In the past, I’ve written that I wished I owned all the oil companies in the world, because I’d call a news conference to announce my retirement. They’ve started to take my advice.
In the past, I’ve written that I wished I owned all the oil companies in the world, because I’d call a news conference to announce my retirement. They’ve started to take my advice.
Not to worry Kate! I keep reading that the unemployment rate is the lowest since 1974. BTW. I hear there’s a sale on seaside property in Wolseley.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/business/2018/12/7/1_4208762.html
Yes, how does unemployment get calculated? Perhaps it’s the building boom. Here in the Okanagan we have another construction boom like we had in 2004-2010, so unemployment rates look good, but the devil is in how the statistics are managed. For instance,what constitutes a “full time job”? I know many people who work in the service industry and all they can get is a 20 hour work week, so they have to work two jobs, does that count as two full time jobs?
Our media, the finest media money can buy, is determinedly painting a rosy picture of the economy as they know the CPC traditionally campaigns on fiscal responsibility, thus taking away one of Scheer’s main weapons against Trudeau.
I am very suspicious of the stats that show such low unemployment rates, especially living in a town where the thousand or more oil field workers are no longer employed in that industry.
Meanwhile in the land of spineless Scheer the Conservative party just sent out an e-mail saying Tis the season of giving, give us money.
I’ve told them (supporter services) so many times on the phone NO and Scheer is a loser, quit calling, I’m not voting for you quit calling and clicked unsubscribe. They just don’t get it.
You just don’t get it. Scheer is the only hope of defeating Trudeau in 2019. Will the growing rumblings of Western separation, this next election is really a referendum on confederation. If Trudeau wins, Canada as a nation is finished.
My guess is along this line as well Juan.
Everything going as Butts/JTurd planned, a little slow maybe but the plan to “faze out” Alberta energy is going just as they planned. Time to end crazy Peeairs experiment, the country is broken.
Juan Galt – Sean M. Agree with both your statements.
I like Max and his policies – but he has no hope of winning anything except for a few seats. Scheer is the only possible candidate to vote for… i’m aware of his past Fk ups on Dairy and seeming sheepishness. However If that Globalist POS in the PMO manages to once again form a Government..?? this Country will in fact Break up….sure as shit with Alberta Leading the charge.
As one who lived and survived through his (_i_)hole fathers’ Wage/Price Controls & NEP In Alberta & derailed my career for 6 years and then having this 2 bit Fk of a Spawn come out to DESTROY the rest..?? is a bit much to swallow.
This next year is going to be VERY interesting to say the least. Separation Sentiment is very strong in Alberta at this time and I dont think that even the election of the UCP with a huge majority will quell that anytime soon.
Scheer’s slogan should be “You’re pretty much voting for a Librano” He can eff off and so can the CINO party. Right now I’m feeling very Lactose intolerant for Mr Dairy Cartel.
The UPC under Bilderberg Kenney isn’t going to change a damn thing in Alberta either.
Travis, are you proposing any alternatives to Turdeau and Nutley?
You might not have had a choice, Kate. Pension funds are increasingly insisting that energy companies get out of oil and into unicorn farts on pain of having their credit lines cut off. The fund managers have started believing their own climate change bullshit, and think they won’t be able to pay out as agreed to the few parasites who still get a pension on the day cities start sinking beneath the waves.
The correct thing to do in an ideal world would be to tell those covered by the California Public Employees Retirement System (among others) to go ask their cats for support in their old age, because nobody in the real world gets a pension any more.
I will take 100 to one odds that if the energy sector goes down all the pensions will as well. Try eating dust folks, it was all there was in the dirty thirties.
I reviewed the Alberta Teacher’s Pension Plan a few years back. Loaded with oil and gas companies and related pipelines, banks, what have you. What else makes money in this country, Government bonds? Hardly! Why is the CPP headed to Hong Kong, London UK to “operate” their little portion of freedom from “Peter pays Paul” and Government bonds, because that hasn’t changed a whit with all the hikes to CPP premiums over the years an won’t even with the recent changes to CPP.
Our BoC dork knows what “inflation” is and it isn’t under 2% or what ever bench mark he uses to fudge the numbers with. Closer to 6-7% and just like 1980, going higher with a tanking economy and “Loonie”. Go big BoC Dork, ’cause like 1980 it’s gonna be a revisit to 20.5%, with no back up this time with a destroyed resources industry…the only place you create “wealth”.
Don’t believe the hype Tranna is doing well. You don’t make any kind of economy selling houses to each other, or playing games with our largest trading partner trying to sell them stuff made from inferior steel from China! The LPOC has been front and center on dealing with China for decades and burying the inroads that China has made into this country. They sold us out decades ago! I’ll bet that they already own this place.
Read Sidewinder.
On pensions again, I’m surprised that public sector pension plan managers haven’t strung the little turds up, or any of the other dreamers in the LPOC, for pushing the wreckage that “Glow Bull warming” is, yet. Bankers, too. There is no way they’ll fund their public sector pension liabilities and they damned well know it!
I predict that Shell will pull out of it’s $40 billion LNG project in BC.
a) Turdeau’s stance on the project will change if the Liberals are re-elected.
or b) the greenies win a suit in Federal Court saying the project did not have NEB approval. One of the their arguments being the BC natural gas network is tied into Alberta, so not just BC gas could be exported, thus NEB approval is required.
