A tremendously useful article from 2014, by Vivian Krause.
The greatest obstacle to energy infrastructure projects isn’t technical expertise or financial capital; it’s gridlock due to opposition from strong alliances between environmental organizations and First Nations and their ability to attract media attention and stop or stall development. This gridlock has been fomented by the Tar Sands Campaign, a heavily-funded international initiative launched by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Foundation in 2008.
The explicit goals of the Tar Sands Campaign are to stop expansion of the Canadian oil industry, to reduce demand for oil sands crude in the U.S. and to stop or stall pipeline and port construction.
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Let’s face it, this is a war on an independent Alberta. The NEP was the first attempt to put us in our place and forever be subservient serfs to the eastern part of the country. Ultimately, it didn’t succeed. The mistake that PET made was that it was an official government campaign.
Now we have Trudeau War II and the enemy is determined to win. Rather than do it entirely on its own, the Liberals use the Khmer Vert as their mercenaries, taking care to distance themselves from Gang Green, so as to evade responsibility for the consequences. It has absolutely nothing to do with concern about the environment.
This is simply Buttshead’s version of Room 101, the objective being to make Alberta enthusiastic worshipers of his concept of Big Brother.
it ain’t the butthead and the sock puppet, it’s billionaire joos. Steyer and SoreA$$ are 2 more in play. Butt when you mention this fact there are maney in here who are butthurt by that fact, so, we are fighting both sides of the aisle
It has been the same since the milch cow. It hasn’t changed, it never will. The usefull idiots keep Canada going. They are my enemies, just the same as any liberal voter.
I’m sure many SDA readers remember PET’s famous statement about Canada (before it became post-national, sharia-compliant, gender-balanced, and a Soros vassal) being a hewer of wood and drawer of water.
Of course, he didn’t think that the description ever fit real Canada, namely southern Ontario and southern Quebec. He was, however, quite content to have us deplorables out west remain just that, with the added term, “purveyor of free money in the name of equalization”.
“I’m sure many SDA readers remember PET’s famous statement about Canada being a hewer of wood and drawer of water.”
Actually Sir Leonard Tilley said it, back in 1879: “[T]he time has arrived when we are to decide whether we shall be simply hewers of wood and drawers of water…”
And he was quoting from Joshua 9:23 in the King James Bible: “Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
Yup. Like all of turdo la first’s quotes: stolen. But that hasn’t stopped our pathetic press from endlessly regurgitating them as originals.
Furthermore, I’m not so sure being (figuratively) “hewers of wood and drawers of water” is such a bad thing after all.
Indeed, it ought to be a major Canadian advantage: we have an abundance of natural resources most other countries can only dream of. It makes no economic sense at all not to exploit them for our own national benefit and enrichment.
It sure beats mass unemployment, poverty and freezing in the dark. But I doubt it really ever occurs to our Dear Leader and his high school council of a cabinet in Ottawa that there’s any link between national prosperity, tax revenues and expensive social programmes.
Rip up the bridge at Nipigon/Red Rock
Kick out Vancouver
Let the bastards freeze in the dark
Foreign financing, eh?
Man! Wait till Andrew Scheer hears about this!
The I got mine but you can’t have yours crowd is busy trying to destroy what little is left of the Canadian economy.
Let me fix that for you:
“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine crowd”
Water, gas, and sewer access to private houses in Vancouver run in pipelines. Rip them out!
I know I’ve mentioned it before and I concur with the points made about how this appears to be a plan to keep the West as a servant to the laurentian elite world view.
My point is that this “plan” is based on the battle for the KM expansion being drawn out past the next election. It is my belief that when KM established a May 31 deadline it upset the apple cart. The reason it does is that under the plan it gave Juthtin plausible deniability that he tried to stop KM from pulling out. The deadline changed all that as it specifically named the obstruction “political” as the one that needs to be “removed”. They didn’t ask for money or or to have everyone sit down for tea and buns, the demand was basically that Juthtin burn bridges to the greenies and throw them under the bus. This isn’t something they pulled out of thin air either, this is KM way of holding Juthtin to his word that “the pipeline will be built” by imposing on him the necessity of backing up his words with action.
KM like the rest of the decision makers in the world have seen Juthtin for what he is and they are acting accordingly.
Ironic that many – if not all – of the smug, self-righteous, left are so vocally opposed to all things American yet they take their money . . . and ignore the American tanker traffic. Subversion of the country’s will … a fifth column. They should be charged with sedition at the very least.
