38 Replies to “Sow The Wind”

  1. One of the remarkable things about this sudden rise in NG prices, is how the LNG projects in BC had their financial backers pull out in the last 2 years. Two projects went down, one still survives.
    Of course NDP and Federal enviro rules cripple all projects.
    There’s an energy crunch coming, much of it due to green policies and lack of investment in the gas patch, during Covid lockdown phases. If you heat solely with gas, the pain hasn’t even started yet.

  2. DanBC,

    Do not forget Joey Biden’s banning of any new leases or permits for fracking on public lands in the US. Most of the land in the US is Federally owned. This especially affects New Mexico.

    Good NEWS. Enbridge Line 3 Replacement will be completed Friday, Tomorrow! Line 3 is from Edmonton to Superior WI on Lake Superior next to Duluth MN.

    Europe’s North Sea existing gas and oil fields are running out. Europe’s Windmills will not reap the whirlwind, because they shut down when the wind blows too hard, and do not produce any power at all if the wind doesn’t blow. Too bad they are all shutting down that reliable carbon-free Nuclear Power.

  3. Re: “Sow the Wind”… if I may blow off topic for a minute…
    Clever thread title Kate!
    Mitchell and Rossetti would be proud of you!

    I take it you read “Who Has Seen the Wind” the novel written by Canadian author W. O. Mitchell, who took the title from a famous poem by Christina Rossetti.

    The book was first published in 1947, and is considered to be Mitchell’s best known work taught in a number of Canadian schools and universities. In it he describes, in detail, the moving blades of grass in a Saskatchewan field! It moved me when I read it.  

    Similarly, in Rossetti’s poem, — wind is symbolic of “power and divinity.”
    https://literarydevices.net/who-has-seen-the-wind/

    Thanks! This brought back memories.

      1. You are going to make me cry with that, Kenji, and Kate will banish us for being (sort of) off topic!

        … but truth is, what it is, the other day my shopping cart blew away in a warm but gusty and persistent Calgary wind. I and 2 gentlemen, from different directions, ran after it to save the day for someones car as we all saw the possibility of an impending disaster!

        Moral of the story: never take your hands off your cart on a windy day!

        “Windy”
        https://youtu.be/VUv9OK4KUv8

        2. Nancy … you “triggered” another personal story of mine. I was OBSESSED with this tune the summer of 1967 as my 11 yo self walked to my WSI swim lessons (Water Safety Instructor). My older brother had taken the course, so he could work as a lifeguard, and I wanted to do everything he did. My dad had bought me a relatively new contraption called a transistor radio (Panasonic) and it was soooooo miniaturized that it fit in my pocket … the size of a pack of cigarettes only thinner. So off I walked to the swim lessons at my local HS, with transistor radio in pocket … and I remember ‘Windy’ coming on the radio station … every day. It is forever emblazoned on my mind as connected to my hot summer of 1967 swim lessons … when the WIND never blew! There! I’m back on topic! Man, there would have been NO AC back then, if we had to rely on wind power.

          Hahahaha ha ha … that transistor radio was my best friend … and taught me to LOVE guitar intros with really “hooky” melodies. The rest of the song kinda sucked (like the Ray Coniff singers) … but loved that bass intro guitar hook

      2. Wow. Kenji,,,that brought back some memories – have not thought of that tune in decades..!!

        NANCY…I remember hanging out on 2nd/3rd Beach in YVR those days, an 8 transistor radio with antenna, in my small backpack…BEST year ever for Music 1967..!!

    3. Nancy,
      Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8.7
      That is the allusion in Kate’s title.
      I loved W. O. mitchell’s Who has seen the wind.

  4. In a well functioning market, the solution to high prices is…

    …high prices.

    However, when government…

  5. To show perspective to this price…
    I pay $97.50 a 100 lb tank.
    So, my cost would jump to 975.00 for that same tank.
    My neighbors use 4 tanks a month in the winter and I use 3 due to insulation that I installed really works well for my place.
    Electricity is reasonable at less than $100 a month.

    1. Live in central Maine. Use about 100+ gallons fuel oil, $300/year $40 month electric for hot water. Burn wood. Never pay because Im in construction. Pull demo scraps, and trees off sites.

      Full cape. But I dont use upstairs. So heating downstairs is easy. Only if it gets below 10º F and the wind blows from the west do I have to really feed the stove
      If it is 5º below and still, I can go all day on a fish tote bucket of tree wood. Two of pine scraps.
      Mostly use the oil for guests, or when I go away.

      1. Paul

        Awesome…Goodonya..!!
        Am envious of self reliance…were my situation different, I’d be there too.

      2. I live in CA, and pay PG&E an ever-increasing chunk of my monthly nut. I just paid $250.00/month for my 3,200 sq ft home which is under construction (major remodel) and has NO HVAC at the moment (being installed this week. So … we are currently living in 3-rooms: Master Bedroom, Family Room, and Kitchen – about 1,500 sq ft. No Nat. Gas heat, only electric and a Nat. Gas fired tankless WH. And our bill is $250/mo. And every single light fixture has been changed to LED.

        I dread what my PG&E bill will be when the whole house is fired up!?

        I honestly believe that Energy Poverty is a GOAL of the eco-numbskulls in charge of the CA PUC. They want to strip away all disposable income in an effort to destroy our “consumer society”. And every useless “Green” Agency created in CA government is getting rich.

        1. In BC i pay 550$ a month for the last many years. 1700 sq ft, heat set at whatever makes us comfy, garage heated, swim spa set to 102F, also have natural gas for outdoor heating and cooking and fireplace. Not pleased with the price, but what annoys me to no end is the freaks harping about conserving, turning your thermostat down to 65F, don’t use to much water, etc,etc. A service is offered at a price, i’ll use what i damn well please as long as i can pay the bill. Is there any other industry that doesn’t want you to spend more on there stuff? They want people to use less so they can charge more, thus increase profits.

