This is why Canada can’t have nice things. The Trans Mountain Pipeline is way over budget since Dear Leader took it over. One of the reasons was the need to obtain thousands of permits. They also had to remove by hand moss and move it to another location. Also they had to relocate snakes, 100 ant hills and 150,000 frogs. Warning: CBC link
Does this insanity really require any comment?
Sadly, yes.
Big Aboriginal gets foreign money to protect some grass and stymy the oil sector.
But truckers are bad.
A $2.8B cost is quoted. This is equivalent to an additional 1,000 doctors or 4,000 nurses for 10 years.
Next time you are waiting at the ER, ask yourself if they ever asked us to chose between frogs and health care.
Usually the frogs just hop out of the way. It’s what they do.
That, and frogs have the ability to make more frogs. There is what used to be a “washout” which the farmer switched to forage after 100 years of cultivation as it was a pain to deal with otherwise. The pipeline ended up having to push under this “water way” to avoid disturbing the environment. Funny, the 5 other pipelines right beside it seem to have not sent us to environmental hell yet, and they would have been dug right through the same spot.
Canadians will say frogs.
More proof, as if any were needed, that government does nothing cheaply or well. If they ran a lemonade stand, it would cost $10 per glass, there would be a 6 month wait to get one, it would taste like shit, give you food poisoning and deny any liability.
Which Liberal party buddies are making money off the “death by a thousand cuts” approach to killing the project? How fancy a pickup does Chief Big Screen TV get out of this?
And it would be illegal to buy lemonade anywhere else plus our prisons would be full of people that could make good lemonade.
Don’t forget the required “vaxx” passports to even stand in line.
Read the comments there.
Apparently Saskatchewan and Alberta are being turned into toxic wastelands by this pipeline.
The government can make mountains out of ant hills.
I Wonder who counted the frogs and how much they were paid.
All the signs of a civilization that is flaming out. Any sane Albertan that cares about their future should be voting to separate.
It’s time for canadians to admit that there are two distinct societies in this country (indeed this is true for most western civilizations). There is about one third of the population in Canada that wants govt to basically leave them alone. We need to congregate in bc, Alberta, and Saskatchewan and form a new republic with a rock solid constitution that ensures the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Johnboys
I’VE BEEN in since 1980….my desire for separation has never wavered.
And GUNS! Lots of guns, so this shit never happens again.
This is the end game of blank-cheque, green theocracy. Every species and interest group, especially Indians, must be managed for first, leaving the only actual wealth-creating activity as a residual that falls out at the bottom, if still viable. It is a recipe for total de-industrialization and it is preached in all levels of academia. It is the deliberate ignoring of economic rents resulting in no way of measuring resource tradeoffs. It masquerades under Orwellian slogans like sustainable development, integrated resource management, the precautionary principle, ESG, etc. Given that there are only two types of people on the planet, those who manipulate atoms (nature and things) and those who manipulate people (culture, media, greens, government, academia, their dependents and cheerleaders), developmental stasis such as this represents the triumph of the later over the former. It is the destruction of wealth on an industrial scale, pure economic nihilism. The cowering Eloi of western Europe, dependent on Russian oil and gas is just minor foreshadowing of where this leads.
If there are 150,000 frogs in what way are they endangered?
We all saw this coming.
A fine project,with wonderful opportunities.
To steal from the public purse in traditional Liberal Style.
Compare Kinder Morgans estimates with “Good government” management.
And after all these delaying tactics and massive pillaging of the taxpayers finally peter out..The pipe line will be cancelled as “TOO EXPENSIVE”.
This was all obvious when Dear Leader “Bought the pipeline”.
many here predicted this result.
yet where is Jason?
Still pretending there is a confederation to remain in?