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  3. Venezuela health care:
    “This (past) weekend, a series of photographs showing women in labor inside the waiting room of Barquisimeto’s Pastor Oropeza Hospital, run by the government, under the banner of the Venezuelan Social Security Institute or IVSS, went viral at home and abroad.”
    The federal gov’t found out about the photos being spread, and blamed the state’s Governor… then when the controversy didn’t go away, sent the federal intelligence police to investigate, and arrest the photographer.
    Sound familiar? Remember Quebec’s response to Macleans magazine naming Quebec as the most corrupt… they didn’t search out the corruption, they blamed the messenger.
    https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/10/05/snapshot-of-a-crisis/
    Photos of women giving birth on waiting room benches. uff.

  4. Energy East isn’t the only project that, although it had official approval, was subject to additional reviews and protests.
    Take a look at what’s been happening with the Thirty Metre Telescope project on Mauna Kea. It’s a similar situation, complete with approvals needing to be reviewed as well as protesters objecting to the construction.

  6. I see a certain similarity in the cancellation of the projects, however I do believe that the Energy East Project would have had a more extensive and positive effect on our economy than a stellar scope that can be constructed in a thousand different places.
    Trudeau one and two have displayed a hatred of Western Canada that goes back to the days when Peter Lougheed and Pierre Trudeau locked horns, and Lougheed won. It was great embarrassment for P.E. Trudeau, especially given the fact that his family had amassed a fortune from a chain of filling stations that they owned in Quebec. While they blame markets and pipeline companies for the decision, that doesn’t seem to affect the free flowing crude from Saudi Arabia into Quebec and Ontario that Western Canada can’t compete against without a pipeline.
    In the 70’s, we on the prairies displayed bumper stickers that read: ”LET THE EASTERN
    BA$*AR&S FREEZE IN THE DARK. Tonight, I’m praying for that to happen.

  8. Actually, an alternate site for the TMT is now under consideration as it doesn’t look likely that it’ll be built on Mauna Kea. It could be located in the Canary Islands, though the observing conditions there won’t be as good as those in Hawaii.
    Still, it’ll provide a place for observing the northern sky, which is better than cancelling the project after all the time and effort that’s gone into it so far.
    I remember the days of when Lougheed and PET butted heads. Quebec, of course, wasn’t happy that it wasn’t going to get its cut, which was one reason the whole situation became so idiotic and dragged on for so long.
    I quite agree about letting the eastern you-know-whats freeze in the dark. Let something block the Strait of Hormuz and that’s exactly what’ll happen as that’s on the route that most of the tankers out of the Middle East take.
    But, of course, allowing a pipeline from Alberta would mean that the southern regions of Quebec and Ontario would actually have to acknowledge that western Canada has some importance to them aside simply from being an area that can be bled for cash.
    So, let’s hope for a cold winter down east.

  9. Terence Corcoran: Economic reality killed the Energy East pipe dream — and that’s good
    “It was a specious play for support as a national economic champion, the Bombardier of energy, layered on top of the original global energy superpower dream”
    “When oil traded at $120 a barrel, the economics of Energy East may have added up. But by the time TransCanada got around to announcing the pipeline in October, 2014, the price of oil was already streaming down through $85 and heading for $40. A feasibility study by IHS in 2015 estimated that the cost of piping oil from Alberta to New Brunswick/Quebec to be $16 per barrel. Exports to India or wherever could add another $2 to $4. Pretty soon half the $40 market price would be consumed by shipping costs.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-economic-reality-killed-the-energy-east-pipe-dream-and-thats-good

  11. you ain’t seen nothin until you see the rolling pipeline that crosses Ontario and Quebec daily. thousands of tanker cars full of oil moving from east to west. it is a joke as far as I can see. maybe some brilliant economist or politician can tell me just how a pipeline would be more polluting than tens of thousands of tank cars full of crude. who benefits from moving the oil by rail, who? I don’t mean we plebes, I mean who in the power elite is benefiting?

