A pathetically poor attempt to deflect blame from useless Canadian politicians and agencies has arisen from the typical NDP/Liberal defenders. They are (unbelievably) claiming that it is not politics, but economics which might kill Energy East.
What a joke.
You know the premise is suspect when Mr. Peak Pipelines pipes in.
http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/report-questions-the-need-to-build-new-pipelines-from-the-oilsands
Time to start breeding rabbits I guess. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41265474
Let’s be clear here. It is poltics that made energy east ‘viable’. If keystone had been approved as well as the lines to tide water pacific then energy east would never have made to the drawing board.
By scuttling Energy East, three objectives are met.
1. A project which was initiated while Stephen Harper was in office, and therefore bad for the country, will be terminated. Governments spend a lot of time dismantling what previous administrations have built or otherwise put into place.
2. Energy East is a pipeline. Pipelines are bad because of “climate change” and all that rubbish. Save Gaia by shutting this project down.
3. Most important, it denies revenue, jobs, and, worse, a degree of independence to western Canada, Alberta in particular. For much of the last 50 years, Ottawa has treated the part of the country west of Ontario as renegade and rebel territory. Cancelling Energy East is meant to return that region to its traditional servile status, beholden solely to the interests of southern Ontario and southern Quebec.
This is the Slippery Slope of Vote-Buying Politics by the Trudeauce/Butts Liberal Administration. e.g. Venezuela
Afraid of offending the Rockefeller Oil Connections and thereby endangering Justin’s opportunity to Float increased Socialism thinking as United Nations Secretary General.
Canada’s best interests? Screw them especially The West.
Your #3 is the Canadian reality in a nut shell. I would extend the 50 years to 150 to coincide with a anniversary being celebrated this year.
The strong CDN$ during $100 oil was a convenient excuse for the demise of the largest boondoggle in Canadian history, Auto Pact and the industrialization of Ontario & Quebec. The failure of this scheme is never addressed as a national issue. Trillions $’s. To supplement this theft Equalization was layered on.
Reform was created to address these issues or at a minimum debate them. The CPC under Harper failed on a massive level to accomplish this. Foreign investment in the energy industry has left and yet that does not even drive any serious concern in the West. Albertans who were considered the most rabid of free enterprisers have roled over and now hold their hands out with Dipper surrogates leading the charge.
All of this likely works until the day Ottawa implodes from debt. When that day comes I highly expect the West will galvanize behind any politico who wants to challenge the status quo. It likely leads to separation.
Its possible I’m too cynical, but could the Saudi purchase of $14 billion in LAVs from an Ontario manufacturer (vote rich Ontario) be part of the explanation? At 300,000 barrels/day that would be about $15million/day,or, less than 1,000 days of imports to allow the Saudis to finance the deal
Again, what do you think that the paper pushers in the regime would do otherwise?
It would be interesting is some of the “journalists” added up all the money that the private enterprise, the regime bureaucrats and all the other hungers on, spent until this day without a shred of productive outcome.
Of course the “journalists” are part of the money making scam. Then again they would not know where to look.
Everyone’s forgetting that this pipeline had to cross Quebec, and Quebec was absolutely hell-bent on stopping it. They were opposing it full-bore, every politician was against it, every lobby group against it, every environmental group, yada yada. And did anyone, anywhere, ever expect this nitwit Quebec-born PM to cross Quebec on this issue? Hell, no. Just rig the NEB process in such a way to create the conditions for the company to withdraw, and then Shiny Pony can put on his best sad face and lament this outcome, while of course the Liberal bagmen in Quebec reap their profits from killing the project.
Quebec’s stupidity knows no bounds. They have a town blown to hell by a rail car carrying oil and they’re still dead-set against oil pipelines. Should make ’em all drive Teslas…
The need for a pipeline to the east may not be as important in the coming years (Google: Bitumen Balls) A pipeline to the east makes Alberta more dependent upon the east, not less. The introduction of technology like Bitumen Balls is truly a game changer. This accidental discovery (odd how so many tremendous inventions in history were discovered this way) will allow Bitumen to be easily, safely and economically transportable without being restricted to a pipeline running across hostile territory.
If I was a typical eastern politician (read liarberal) I would be getting very nervous as this technology raises the specter of Alberta (and to a lesser extent Saskatchewan) being able to progress without cow-towing to the laurentian elite. It also feeds my dream of an independent Alberta
Energy East will never be cancelled.
Energy East will never be approved.
The Ring of Fire will never be cancelled.
The Ring of Fire will never be mined.
These things are all true.
Bitumen balls are touted by the researcher who discovered them as being a game changer – a method to more safely transport raw bitumen.
The problem, however, is that bitumen is already transported by rail and nobody cares that it isn’t perfectly safe. Why would industry invest extra money into making a product more safe when it is already deemed safe enough to transport?
Canada has essentially reached economic stasis. Green theocracy is putting the lid on almost all industrial growth where we have a competitive advantage. They are however more than happy to subsidize those favoured enterprises where we are clearly not competitive. The war on prosperity is progressing quite well. Politicians, hysteria pimping NGOs, and brain-dead electorates are good at that. I predict that no new major pipeline will be built in Canada for at least a decade. The progressive elite believe that no new pipeline will ever be built as we are now in “decarbonization” mode. Just buy that Tesla and plug it in. Life really is that simple when you’ve never had to experience the real world.
Most of you are missing the real point here. This is indeed purely about politics. The next federal election is coming up in two years. Little Potato Chip and crew won the last election because of massive desertion from the Dippers, particularly in Quebec and BC.
So, our governing gang of fools needs to shore up political support from the green slime to ensure a second term. They don’t much care about Alberta, Sask and the rest of the West, because mostly they don’t vote Liberal anyway. What they need is to lock up the downtown young, big city voters. And generally they are all against big energy projects, particularly things like pipelines.
Agreed. I thing where the real advantage is will be in the ability to transport it in hopper cars that can carry more and are easier to load and unload. Plus, this removes the need for diluent
It’s not even about politics. This is about ownership. Having the right to develop and produce. Scuttling Energy East, Northern Gateway, Trans Mountain et al is just a way to put a lock on the door to a home that used to be open for business. This is what Communists do. Next they’ll show up at homes to seize potted plants and tell farmers they can’t sell to whom they please…oh wait.
ok, that makes sense 😉
This. Terrence Corcoran has also written about this and came to the pretty clear conclusion that EE only made political sense. With Keystone getting greenlight, it’s a non-issue.
And you definitely want to look up ‘Bitumen Balls’. A big deal.