          1. I recognize that my own frugality keeps the electric bill “down”. My neighbors all pay PG&E bills in the $thousands. But fer Christ’s sake … most of my house of OFFLINE … and PG&E still manages to gouge me for 2-1/2 bills!? Puhleeze!?

  6. “Inflation in Germany has already climbed to its highest level in almost 30 years.” Prices for raw plastic, for example have skyrocketed since late last year.

    You voted for it and kept voting for it.
    Does shivering clear your mind of cognitive dissonance or do earth cornholers just triple down and continue clicking their heels?

    This is what you want to see:

    https://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html

    1. Thanks Buddy!
      Great app!
      I can see the individual power generation stations and their current energy outputs are for Ontario.

      I am fortunate to have the ability to shut my propane off at my furnace and still use the kitchen stove for cooking which uses a tank every 6 months.
      I then can switch on the furnace blower and use an electric heater to circulate the heat then.

      1. A couple years ago I put a wood stove in. Its very comforting. I could only cook small portions of Long Pig on it at a time, but still…
        Got a transfer switch/panel hooked up this year so my generator can take over if Greenies take over.

  7. Pretty sure the question of whether Germany has a god-given right to have Russian oil for free was settled in 1945, after Russian boys did all the hard work of bringing global finance’s last fascist experiment under control. (The globalists were not grateful. They still aren’t.)

    Russia, like Alberta, deserves a fair price for her oil and gas. If Berlin and Beijing don’t like that, let them try their luck on the battlefield.

  9. Milton Friedman – “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” It took politicians a little longer to destroy and create shortages in the energy market and but here we are – Friedman’s point proven. You can live fine without sand but unaffordable and unreliable supplies of electricity, heating and fuel…that’s obviously going to cause economic, political and social turmoil.

    Who saw this coming? Everyone who understands the energy industry deeper than the very superficial political, media and activist level.

  10. Glad we completed the line to Irving in Nova Scotia so we can ramp up our shipping of LNG to Europe and take advantage of the huge price increase! Oh, Quebec and the Maritimes wouldn’t allow the pipeline to go through their provinces…never mind.

  12. Based on the present trajectory of the suicidal bankrupt welfare states, despite these problems resulting from green theocracy and institutional hysteria pimping, the reaction will not be one of economic enlightenment but one of doubling down on all that criminally insane political investment. Next step will be nationalization (or fascist variant) of energy. History (of communist failure) has been abandoned or perverted in the institutions of propaganda, even history of the last 60 years. In this deranged dominion where the most internationally competitive industries are resourced-based with energy being the most significant, the road to energy poverty and statist hell was supported by 95% of the voters.

  13. Seen the news. China is having back-outs in some cities. Even with all them “Coal” power plants.

    1. Those nasty Australians said mean things about Xi’s Stalinism and he retaliated by cutting them off selling him coal and now he can’t get enough to keep his economy rolling.

      1. Isn’t that how Hitler lost WWII? Basically responding emotionally? If he had stuck to his knitting and wiped out the RAF airfields and radar, he could easily have taken the UK and made another deal with Stalin to divide Europe. But power corrupts, and when you set it up so that telling you ‘no’ gets the person killed, your feedback loop is broken and bad things become inevitable. It remains to be seen if Xi is the super genius he thinks he is who can manage all of these crises.

        Of course the whole premise of communism is that feedback loops, such as provided by markets, are unnecessary.

        Slow learning China finds out that biological warfare is a losing game. We have known that for a long time. Six months after the Lord Amherst gave smallpox infected blankets to the Indians in St Louis, smallpox broke out in Boston.

    2. Dustoff,

      President for Life Xi Jin Ping has decided that the Chinese need to use less carbon, so they are limiting the amount of coal used by the people. Also he has decided they need to put less crap in the air, so the skies in Beijing are nice and blue for their Winter Olympics telecasts.

      1. Ouch. MSNBC
        ***************
        BEIJING — Abrupt power cuts in parts of China are pushing some foreign companies to invest in other countries instead.

        In the last several days, many local Chinese governments have restricted power usage, limiting or even halting factory production. The latest curbs come as the country faces a shortage of coal to generate electricity, and regional authorities are under increased pressure to comply with the central government’s call to reduce carbon emissions.

        “Some companies were on the fence about investing in China. They choose to not go ahead now,” said Johan Annell, partner at Asia Perspective

  14. Yup,anyone who filled their tanks early or even has fuel in their tanks will be accused of hoarding.
    Denying the collective their “fair share”.
    An independent West would be just raking in the money this winter.
    I live for the day,when we can sell Eastern Canada what they refuse to let us produce..at extortionist rates.
    Why are we still part of this train wreck?

    1. Anyone who references The Farmers Almanac … even with the bad news of a FRIGID Alberta and Sask. this winter … is a pal of mine!

  16. All is proceeding as Putin envisioned, with Biden as his faithful stooge, tamping down fracking in the US and approving Putin’s pipeline into Europe.

    Oh, yeah, there probably would have been a ready market for that Keystone XL oil, too. Canada doesn’t need the money though, I am sure.

    And how about Clinton shutting down coal mining at Staircase so that Mexico had to buy coal from the Philippines, was it? Wasn’t that who paid off Bill Clinton? Now all of that coal has to be shipped over the ocean, at what extra expense in CO2 emissions? Who cares? Bill Clinton got his cut. Of course that’s what really corrupted Hillary, seeing the kind of big money that was on offer for controlling these kinds of government decisions.

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