Despite spending a gazillion dollars worth of taxpayers money over multiple generations to try and ship things out of Churchill its never really worked. But this time it will be different…
Mackay- Manitoba could become Europe’s not-so-secret weapon against Russia
The port of Churchill, Man., could supply our allies in Europe with Canadian energy to free them from reliance on the Russian oil that fuels Putin’s war machine.
There are challenges, of course, ranging from building pipeline infrastructure and railroads through muskeg and melting permafrost, to contending with winter ice. But none of the challenges is insurmountable with modern engineering and environmental expertise.
In terms of infrastructure, new railways and pipelines would be needed, as would roads, telecommunications infrastructure, a new terminal with an underwater pipeline (mono buoys) and emergency services infrastructure.
No. Just no.
Well, maybe. The old Soviet Union was able to build infrastructure in similar conditions. According to Solzhenytzen they built arctic rail lines and ports on the backs and lives of their political prisioners. As Mackay is part of the uniparty maybe he’s planning ahead for the location of Canada’s Own Goolagh.
No jab commrade? You get an all expenses paid trip to the end of the rail line to live in a tent and build a port but you’ll have to provide your own food, water and heat — other than the tent of course.
Let the Euro-weenies solve their own energy problems. They stupidly let a teen age clown from Sweden direct energy policy in the EU and elsewhere.
The EU is beyond help, they got woke and now they are broke in many ways.
The EU are no longer our trusted allies. They use us and laugh.
The polar bear and seal studies alone will take 40 years and $10gagajillion.
Don’t get them started on the whales. (Falls to his knees and pleads towards the ceiling)— Please don’t get them started on the whales!
Peter McKay…pissing into the wind.
And not a peep about Keystone, nor the blatant NAZI’s in power both sides of the border who are diametrically opposed to the very existence of oil n gas….
Peter’s gone Senile.
Pete got cucked by Belinda years ago.
Never recovered.
One of my favorite tag lines from that era was, “The only Conservative bone in Belinda was Peter’s”.
Still makes me laugh.
You beat me to it. He fizzled out after she dumped him.
He said “dogs are loyal”.
In other news turncoat Danielle Smith is considering politics. Really? After leading WildRose only to slink across the aisle to french kiss Diamond Jim Prentice and then lose to Red Rachel’s endeepee..something smells
BA, I’m thinking his conservative bone kept fizzling out and that’s why she dumped him!
Assuming he could rise to the occasion when required.
Not why Stronach left. Her and Brison and I forget who else, flipped to Lieberals to prop up the Martin minority. If Martin had needed one more vote, MacKay would have went with them
Anybody dedicated to the destruction of the self-titled ‘Conservative’ party should really work towards getting MacKay elected leader. He’s poison. Last leader of the federal PC. Make him the last leader of the CPC too
Joseph – “Never recovered” – Really? I’m no McKay fan but his wife is a former Miss World who is smart and so much better looking than spoiled little Liberal Belinda Stronach that it’s hard to believe they are the same gender. In this photo she’s more attractive than Kate Middleton. IMHO. Clearly, opposites attract (considering how butt ugly Peter McKay is, again, IMHO).
https://www.chatelaine.com/living/author-and-activist-nazanin-afshin-jam-sexy-smart-and-revolutionary/
Heh …
The times are so convoluted that to a sensible person the actions are incomprehensible.
So the story says that the permafrost is melting because of AGW caused by oil.
Then is says that there should be a railroad through it to load more oil to transport to other countries for them to burn and bring on more of the AWG.
Of course there is no AWG, the climate has changed, is changing and will change. Only corrupt politicians and those that make killing on the scam will turn it into money making enterprise.
The politics of bizarre are the order of the day.
Then, in this country, the population is all taken in without a single question, there are no sceptics lest you be cancelled and removed from employment.
They learned well from the socialists, fascists, communists and other such ‘ists how to enforce the dogmas.
Churchill never worked as a grain port without massive subsidies. All it did was damage the economy of Thunder Bay.
Vancouver and Prince Rupert are closer to tidewater.
CP double tracked the rail from Manitoba to Thunder Bay.
Why did Churchill never have a chance? Because prairie farmers had to ship their grain an extra 2,000 miles through Ontario and Quebec to pay for the Seaway instead of using a port on the prairies. Remember the Wheat Board? Its major purpose was to keep the sale price of grain to Canadian farmers low.
Churchill has a 3 month shipping season which could likely be doubled or tripled or more with icebreakers and tough hulled ships.
Russians could build it for us! They probably have the technical know how to build a northern port.
Americans from Alaska should also be brought in to build our roads, they have better roads up there.
Canadians would then have a great opportunity to lecture them about diversity and similar areas of our expertise.
Would have to build nuclear powered icebreakers, but they can’t replace old helicopters or fighters, or anything else for that matter. Oh, wait we have lots of vaccines.
Peter, do you think that the bay up in Churchill is just as accessible as the one in Bedford Basin?
What’s physically easier to build?
A pipeline to the east coast? Or a shipping port that has limited access for 6-8 months?
I said physically not politically.
Wait until they find out about the tide.
Great idea if they can make it work,there are still people that can get things done in this country.
Yes there are but they’re thwarted by government, the environmental regulatory system, socialists posing as environmentalists, the Indian industry and the lying media. Besides, this is not a serious proposal as it would be the most expensive oil in the world or the taxpayers would be subsidizing the shit out of it until the Russians or Saudis cut a deal to supply Europe with their energy needs, after which this would be abandoned. Once again this is not a serious proposal, it’s just Peter McKay angling for support from the prairies.
