31 Replies to “A Trans Mountain Expansion Project Questionnaire Goes Horribly Wrong”

  2. I have lived too long. A survey should be neutral. This one is slanted and biased toward the enviro-lobby. Somehow, being a First nations/aboriginal member of society will give more credence to the committee than “general public”.
    We are no longer equal in the government’s eyes.
    As mentioned in the survey, the carbon sink of all vegetation 1 km on either side of the Kinder Morgan proposal throughout the route is far greater than the greenhouse gases produced.

  3. Why NOT let OSOYOOS BC FIRST NATIONS CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE … HAVE AT TRANS MOUNTAIN PASSAGE ?
    ………………… JESUS!

  4. In the first box I wrote something like the following (forgot to copy it now I can’t get back to it):
    Transmountain is an important component of Canada’s energy infrastructure. Since it is an expansion it can be installed with little impact on the environment. Pipeline risk mitigation technology available today will help ensure that we can extend TransMoutain’s perfect safety record that goes back to 1956.
    Natural resources directly and indirectly account for almost one-fifth of nominal GDP (about $365B in 2013, or about $1B/day) and 1.8 million jobs in Canada. There are $569B in energy projects planned for next ten years. Valued at $259 billion in 2014, natural resources account for more than half of Canada’s merchandise exports! The US (78%), the UK (5%) and China (4%) are the three main destinations of those exports. The U.S. is the destination of 97% of energy exports! If we exported more energy resources to China, the value would increase by hundreds of millions of dollars if not more because we would have more than one market. If we don’t, the value of our exported resources will continue to shrink.
    Getting the oil to the coast is essential for our kids’ futures and can be done in a manner that respects native land rights and safeguards against oil spills on the west coast. New technologies that don’t use steam to extract oil will help with the carbon footprint concerns. (I should have added, the government’s own report stated that there would be no carbon footprint impacts from Transmountain)

  5. My son was writing a quiz given by the Calgary Board of Education. It noted that gender impacts auto insurance rates. It later asks which of the following can be used to lower your auto insurance rates and “gender” was one of the choices. I asked my friend who is an actuary, “If I am a teenage male and I identify as female can I get lower auto insurance rates?”. He replied simply “No”. I responded “That will change”. It will make his job tougher if 90% of teenage drivers are suddenly female…

  6. On their home page under “NRCan News Products” – every “news” item they list is about throwing money at Quebec.

  7. On their home page under “NRCan News Products” – every “news” item they list is about throwing money at Quebec.

  8. On their home page under “NRCan News Products” – every “news” item they list is about throwing money at Quebec.

  9. “Any assessment originating from an agency that titles itself “Environment and Climate Change Canada” has the presumption of inherent bias, and should be given little credence.”

  10. OKAY,I see a pattern here. They Liberals are using questionnaires to make it seem like Canadians have been consulted. This is an old IPPC trick — invite scientists to comment/ submit, and then just ignore what you do not like. In this case enviros will organized their ranks to spam the questionnaire with anti-pipeline responses. The other problem is, that most people in the general public do not have enough information to make an informed set of responses.

  11. Unfortunately, much of the research on the subject is like shooting from the hip and hoping one hits something. If one happens to find where the bullet has struck, one simply paints concentric target rings around it, thereby claiming that the bull’s eye was hit.
    One rarely ventures into the unknown without knowing first what and where the destination is.

  12. The Liebels have already passed judgement on pipelines and ruled them uneconomic until 2025. The market obviously does not have a role to play on whether economic or not.
    Meanwhile back east the Liebels have fronted more tax dollars to industry in the way of subsidies. A desperate effort to jump start an industrial base that is being priced out of the marketplace by high energy cost and bad governance.
    Apparently the high Cdn petro dollar was not the reason that Ontario has sunk into a have not status. I can only hope that AB, SASK and MAN move forward towards oil export through Churchill and the Hudson Bay. A billion$ nuclear icebreaker would be a small cost to pay. Turdeau steps infront of that and he gets ran over and the West leaves confederation.

