta for one will buy it. They’re turning off their coal generation with little to replace it. Then there’s the Muricans who have grown allergic to nucular and coal. They will be more than willing to buy our CLEAN power.
Economics 101, something the ENDPee is still in kindergarten, relatively
Was the Bennett dam a mistake?
I don’t think so. My father made a lot of money by doing work for some of the companies associated with its construction. The Bennett Dam helped pay for a lot of my undergrad education!
By the way, I was on hand when the first 3 generators were commissioned. Our scout troop got to watch the proceedings with a better view than the general public because our scoutmaster worked for B. C. Hydro.
Nothing wrong with dams. But why build more dams when we have other means available that could be cheaper. Please understand that I’m not presuming gas generators are more efficient than dams. Maybe dams are a good idea. I just don’t know the data. Another thing…. why on earth should energy rich Alberta be buying power from BC? None of this makes any sense.
Only in Canada, could we get in the way of LNG in a deep, coldwater port thousands of miles closer to the consumers of LNG.
Customers are now taking shipments of US LNG from the US Gulf Coast. For decades boats have left the Persian gulf and headed to Korea and Japan, its mind boggling that Canada couldn’t get this done.
Unlike the US most of Canada’s energy outside the oilsands is natural gas and we (the owners of the gas) are getting very low prices for our gas because its so far away from those who need it.
These resources are assests of the citizens and when we leave them in the ground we should be recognizing the writedown. As you be dam sure those who lend us money sure as hell notice
Your right, the ENDPee doesnt make any sense.
If it were up to me, Natgas would be used, essentially for home heating and commercial usage. Don’t burn it for electric. And yes, Hydro is the most dependable energy we have, bar none
I think nuclear would be far more dependable. I live in the Peace and while most around here are for the dam because money for toys and crap, I see a huge cost in flooding that valley. Why are we destroying our land just so the Chinese can get rich? And don’t fool yourself, the Conservatives are just as bizarre as the dippers.
Oh geepers better keep those money lenders happy… better bring in more foriegners to keep this baby boomer economy going… better sell everything we possibly cam. ..
Yep,it’s the 1990’s all over again. The Dippers have cancelled the LNG terminal,the Massey Bridge over the Fraser and soon the Site “C” dam. Meantime,they are about to increase ICBC rates and disability pensions,and the carbon tax increase is next.
That rumbling sound you hear is the stampeding of industries OUT of the Province,to wait it out until the NDP are booted.
https://canadians.org/blog/delta-richmond-chapter-optimistic-massey-bridge-will-be-cancelled
The lunatic Left are ecstatic.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no dumber voters in the world than Canadian Liberals, NDP’ers and Indigenous peoples. If you Google Dubai and look for pictures of the 1940’s you’ll see a collection of mud huts and dirt roads. Fast forward to today and you’ll see possibly the richest city in the world. How did that come about, selling energy. Energy the only commodity that Dubai can trade. We stupid Canadians are no contest to the Arab traders. We’ve been importing oil for years and paying big bucks for it and now when we could be making some money the NDP, Liberals and Natives are turning off the taps. I shudder to think that I’ve been paying taxes for over forty years to the incompetents that run this country. Sorry for the incoherent rant but I just can’t compose myself enough with what has been happening to Canada in the last few years to adequately explain my frustration.
It was dead in the water before the election of the watermelon coalition but with Climate Imam Weaver and the watermelon NDP in charge along with their SCOC-ruled master race overlords, that door is nailed shut. The anti-industrial revolution is alive and well in Canada. It’s no wonder US money is pulling out. The climate Imam says that fossil fuels are yesterday’s economy and it’s the “emerging economy” that will bring prosperity, whatever the F..k that is! I love being lectured on economics by a litigious academic CAGW hysteria pimp.
I’m in the process of transferring title on father’s house. It’s located in northern B. C.
For some inexplicable reason, people wonder why I don’t want to move there…..
And we wonder why we have a .79 cent dollar?
Is it any surprise that we have a .79 cent dollar?
Dear Mr. Kim:
If you’re looking for a target in North America for your first nuclear strike…..
That is not why Dubai is rich. Dubai has little energy but they have lots of economic freedom. It’s one of the world’s freest economies.
Exactly and all of the above. Antenor and John, you have some bingos there.
Butt some of us have time to wear Ramavan socks and attend every deviant parade going. Venezuela here we come.