After eating the huskies as an appetizer, we’re always looking for new human meat suits to add variety to our diets.
Peter McKay never had a Conservative bone to give Belinda to begin with.
When will the Turd legalize whatever McKay’s on?
Sure, lets ship energy for a war against Russia through an ocean that Russia can control and we can’t.
Bestest idea ever.
Huge contract to SNC Lavalin for a feasibility study in 3-2-1….
So now Global Warming is a good thingy, eh ? Ice cubes, ice breakers are all that Ottawa knows of the situation.
Churchill is a possibility but an even better, cheaper and easier route would be Energy East, if we only had a PM with enough backbone to declare it in the national interest and veto Quebec’s refusal to allow its passage through Quebec. The man is incapable of learning even as we watch Europe tank as a result of reliance on Russian oil and gas.
Any chance we could find a way to use to ports we already have, more effectively?
It’s seems everyone wants to reinvent the wheel when we have a decent infrastructure already in place that is compromised by regulations, unions, and unaccountable bureaucracy. If we can’t fix those things, why would we think we could make Churchill work?
Better yet let’s do nothing,let’s sit on our hands and bitch about everything.Much better and easier
Websites like https://wattsupwiththat.com/ and https://electroverse.net/ cover arctic ice advance, retreat, thickness and so on. There was ice still floating around in the bay in July last year. It’s not going away or decreasing. Not anymore. With the sun likely entering an extended solar minimum, that ice will form sooner and leave later. But the warmists keep telling people and politicians that it will disappear, and expensive decisions will be made based on seriously flawed computer models and wishful thinking. We’ll have rail lines and pipelines to nowhere.
Well those rail lines could come in handy should the World freeze over.
Hmmm, what’s left could survive by running a nonstop train around the globe.
Could even call said train, Snowpiercer.
Just not a credible idea for a fake nation led by a real c*nt followed by full retards.
Shipping fossil fuels from Churchill isn’t going to happen. Manitoba will have an NDP government soon and they will do everything possible to thwart the prospect of actually making the province prosperous and self reliant. Their attitude to any investors is always genial at first then f*ck off once the enterprise is underway.
This one won’t even get underway because of all the green busybodies. None of them have the first clue where money comes from, other than the government.
What a load of shit. Years of castrating our energy industry and now we are gonna open a new port to ship hydrocarbons in order to fight a country we aren’t at war with. Canadian politics is beyond parody.
I really do think we ought to stop blaming Trudeau for our worries. Canadians in general are the problem if you ask me.
It would make more sense for Alberta using 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group based in Edmonton and the fighter squadrons based out of Cold Lake to invade northern B.C., take over the NG & oil producing parts and Prince Rupert–the run the pipeline to the coast and start selling the stuff for gold. Once that’s established (or concurrently) stop paying the equalization payments to Ottawa and instead use the money to pay the troops of 1CMBG and pilots of the Cold Lake squadrons…and if you’re (AB) is smart…bribe the Navy based in Victoria to protect the sea lanes. And Ottawa can’t do anything about it. Oh–and make English the only official language of the new country.
Speaking of the Cold Lake squadrons, any chance Maple Flag is on this year?
Personally I’m praying for an ice storm to hit Ontario and Quebec. Or for the auto industry to shutter its Canadian operations should Trump be re-elected and go nuclear with made in America nationalism. I’ll forgo the asteroid for the time being. Eastern Canada needs a reset in order for pipelines to be rebuilt. But if that were to happen you’d quickly see Trudeau nationalize the energy industry, thus screwing the west with a new NEP.
Sounds like something he lifted from a grade 8 social studies essay. I doubt even Canadians are stupid enough to believe such quackery.
No kidding ! The Port of Churchill would require tens of $Billions just to move a couple of ships through its very limited transport season of about 6 weeks.
Ships are the easy part.
The rail line, over 1,000 miles long, cannot handle heavy freight and would have to be re-built.
The rail line also runs through at least six different “First Nations” plus however many other claimants would come out of the woodwork for their share of wampum.
Google “Mackenzie Valley Pipeline” to see what happens when hearings go on for decades.
PS. That pipeline has all of its permits and could be built, starting tomorrow, yet no sane company would even attempt to do so.
The official “reason” Berger gave for putting the MVP up on blocks for at least 20 years was so that it gave the various reserves to have enough workers for it. Uh-huh. PET wanted to kill it all along because it would have benefited western Canada, but didn’t want to come right out and say so. Instead, Berger concocted that horse puckey excuse.
I remember when the news about it was released. The responses ranged from “Huh?” to “Yeah, right.”
That was 45 years ago. Meanwhile, the market for the gas had disappeared. Like my father would have said in his German-accented English, “Real schmart.”
Don’t forget that it wasn’t the only proposal that was considered. The Alaska Highway Pipeline suffered a similar death by a thousand cuts. Meanwhile, the Ipsco and Stelco steel mills were gearing up to produce lots of pipe, but those plans had to be scrapped.
I happen to love my country, extremely good and slightly bad, supposedly…
Mr. MacKay’s proposal deserves consideration, and engineering assessment, according to actual scientific standards: something about pipelines…
Now, Mr. MacKay has been to this home, and I have been to Thompson, Manitoba on the INCO parade: I’m pretty certain that this could work.
Plus, we have lawyers in Calgary.
Would take twenty years of hearings and licensing, supportive federal and provincial governments, and a corporation that was not beholden to its ESG-minded “stakeholders.”
Never. Going. To. Happen.
Sort of like the F-35s (88), I suppose.
Concur, entirely. On the other hand, let’s give it a go!