  13. Another example of “You must be a Liberal!” if you believe in investing a billion dollars into the aircraft industry in Quebec but don’t believe in building a pipeline to transport the fuel that the planes require to get into the air. Insanity at its finest.

  14. I told that that this project will help Canada and Canadians prosper, not only in the short-term but in the long-term, too.

  15. The Trans Mountain pipeline has operated for 60 years without any serious consequence as has the refinery in Burnaby.
    What do you think those oil tankers are doing moored in Burrard Inlet – they are waiting to load petroleum products from the refinery. 60 years,again without incident.

  16. The Trans Mountain pipeline has operated for 60 years without any serious consequence as has the refinery in Burnaby.
    What do you think those oil tankers are doing moored in Burrard Inlet – they are waiting to load petroleum products from the refinery. 60 years,again without incident.

  18. I just spent the better part of a week in a historic town in the middle of BC where over the tribal office is a large banner that says “ENBRIDGE NOT WELCOME HERE”. Of course the widely spaced housing is dilapidated (missing siding, broken windows, some fire damage evident) even though it is fairly new and as I drove in through the pouring rain I noticed individuals without rain gear of any kind walking rather slowly down the road. During the time I was there I observed the same large group of teenagers for days on end sitting on the park benches in the pouring rain again with no rain gear. I couldn’t help but think “Nowhere to go and all day to get there and nothing to do with all day to do it”. The people may have no future but at least they are safe from that evil Enbridge.

  19. Pretty weak survey.
    As usual the Con of consultancy is obvious.
    We con-sulted the online population and those results that supported us,we saved.
    So 100% of the surviving surveys support our preconceived POV.
    Thank you come again.

  20. Joe
    Welcome to BC, the native part. Ironic, isn’t it? Yeah, the natives are against everything that might generate revenue or jobs for themselves.
    As you have seen, most of them are against work too. They sure seem to enjoy their poverty in the small towns.
    That’s the dysfunctional culture of the reserve at work, That’s why generations of natives never improve themselves. And of course, its whitey’s fault.
    The natives are their own worst enemies. Tell them that, and we are racisssssssss. Ask them what the alternative is, and its “We need our land back, and make all you pay to be here”
    Good luck with that chief. The East Indians and Chinese might also have a bone to pick with you!

  21. Thanks for that link, ST. He nailed it: “The mountain range of debt we are piling on our children.” Can’t get any Canadian politician – Liberal or Conservative – to talk like that.
    LindaL. Absolutely. The script has already been written and approved – they just want some figures and selected comments to put in the “We wish to Thank…” pages.

  22. “The mountain range of debt we are piling on our children.”
    That’s seems to be exactly what they want though.
    I have yet to see a massed protest of twentysomethings holding banners and placards proclaiming:
    NO MORE SOCIAL WELFARE SPENDING!
    NO MORE DEFICIT SPENDING ON ANYTHING!
    WE DON’T NEED ANY GOVERNMENT FUNDING!

  23. “oil export through Churchill and the Hudson Bay”
    And the ice is almost out of Hudson’s Bay. One it is out, it comes back in about 3 months. If the other options are out of the question, the tankers can pick their way through icebergs.

  24. Please fill out this questionnaire — because you KNOW the activists will.

  26. Thanks, that was worth it just so I could fill in the last question on who I was.
    I marked OTHER then typed in “Canadian Citizen”.
    What a f*cked up country the left is creating.

  27. I filled out their questionnaire and commented that the so-called ‘CO2 footprint’ of this project would have absolutely no measurable effect on global CO2 concentration, even if one believed that the CO2 released by human activities caused the climate to change, which as an earth scientist I did not believe it did.

  28. Let them know that CAGW, being non-falsifiable, is a religion and not science. Also pointed out that plants like CO2. Did point out that reduction in some types of CO2 emissions was important such as amounts exhaled by statist politicians and bureaucrats.

  29. I filled it out and said the the reports didn’t mention jobs and the economy. FU libs.

  31. Pretty useless survey.
    For every question with an option to do so, I simply entered:
    Build it!
    — Bad News

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