It’s all coincidences Don, just like the fudge it budget and the Fast Ferries. It’s always unrelated coincidences with ENDPee fckups.
And money is no object with the Marxists either, I expect a 10 Billion deficit, given the profligate welfare spending, bribes to renters and all the unions, as well as the fees for cancelling Site C and the Massey Bridge. That’s not even mentioning their soon to launch solar panel and windmill projects. Gotta follow Morontariowes lead…….
The socialist magic money machine will find it all of course, after all we have a vindictive, whiny social worker as finance minister, what could possibly go wrong?
Christy could stay on, that’s what. Is she gone yet?
The US will be happy to convert it to LNG and export it to the Far East for you. Of course, you might not a good price, what with all the pipeline congestion from US gas, and the need to service US customers first.
No price is too high for the NDP to virtue signal. After all, it isn’t their money.
Me tellum whiteman BC no go for any big projects.Me likem big cheques from Tides Canada and fed govment.Cheif tellum whiteman go Alberta now get job.What you say Albertascrewed by NDP now too umm too bad.
A win for Butts and the greens! Victory through unemployment and poverty!
The natives are doing it for the uS “Greenback”, literally. They have been the target of a concerted US green campaign of bribery and propaganda to shut down Canadian development.
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/vivian-krause-the-cash-pipeline-opposing-canadian-oil-pipelines/wcm/499c6ab4-8a0a-44fe-9855-21c9d98cc026
The Canadian government should raise a diplomatic stink and start revoking the charitable status of some.
It was only an $11 billion investment. The Federal Liberals have borrowed more than twice that amount in 1 year – with much praise from the IMF.
Canadians doing what Canadians do best…killing investment, innovation and wealth creation at the altar of the socialist Gods.
Today we hear if the Six Nations reserve in Ontario can shutdown Energy East. Local CBC radio did a softball interview with the chief, who claims shutting down the conversion of an *existing* pipeline will save the earth for our children. Who will be selling china cigarettes and stealing trucks for a living..
The UAE have 98 billion barrels of oil in proven reserves and produce 3.5 million barrels a day, which places them in the top 10 producers. They also have more natural gas reserves than Canada. I wouldn’t call that ‘little energy’.
But I agree freedom is necessary to achieve prosperity. Something progressives still have to learn.
Won’t happen because these same groups contributed to the Liberals in the last federal election.
Chief Sitting Pretty, that would be funny if it wasn’t so true.
$200 billion of capital investment lost in Rupert. Investments which would have crated a world scale industry. If Canada actually had a ‘business plan’ the loss of this in vestment would be a unmitigated disaster. As it is the responsibility will not have to be borne by the politicians, the natives or the American interests who plotted so successfully to keep Canada a back water player.
When was the last time Canadians saw a detailed accounting of lost revenue due to not exporting energy overseas? Lost jobs, lost corporate and government revenue. We take oil revenue at WTI price, not global. The industry risk of selling to one customer is maintained. Japan and China should be 2nd & 3rd largest energy customers and their combined purchases should rival the USA. Did not happen and now Canada enters NAFTA talks without that strength to use.
Canadian governance is at a all time low. The West has been put in its place by the east. I do not make any investments in Canada anymore. It all goes to the USA and globally. I doubt it changes in my life time. Done and done!
The BC Liberals were no better. Rememeber it was the BC Libs who brought in a carbon tax. It was the BC Libs that, despite holding majority power for *16 years* did not get rid of ICBC. It was the BC Libs that allowed foreign ownership of real estate in this province to get totally out of hand. While the NDP started the process of using BC Hydro as an ATM cash machine the BC Libs withdrew cash from Hydro at a rate that made the former NDP governments look like penny pinchers. It was the BC Libs that brought in evil two-tier electricity rates. It was the BC Libs that ruined the quality of math eduction in BC. And so on, I could make a very long list.
Here in BC we have simply traded one set of useless clowns for another set of useless clowns.
Don’t forget that it was Dad of Spud who resentfully referred to Canadians as “hewers of wood and drawers of water”, partly because those resources found a ready market in the U. S.
Good rant. Too bad it isn’t being rubbed in the faces of every Canadian instead of just this choir.
Dubai’s economy developed exclusively on oil but it thrives based on the fact that it’s not Saudi Arabia. It’s an international city, not a stone-age Arab city.
