27 Replies to “Death By Papercut”

  1. many of the comments on twitter said it all. man we have become one screwed up society. at least the NEB gave it’s stamp of approval on the westward pipeline, of course that does not mean it won’t take twenty years, or a catastrophic reduction in the energy available to keep billions of people alive and prevent them from rising up and destroying their governments, and those who have been suppressing them with their so called “green” policies.

  3. Too many cooks spoil the broth. No one is going to read all of that, nor is it going to be consistent throughout in its conclusions, or recommendations. So why bother except as a political feel good exercise or virtue signaling? Someone at the end of the day will end up offended and block the process because the clause on page 9,863 was ignored in application.

  4. Looks to me like there’s a small rain forest’s worth of dead trees in those boxes.

  5. A picture is worth a thousand words and in this case not one of them good about the burden of government. Probably had to be in both official languages. Lots and lots and lots of wasted man hours there that could have been used to actually generate wealth instead of destroying it through bureaucratic paper pushing.

  6. To have any accountability and compliance to the entirety of this document will be impossible. To digest and understand it would take a very long time.
    “Paralysis by analysis” is the only thing I see in that photo.

  8. Way back in high school I ventured into a thick book “The Trouble with Russia”…it described government bureaucracy,and the red tape. We are there.
    Sid Vicious nailed it…
    As for the flour mill….I know where to visit next time I visit the London area. What a beautiful historic site!

  9. The entire application as it should be done (plus maps as required):
    1. We know how to build safe pipelines, and have done so for more than a century.
    2. The incentives overwhelmingly lead us to having a safe, reliable and durable pipeline, especially considering the litigious environment we live in.
    3. We promise to return the areas affected as they were within reason. Sue us if we don’t.

  10. Reagrding the Arva Flour Mill story in the releated link, Orwell called it: Who controls the past controls the future.
    I expect the current government to shutter all sorts of historic sites and museums in an attempt to erase pre-multicultural history.

  11. the picture is decieving. Only twelve boxes of originals. The rest are copies.
    38000 pages for a very long pipeline doesn’t seem that bad really. The unfortunate part is that the law probably requires printed copies rather than just a digital version.

  12. “…federal inspectors have declared its innards a safety hazard.”
    Nice little life you got here. Shame something should happen to it.

  13. And to make things worse (if you can imagine) it was submitted in English only and the “Commissioner for Official Languages” is demanding that the entire thing be also provided in FRENCH! Ain’t government great?
    As for them being “copies”, Gord Tulk, the NEB requires those copies….so the picture is not the least bit deceiving. Oh….and that is only the initial filing…the paper chase ain’t over yet by a long shot.

  14. Reminds me of Hillery’s emails.
    Gord Tulk; you are right, it would have been easier if digital copies were sent. Yet, as mentioned earlier, Just-in tRUDEau (thanks whoever pointed out the spelling – going to use it from now on) under the LIEberal government probably demanded a paper copy. Looks like triplicate copies … would give Just-in lots of reading until the end of the year … before the LIEberals reject project. I call it the “Unity” Pipeline, because if it fails, then I fear that Western Canada might go the separation route.
    All the oil industry has to do is connect a pipeline to the existing one … therefore only the “new portion” needs to be approved – from where it presently stops. After all, the oil just has to be reversed, and existing pipeline is already approved – and no breaks yet.
    (The pipeline to Montreal is about 65 years old, and Quebec loves foreign oil, and they do not have a problem with that pipeline. Yet, that is common sense – something that Just-in tRUDEau [love that spelling] and LIEberals do not understand because it is too simple of a solution.)
    =-=-=-=-=-=
    Woodporter: May 20, 2016 8:47 AM — I love your simple three points, that is common sense. Too simple of a solution for Just-in to understand.

  15. And my vintage Porsche lacks cup-holders … an obvious safety hazard in our Starbuck society. I can’t wait for some pointy headed bureaucrat to issue “non-operating” status for fear of a scalding coffee spill.

  16. If his last name was Mohammed or Ahluwahlia, they’d give him a six part cover story for keeping Canada’s history intact.

  18. Energy East is a Canadian deal breaker if it fails IMHO. TransMountain got the NEP approval yesterday and waits for Federal Cabinet approval. Either of these projects would ease the monopoly that the Americans have on Canadian crude pricing. It is a national security issue like no other.
    The ability to invest capital in world class investments does not exist outside of the energy field in Canada. Sorry but the industrialization of central Canada has turned into a significant failure after decades of 100’s of Billions of $’s invested. Energy in Western Canada has invested comparable $’s NOT using taxpayer money. The energy industry has transferred billion’s of $’s to eastern Canada through taxation and equalization payments. Shutting this industry down thru ignorance will restart a serious separation movement.
    I have confidence in the petroleum industry but will not risk investing in Canada until some indication is made that the current rulers have their sh*t together. In the mean time I will own shares in Exxon and Shell.

  19. Anyone who is opposed to Canada’s most viable economic sector (petroleum) or anyone who thinks that the current effective stasis of infrastructure development (the disgrace of the process above) is not beyond reason deserves to suffer a slow and painful death of disease and or starvation in the stone-age existence that they invoke. On this planet one can conquer nature or conquer people who conquer nature in order to survive. No other options exist. The people conquerors have been in charge for quite a while now. Eventually Atlas will shrug.

  20. what’s perhaps most troubling by this is that they would have hired a PR flack to do such releases.

  22. Aha, proof of more “unbridled” capitalism running amok — brought to you by big paper!

  23. Maybe they could feed it into their biomass plant to generate power for a day or 2.

  24. Yeah, but the 38k pages appear to be just the original. Looks like it has at least 4 copies that were submitted with it.

  25. Yes 38000.pages would be the original.
    I once submitted an application for a critical sour well to the eub. Left in fir a month to let them digest it. Pestered them for another 2 till I demanded a meeting. Got over there and met with “staff” many of which could not speak English. From the questions asked it was pretty evident the book . Maps. Etc.had not been cracked
    Every question answered by see page 412.32.etc.

  26. Yup, been there, done that, though with not so many pages. If you are a “good-guy” they ask a couple questions and never read the paperwork. If you are one of the “evil destroyers of the environment” they’ll nit-pick you to death, no matter how sound your data is.

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