  13. I got another telephone poll about the Calgary mayoral election last night. Fortis Alberta, I think the name was. This is the fourth time I’ve been called.
    1) Who are you most likely to vote for? I pushed the button for Smith.
    2) How likely are you to change your vote? I pushed the button for “Not at all likely”
    3) Which of the following is most likely to make you change your vote? 5 “reasons” that were all smears followed. No options other than 1-5 could get me past this question. No option to talk to a human. It was a robo-smear.
    I was lukewarm in my support for Smith before, but now I’m POed at Nenshi and really want him out. What a low-life!
    captcha “Provincia Monari” – belongs with the “Energy East is cancelled” thread IMO.

  14. If you used the logic of Terence Corcoran and others, namely that a pipeline that is economic at $120 oil and is no longer economic at $40 oil, the oil industry would never build any infrastructure.
    Pipelines (and refineries etc) are based on 50+ years of economics, not 4-5 years of rapidly changing oil prices.
    Make a case why oil will never exceed $50 a barrel ever again and you may have a point.
    Whatever the reason for cancelling the Energy East Pipeline, there is an enormous amount of future investment that has been (and is being) pulled out of Alberta. This is the stuff that doesn’t make an impact for 5-10 years. By the time Notley is gone the next Premier is going to struggle to get this investment back and it will take another 5-10 years before it makes any difference to Alberta’s economy.

  19. Just saw the cover of the Toronto Sun.
    Picture of Dunderhead the Younger accompanied by headline “SUNNY DAZE”.

  22. Embrace Hollywood…
    ————————————–
    One might think that after one of the biggest names in Hollywood — someone who’s made a name for himself working alongside progressive and feminist causes — was shockingly revealed as having covered up decades of sexual abuse, America’s late-night hosts would have a field day.
    Instead, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert came up … dry.
    Contrast this with the treatment these hosts gave Fox News after reports of sexual harassment surfaced. Bill O’Reilly was joyfully raked over the coals show after show.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-after-harvey-weinstein-scandal-late-night-hosts-come-dry

  24. MAGA.
    h/t AGW RIP.
    “The agency contends that the EPA, under former Administrator Gina McCarthy, exceeded its authority to regulate carbon emissions as stipulated by the Clean Air Act.”
    …-
    “Exclusive: EPA Document Proposes to Eliminate Clean Power Plan ‘in Its Entirety’”
    “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to repeal the agency’s Obama-era climate change program, the Clean Power Plan (CPP), “in its entirety,” according to a document obtained by Breitbart News.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/06/exclusive-epa-document-proposes-eliminate-clean-power-plan-entirety/

  25. Indeed … the pitbull has “turned” on its abusive owner. The Left has starved, kicked, and trained its pet to bark, bite, and attack. They thought their pet would ONLY turn its anger and starvation on their owners enemy. Stupid leftists.

  26. there was a thingy on the PBS Frontline(?) t’other nite about kim jong unhinged.
    included the Donald’s ‘fire and brimstone’ clip.
    honest to gawd, it was a reflex impulse, totally spontaneous this, this, internal . . .
    yeeeeeeHAAAAAAAA !!!!!!
    couldnt be helped. it jest ‘appened it did.
    proof of the pudding came later in the documentary explaining how the rocketman’s rhetoric went back to a low simmer and the plans announced to plop one into the ocean off Guam DIDN’T HAPPEN.
    yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!

  27. Oh, I’ll do you one better Jamie.
    NFU-O press release:
    http://mailchi.mp/34a378b75d16/nfu-o-enews-april-28-1656141?e=e3514fec4f
    “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems,” explained Fenton, age 27, who works on an organic grain farm near Kingston, ON.
    This is bolshevik bullshit that translates to:
    “I’m going broke and I need the government to force consumers to buy my pathetic organic crap”

  30. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine say, Moi thinks Moi’s PET’s relative.
    …-
    “United States slaps Bombardier with another 80% anti-dumping duty”
    “Liberals divide country with unflappable Bombardier support, disregard for energy
    TransCanada’s Energy East announcement will only cement the conviction that one Trudeau is the same as another Trudeau”
    http://nationalpost.com/

  33. “Make a case why oil will never exceed $50 a barrel ever again and you may have a point. ”
    Fracking. Also, your post is ridiculous. As long as there is some chance of oil going to $120, EE is justified? That’s dumb.

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