21 Replies to “Pollspotting!”

  2. How could the answer be yes for anyone in Saskatchewan except a political hack? Spawn has got a national unity crisis on his hands, defiance of the constitutional division of powers, defiance of federal law, two provinces (both Dip provinces at that) about to declare war on each other, and he’s flitting off to an Americas conference in Peru?

  4. “Is the federal government doing enough”?
    Is the federal government doing anything?

  5. Justin Trudeau is not only incompetent. He and his minions are DANGEROUS to the economic and constitutional stability of Canada

    1. Exactly…but wouldn’t it be just like the MSM to turn this into a ‘Trudeau saves the day’ story?
      I wouldn’t put it past Butts to orchestrate this.

      1. “Exactly…but wouldn’t it be just like the MSM to turn this into a ‘Trudeau saves the day’ story?
        I wouldn’t put it past Butts to orchestrate this.”

        If our Dear Leader actually came out from his meeting this weekend with the premiers of Alberta and BC and announced the pipeline was going ahead, then I’d let him have his “Trudeau saves the day” glory.

        Anything else is still failure no matter what anybody tries to orchestrate..

  6. I suspect Whoregan is gonna tell bongo to pound sand. We already know red’s position.
    All 3 of these morons are facing imminent elections. Because of incompetence this has become the issue. It’s a no win for all of them. Perfect storm. Ha

  8. I can inconveniently drive down to southern BC & park my butt on a railway track, with a sign: “stop mining dirty coal & shipping to the world”. Think ol’ Horgan wouldn’t arrest me for doing so? For interfering with normal trade by a non-resident?

    There have been three or four articles this week on COAL, THE BIGGEST COMMODITY SHIPPED FROM PORT OF VANCOUVER & BC!!! The BC government makes money from mining COAL & shipping it across BC countryside. Dirty coal, coal that Notley is shutting down in Alberta to meet her green creds & “social license” to ship friggin’ oil, of any kind out the other end of any pipeline to ready markets, other than the USA. Killing Alberta jobs & coal towns to do so.

    All of 38 million tonnes of it in 2017, with coal from Montana added to the pile. Montana coal is shipped out from Vancouver, because the greenies in the USA have spiked coal shipping from the USA. At least from Montana.

    Horgan & Weaver are hypocrites of the first order. They make money mining & shipping COAL. Big money. They couldn’t sell enough pot to replace what they make from it. Or cigarettes or booze. Coal money is buying up RE in the Lower Mainland. Chinese COAL money, COAL derived power, making Chinese junk to sell at Walmart, where BC shops. Chinese steel to build condos, infrastructure, anywhere cement is used & rebar is needed in BC.

    Alberta slices it’s coal fired power plant’s throats & it’s coal mining industry & towns, to get any pipeline built to the west coast & these sanctimonious sh%theads in BC have the balls to shut down any pipeline originating in this province? There are no restrictions on COAL mined in BC for their upstream or downstream emissions. None.

    No pipelines, no rail traffic, no carbon taxes. No deal on Sunday & it’s time to rip up tracks. Just on COAL alone. I’m sure we’ll be endorsed for doing so by Mr Horgan & Weaver. Reducing CO2 to Save The Planet, right?

    1. Do you know the difference between metallurgical coal (needed to convert natural rust deposits into iron and steel) and thermal coal, used to generate electricity? I suspect that most of the protesters don’t. Electric arc furnaces (powered by wind and solar, no doubt) can be used to reform existing iron and steel, but can’t do the iron form change that’s needed to go from rust to steel. (How to explain…. Changing valances? REDOX reactions? I’m trying not to get technical.) Without steel, our civilization collapses.

      Ending western civilization is an ultimate end for the Greens, but they don’t want to be that blatant about it.

  9. Poll question:
    Is the government of Canada capable of doing anything competently?
    No.
    Hell no.
    Are you high?

  11. I live in BC but would encourage Alberta to start shutting down access of BC goods to the rest of Canada. Sad to say but that is the most direct way to bring this issue to a head. $1.75/litre gas in Vancouver will do wonders.

    Build a BC Refinery: Most people commenting on such a suggestion have no idea what they are talking about. I worked for Shell for 25 years and watched about 5 refineries shut down on the West coast. A major refinery processes 500,000 boe/day. The little Sturgeon refinery in Edmonton runs 50,000 boe/day and cost + $20 billion(?). There has not been a world class refinery built in the USA in 30 years.

    The TransMountain pipeline will move 850,000 boe/day. Three big issues with shipping refined product overseas.
    (1) National security: Countries will not contract their refined energy needs by replacing their own production to a foreign producer if avoidable. (2) The world has a refining surplus. Are countries with existing refining capacity going to mothball their plants to import Canadian refined product? I think not. (3) Cost: The cost to build a refinery capable of processing 850,000 boe/day would be astronomical. I could not put a # on it other than +$100 billion. It is not economical and I highly doubt private enterprise would take it on. Malaysia processes bitumen at $0.005 per bbl. A conservative cost projection based on existing heavy oil refineries in Alberta would be + 0.02 per bbl.

    Just imagine the foot print such a refinery would make on BC’s west coast. The Dippers and Greenies smiling at their new toy after 10 years of construction. Irony aside the political self interest of these people should have the hair standing on all BC’ers necks!

  12. Facts don’t matter to the radical environutter, at least economic facts.
    WHALES!
    BITUMEN!
    TANKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSS!
    TRANSITION!
    HEY HO HEY HO!
    It will take $2 per litre, or more to snap Wangcouver to attention, and even then, it might take even higher prices to do the trick, yet still, the environutters would applaud those prices!
    It might affect the weekend armchair warriors with their SUVs though, poor darlings. One thing they are good at is SLOGANEERING.
    For those that don’t know, the Min of Environment, George Heyman, was past president of the Sierra Club, and the BCGEU. He’s one of the prime sources of trouble behind Horgan, as he is now accused of holding meetings with the opponents leaders, disclosing information to aid in their protests. These people are disgusting

    1. You prompt a thought.
      These people once elected swear an oath of office.
      If we held them to that oath, they are guilty of treason.
      As activists they were free to be as devious as necessary to further their cause.
      As representatives of the citizen, they are not.
      I doubt they understand this distinction.
      Off with their heads.

    2. Nope. Shut down Trans Mountain, including the spur line to the Seattle area, right at the Alberta/BC border. Oops! It’s one of their only sources of oil for their refineries, so now US consumers & the US military in the area are affected, despite some of that crude used to make product shipped by barge to….Vancouver. A smallish amount compared to what is used by the locals in & around Seattle.
      How’s that NAFTA deal going? I think there are a few clauses in NAFTA that talk about petroleum products originating in Canada & shipped to the US. Good, Trump gets involved in our little tit for tat inter-provincial trade war & settles it for us, once & for all. Smiles all ’round, kum-bai-yah.

      Or else.

    3. One of my favourite pictures taken in Queen Charlotte City was of the “no tankers off out coasts!” with the fishing fleet fuel bunkers in the background. While talking tanker traffic with one of the locals I asked if they knew how much seepage there was into Hecate Straight from the offshore oil there. “It doesn’t matter, that’s all natural.”

      Yet they have no trouble supporting a diesel based fishing and recreational fleet.

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