Is anyone even surprised that that .79 dollar is still at .79, passing .80 & expected to “rally”, according to the Financial Post, with all the foreign investment checking out & businesses closing in small town Ontario & elsewhere? Even with record numbers of .gov employment & cash swilling, what’s behind those numbers?
Last time the loonie reached such heights, the Central Kontrol freaks blew a gasket….too high, says they. Petro-Loonie, bad for manufacturing in Canada. What gives with that? No current screaming about a high loonie. The FP also posts that Canada is to surpass the G7 & even the USA, on GDP or some such bilge.
Any comments? Anyone posting here living somewhere in Canada where the economy is cracking right along, to support such claims & the current loonie price for CDN? I’d sure like to know, because my money is on the USA, over CDN investment wise. For the forseeable future.
The ridiculousness of it all being that a natural gas leak would have no long-term environmental impact at all. A few people in the local area might suffocate or burn but past that it cleans itself up. No worse than a train wreck or 100 other accidents.
What you said is mostly true.
Except for the fact that we are FAR FAR WORSE OFF with Lenins useful idiots at the helm. There needs to be a housecleaning with the Libs, first off, bye bye Christy. She’s toxic. She had no message in the election, other than “I’m doing a good job!” Voters are stupid, they want free stuff and some visions of the future. Whoregan gave them that, although it’s mostly BS, lies, and welfare spending, that will catch up quickly. His solution is to save the residents from fee hikes, by running massive deficits, and killing projects for the future. Small minded socialists, just looking to go to the trough to pay their unions, that’s all they are. They still can’t figure out why things fall apart when the ENDPee is in power. They have no understanding of macroeconomics, just their own union greed
It seems that each new generation of B. C. voters has to learn the hard lesson about the NDP being in charge.
I was in Grade 12 when Barrett and his gang of idiots were elected. It didn’t take the electorate long to realize what a bunch of bozos they were and chucked the Dippers out in the next election.
Some 20 years later, the NDP was back but voters took longer to figure out that lefties did more harm than good.
Now, more than 20 years after the previous disaster, they’re back again.
Christy knows that BC needs a new long term revenue source. Without LNG or an oil pipeline to the west coast, B.C. is in for trouble.
Meanwhile the IMF has upgraded Canada’s growth prospects for 2017, citing higher prices for oil. WTF?
I called the death of the Petronas LNG project over a year ago. The NDP was the final nail but the Libs – Provincial and Federal – were busy hammering in nails of their own for the last two years. When Harper lost the Federal Election and JT opened the doors wide to non-Canadian funded Greenies and Aboriginal objectors the resulting huge pile-on of extra costs and delays snuffed the last hint of any remaining economic potential. That was the plan all along.
The Americans will now own Asian LNG shipments. Pipelines from the eastern Marcellus are being planned to west coast LNG terminals. And the greenies can smoke legalized dope in peace and the aboriginals can hold their ever-empty soup bowls out for more from a country they’ve helped with their greed, hate and stupidity to make poorer.
High fives all around for traitorous Canadian bastards.
Most of the UAE’ reserves (95 per cent of the nation’s oil reserves and about 94 per cent of its gas reserves) are in Abu Dhabi, both offshore and onshore.
Dubai’s oil production, which once accounted for about half the emirate’s GDP, has fallen dramatically in recent years. As a result, the emirate has swung from being a net oil exporter to importing most of its petroleum requirements.
http://www.uaeinteract.com/business/oilandgas.asp
Hey Rat.
Wangcouver voters don’t care, those rural yokels can go on welfare as far they are concerned. Cutting down trees, digging up rocks and sucking ooze from the ground is just icky and nasty.
Funny, where do they think the revenue base comes from? And well paying jobs in the resource sector? Buh bye. The ENDPee solution to everything is massive deficits and gouge taxpayers for their green dreams.
Notice how it’s Weaver that is the Press Rep for the ENDPee? Funny hi the press keeps running to that pompous windbag, what. POS that guy is, buys his own bloviating BS. Why isn’t there a giant windmill in his yard?
Yes, the urbanites need a good economic downturn to wake them up. Whoregan will solve the housing “crisis “, the rental “crisis”, the opiate “crisis”, and any other thing the media deems a “crisis”. Why, he’s next to Gawd and Obama on the saint scale.