The issue of foreign money coming into Canada to influence possible export of Canadian energy overseas is simply one example of what is happening regularly. It is incredibly naive of Canadians if they do not realize the scope of foreign money influencing political and business direction is not much greater than the eco movement in Western Canada.
Using third parties and funnelling money into countries to influence outcomes have been happening for centuries. The Russians did not invent the process. It is an extension of foreign policy in an effort to achieve geo-political goals.
Even as this process is exposed, Trans-Mountain, being the latest example, it is incredible that it generates no serious debate in Canada. While Trump is investigated for the 2016 election there is absolutely no concern in Canada that the same forces spent money defeating Harper. Where is the national security concern in this country? Whether conservative or progressive the lack of questioning is IMHO treasonous.
The West is populated with WIMPS & fools….They must separate or be economically destroyed… The SCOC (Supreme Court of Canada) is a construct of UN/EU policies….And the EU wants to hurt/damage North American competition …
Stop complaining and start negotiating with the USA… It may not be that easy because each State only has 2 ea Senators and California & NY would have their Senatorial power diluted….. Start Moving
JMHO
It is clear, that Trudeau and hoegurt are not bound by law. That is how they behave so that is the rational conclusion to draw. Scott Moe, best case is that he feels bound by law.
Therefore, Saskatchewan is at a permanent and insurmountable disadvantage in any dealing with either the federal or BC governments. That is the best case scenario. Notely and Alberta? Well, she’s just on the other side. Alberta’s best case is you’re boned; 100% certainty.
Old rule conservativism; find a way to lose, do it. Don’t show up to riot; we’re better than that. So, Saskatchewan is also boned, 100% certainty. Scheer? Best case old rule conservative.
Canada has a lot to offer, but it all comes from the Earth and well … that’s what they are trying to save for some reason, perhaps for an alien transfer … and I don’t mean refugees, but .. well maybe them too, but they will need money and food too. It’s all so confusing when trying to understand the logic of liberal thinking.
So if the Tides and the Indians and the big lefties have their way … Canada cannot be allowed to offer anything from the Earth anymore.
We do have the market cornered where snow and ice is concerned, but I don’t’ think we can base our economy on it. But that’s about all we will have left if they take away energy. We need a civil war.
Find the political solution – then do the project. Bring Manitoba onside and build multiple pipelines and a road from Fort McMurray to Churchill. Two or 3 milion barrels a day would be a nice capacity. There are few Indian reserves that far north and the rivers aren’t flowing south. Appoint the 10 chiefs most affected to a board to manage a billion dollar equity gift. Any bands further south who want money can whine to the bush Indians for a share and will likely be laughed at. Note that the equity is worthless if the line is not built. A small fleet of hardened tankers to extend the 90 day shipping season might be part of the deal. Expropriate and add the Churchill railway to the deal.
Imagine what an oil shipping route through Hudson’s Bay could do for oil exploration? There’s a potentially huge plays offshore Baffin Island towards Greenland that opens up. Of course enviros and aboriginals would be lining up to lend their support for such endeavors…
Just like they did for the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline more than 40 years ago. Of course, it didn’t help that NEP I destroyed any incentive for oil companies to continue exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea.
The MacKenzie is ice free from June to November. Barges from Slave to the sea. No need to get permission from any other province or territory. A floating pipeline.
No worries. Just our economic legacy and birthright. If Justin says we don’t need it, that’s good enough for me.
That’s the price we must pay to be a Kyoto compliant, Paris apologizing state of Liberal Justin Society.
Sarcastic? You better friggin believe it.
“The staple theory of economic growth is most closely linked with the name of Harold Innis (1894–1952), a University of Toronto economist who argued that current theories failed to explain the economic evolution of countries such as Canada, which has a relative abundance of land and other natural resources. Innis’s staple theory narrative, fleshed out in the 1930s and 1940s, is deeply imbedded in a detailed discourse of Canadian economic history, wherein Canadian economic evolution and development is explained through highly detailed historical analyses of the development of key commodities such as cod, furs, timber, and the transportation infrastructure which allowed for and facilitated the export of such products. The staple theory is now closely linked to export-led theories of economic growth wherein exports determine the growth process irrespective of whether these exports are raw materials or manufactured goods or services.”
Apparently it’s fallen out of favour with statist entitlists who think hard work, maximizing resources & productivity, along with common sense is so yesterday. Remember, yesterday’s moderates and today’s alt hard right liberty fascists.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/staples-and-staple-theory
Heard on the radio today, Moe is joining in on nationalizing the oil industry by instituting a permit system for Saskatchewan oil. Cause ever increasing government regulation has worked out so well up till now…