Meanwhile BC continues to export coal to China. BC coal is clean, its green, its eco-coal!
the greenies win a suit in Federal Court saying the project did not have NEB approval
Don’t forget inadequate “consultation” with indigenous groups, gender imbalance, disturbing the breeding grounds for the giant purple snorklewacker, blah blah blah.
Normally you’ld Be right on, but I think in this case Shell has done a good job of covering those bases.
Were the first nations ever consulted about the coal exports? Someone should plant a bug in their ear about that one for sure. Huge potential for payola.
Joe – not electricity making coal (though there’s some of that), coking coal. If you want steel, or pig iron, you need coke. The rusted iron that is the source of most iron deposits needs to be chemically converted (REDOX reactions for the chemically inclined) to convert valence state to be iron metal (or carbon infused iron metal, otherwise known as steel).
If you want bridges, buildings, and machines to make our lives easier then you need steel. You want more steel, you need coke. Arc furnace re-processing can “provide” at a similar cost, but can only re-process existing steel or iron. If you want the world economy to grow, you need coking coal.
https://www.capebretonpost.com/business/bc-cities-join-global-movement-asking-oil-companies-for-climate-change-costs-270306/
Writing letters to oil companies is helpful as well.
I’m sure that boards of directors everywhere will be terrified of a deluge of postal protests.
I am waiting for letters BC municipalities to go to both Vancouver and Prince Rupert. 🙂 ha ha
Vancouver exported 36.8 million tonnes of coal in 2016. Prince Rupert over 6.2 million tonnes in 2016. When burned that 43 million tonnes of coal yields 43 x 2.4 = 103 megatonnes CO2.
Time for Vancouver to pay up.
I also note that gasoline and diesel sales in BC are up from 2008 when the Carbon tax was introduced. When burned the 5.2 billion litres of gasoline and 1.9 billion litres of diesel sold in 2017 will produce approx. 17 megatonnes of CO2. Hey BC, wasn’t a carbon tax supposed to cause fuel consumption to go down?
Time for eco BC to pay up! Get YOUR CO2 down!
Related?
“TORONTO, June 21, 2018 /CNW/ – Canada has lost the title of the world’s most reputable country, according to the world’s largest survey of country reputations, with declines in perceptions of the nation’s government, economy and environment.
After six years in first or second place, Canada has fallen to seventh in the Reputation Institute’s annual Country RepTrak® rankings.”
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canada-drops-from-the-top-in-country-reputation-survey-686154851.html
Next up on News At 11, water is wet….
The Liberal Government is proof positive that Canadians are fools.
Yes, Canada passed the majority stupid mark sometime back in the 50s I think. Maybe before that even.
No.. 50s Canada elected Dief with a record-shattering majority. 50s Canada had no Medicare. It was sometime between Dief’s majority and Tommy Douglas that the soul of the country was infected with socialism, and the disease has proven utterly incurable. We’re approaching a terminal phase, but it’s hard to say how long the country’s got left before she starts serious decline and possible breakup. Could even be decades, yet.
And that was at the same time that PUBLIC SERVANTS were given the “right’ to organize….the rest is Revisionist History.
aka Legalized Extortion
I do not think there is a limit on what Trudeau can accomplish, and how many will continue to support it.
When mortgage rates hit 3000%, expect Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Wascana Centre to continue to vote Liberal in great numbers.
I think Canada will have to start printing $1000 bills again. This year. I say that because when things hit the fan, it goes so quickly that no one ever sees it coming. I think Trudeau is capable of collapsing the economy so quickly, that he can have us in hyperinflation before Christmas. I have faith.
Exxon’s been rumored to be leaving Canada for a long time – I remember hearing rumblings years and years ago. Exxon/Imperial is one of those companies that when they start laying off people and abandoning projects, then you know it’s one minute to midnight. Turn out the light in Alberta, the party’s over….
It is time, however unfortunate, that the enterprises don’t put up with the environ-mentalist nonsense. That clique is there solely to stop any developments what so ever and the idiots in the government of Canada are fully supportive of the said nonsense.
It remains to be seen if the idiots in charge just chalk it up to the collateral damage or will get some sense to their heads and start dealing with real world free of wishful thinking.
Don’t blame the head idiot, he knows not what he is doing.
Just point out, to every person, every hour of every day, that he is utterly, completely incapable of his own rational thought.
I’ve never understood some of the disconnect people have in BC between policy and the results. For example, gas prices in BC are the highest on the continent. A lot of that is taxes but one of the biggest reasons is we have basically two refineries in Vancouver and a couple in Washington state and there’s no way in hell anymore could even be considered. Every single time prices spike because of a refinery shutdown for maintenance or whatever there is not a single lugenpresse talking head wondering why we have so few refineries when clearly we could use a few more easily.
Super! So EXXON pulls their filthy, dirty, fossil fuels out of BC! Now windmills, rainbows, fireflies, and sunshine will replace all that dirty energy! Yeayyyy !
See ya, Canadians!!
Soon, we will need a Trumpian wall on our Northern Border. With a big, beautiful door of course
And the chainsaws they use for logging will be battery powered, or have really long extension cords.