Wangcouver voters don’t care, those rural yokels can go on welfare as far they are concerned. Cutting down trees, digging up rocks and sucking ooze from the ground is just icky and nasty.
Tell me about it. I was a grad student at UBC and I constantly encountered that mentality. That was one reason I left after a year.
Us cheeps are purdy lucky dat Cheep Weenuk keep sending us duh graby!
Re: D Dan Small minded socialists. You nailed it. I am glad I never stopped drinking.
People do not understand freedom.
The economy will falter under those dimbulbs, clearly. What is unclear is how long they will get to dismantle a once bustling economy. All it will take is one vote where the Greentards are not happy. In between now and then, a lot of damage can be done.
Urbanites buy the Green BS, thinking that windmills and solar panels will save us all, despite the failures of these systems everywhere, Morontariowe is the prime example of green largesse and distress. “It wont happen this time!”
Just watch the corporate investment escape here, fast, and it wont be to Alberta, as in the past.
And it will be the young that will pay, again for the failed exploits of the Dippers.
Christy has to go too, by the way. Bring on the Falconator!
I just don’t see how this has anything to do with the NDP.
You b@stard. You read my book! That’s ok, really , so long as you remain a nice, domesticated conservative, who refuses to use our own rules to fight and defeat us.
Really? Well, let me help you…..political instability and taxation issues all factor into “economic” decisions. Odd that LNG plants are being built elsewhere with the same “economics”….minus the political uncertainty.
Re: BC gas and oil projects.
There’s a great documentary that I’ve watched on how oil and gas companies deal with governments who throw wrenches into the gears of oil development. . Do keep in mind that theoretically, the present government has a one seat majority.
And Petronas has a lot of cash.
https://youtu.be/gOs8Cbo_KYk
Why not cancel Site C and build gas fired generators? Why must the B.C. economy depend on exports of resources in exchange for endless waves of exploitative foreigners and their money? What’s the point of being Canadian if everything is for sale and your children can’t afford a normal Christian life?
Good thinking!!I do however believe that the day Notley and her crew are ousted, the oil companies will start filling the gaps.
Was the Bennett dam a mistake? Think 50 years and counting, of cheap, dependable ELECTRIC power.
Oh yeah, GREEN TOO! One would think that sanctimonious boorish Weaver could figure that out. BTW he hates gas too. And, if Site C generates extra power, Alberta for one will buy it. They’re turning off their coal generation with little to replace it. Then there’s the Muricans who have grown allergic to nucular and coal. They will be more than willing to buy our CLEAN power.
Economics 101, something the ENDPee is still in kindergarten, relatively
Was the Bennett dam a mistake?
I don’t think so. My father made a lot of money by doing work for some of the companies associated with its construction. The Bennett Dam helped pay for a lot of my undergrad education!
By the way, I was on hand when the first 3 generators were commissioned. Our scout troop got to watch the proceedings with a better view than the general public because our scoutmaster worked for B. C. Hydro.
Nothing wrong with dams. But why build more dams when we have other means available that could be cheaper. Please understand that I’m not presuming gas generators are more efficient than dams. Maybe dams are a good idea. I just don’t know the data. Another thing…. why on earth should energy rich Alberta be buying power from BC? None of this makes any sense.
Only in Canada, could we get in the way of LNG in a deep, coldwater port thousands of miles closer to the consumers of LNG.
Customers are now taking shipments of US LNG from the US Gulf Coast. For decades boats have left the Persian gulf and headed to Korea and Japan, its mind boggling that Canada couldn’t get this done.
Unlike the US most of Canada’s energy outside the oilsands is natural gas and we (the owners of the gas) are getting very low prices for our gas because its so far away from those who need it.
These resources are assests of the citizens and when we leave them in the ground we should be recognizing the writedown. As you be dam sure those who lend us money sure as hell notice
Your right, the ENDPee doesnt make any sense.
If it were up to me, Natgas would be used, essentially for home heating and commercial usage. Don’t burn it for electric. And yes, Hydro is the most dependable energy we have, bar none
I think nuclear would be far more dependable. I live in the Peace and while most around here are for the dam because money for toys and crap, I see a huge cost in flooding that valley. Why are we destroying our land just so the Chinese can get rich? And don’t fool yourself, the Conservatives are just as bizarre as the dippers.
Oh geepers better keep those money lenders happy… better bring in more foriegners to keep this baby boomer economy going… better sell everything we possibly cam. ..