45 Replies to “Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends”

  1. Yeah, still waiting to see all the catastrophists cut back on THEIR co2 footprint. Eat the bugs Trudy. Hahaha.

    1. Didn’t Al gore just fly to Davos Switzerland on his private jet to lecture us yet again?

      2. … and doesn’t his private jet have to burn more fuel when the dead weight of the passengers increases to the upper limits of aerodynamic lift?

  2. I could see a purpose of doing carbon capture, if they were planning to sell the captured CO2 to greenhouse operators at a price less than what it costs the greenhouse operators to purchase NG at (along with the associated anti-humanist carbon taxes). but that’s not what’s happening, and it would also be blocked by those same liberal government ideologues

  3. They insure they get their spot at the trough, and the serfs suffer for it.
    Meanwhile we will still have weather, and mother nature will still have her way with humanity.
    Corrupt to the core.

  4. This is the corporate equivalent of ragging the puck in order to run out the clock on the current government. Play along to get along. In the current environment (no pun intended), it’s the easiest and less costly choice, even if they are using our money. All adults know that FF are here years to come. Self-defenestration on principle is not in the best interests of shareholders.

    1. Well, they could be playing the same game that politicians play, kicking the can way down the road so that the politician doesn’t have to pay the consequences of their decisions… but that still involves a malinvestment of funds

    2. I’m not disagreeing with you, but playing along to get along is why we are in the mess we are in.
      Starting with the media
      The justice system
      Workers and employers.
      Industry.
      Yeah that’s the way it is.
      Until principles have more meaning, than the amount of zero’s behind a figure.
      There doesn’t seem to be any balance, if that’s even possible without some kind of major upheaval of the whole corrupt system.

  5. People need to stop playing along with the delusions of the mentally ill. It just encourages more insanity.

  6. If we put all these eco freaks in jail that could be called carbon capture and it would solve a lot of problems.

  7. There is alot of loose carbon to be captured when Justin starts speaking. With all the um’s, ah’s and uh’s he uses to fill in between his lisping platitudes, if he just transitioned his speech to something more coherent, this country would meet it’s Davos inspired target.

    1. V, don’t waste your breath. Too many of these idiots don’t understand basic English, let alone basic science.

  9. And the really REALLY big problem with this is, even if they succeeded in sucking-out 110% of the CO2, they STILL would not satisfy the Libranos, and they STILL would be ordered to shut-down their operations by them. This is kinda’ like the investors in Keystone XL – doesn’t matter what they do or say, they’ve incurred the wrath of a federal government and no matter what, they’re still gonna’ lose all their money.

  10. Smart move on the companies part.
    When they get through collecting all the tax cuts and subsidies attached,they can pay a junior employee,to write up the results..

    “Duh,we removed the asphalt from the sands,cleaning up God’s Biggest oil spill.
    Dumped the tailings back near the hole and then created our “Carbon Capture”..
    Please pay up”.

    Carbon Capture=Trees.

    At this point in the game,with an insane and predatory parasitic overload(or rulers,regulators and thieves),any resource company,with any due diligence to their shareholders, must rape the perverse incentives structure..Any way they can..

    Carbon Capture.
    Think about it.
    Asphalt is by definition “High Carbon” content.
    So legally and logically capturing hydrocarbons is Carbon Capture.
    And then..safety first,these same companies are “Disposing of that carbon safely..

    And we know how stunningly stupid our government help is.
    Unless you missed the last 3 years..
    Or the last 4 decades.
    So these companies are protecting their own interest.

    Unlike most “Carbon Capture” this ain’t fraud.
    They really are “Capturing Carbon”.
    And stand to profit ..from the idiocy of our bureaus.

    When are we leaving the citizens of Con federation to freeze and starve in their virtue?

    Buffalo is a really good name for a Nation born out of the need to stampede.
    Away from insanity and depravity.
    And we have the perfect capitol site at Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump..

    A perfect name to remind the kiddies 6 generations away,that politicians and bureaucrats are naturally prone to go mad,in their lust to rule.

    2. Co2 “capture” is a transfer of wealth scheme from the (mostly) conservative oil producing pocketbooks to the (100%) leftist “greenie” pocketbooks. That’s all. More Communist transfer of wealth.

      The commies are selling the capitalists the rope to hang themselves with … to paraphrase Don Henley … “… and Jesus, people bought it”

    1. “We need more CO2, not less.”

      – CLIMATE MURDERER!!!!!! Are you also “quelquefois raciste, quelquefois misogyniste”? – asking for a certain unnamed prime minister… /sarc, if I gotta’ say it 😉

      1. Ohhhhh mommaaaa … Co2 … “disproportionately harms the BIPOC’s and females ( … whatever those are)”. … and “the underserved”.

  12. Turning the other cheek to these Marxist maniacs is not a viable strategy.

    The crocodile will still eat you.

    You have to fight it to the death.

  13. Been to a Suncor or Cenovus Energy website lately? Holy Honkin’!! A mishmash of social justice, gender and indigenous studies with a slathering of Syrup de Renewables. Nothing more pathetic than a group of white employees gathered around a teepee, heads bowed in faux solemnity while Jimmy Jack leads them in prayer.
    LOL…I have to believe at least one of them was thinking “What the hell are we even doing here?”.

    Just another arm of the gov’t in my opinion more concerned about their ESG scores than stock price.

    2. The ESG Banksters and corporate cowards overly influenced by their institutionally leftist HR spin doctors are playing politics with shareholder money. Rent seeking and “stakeholder” capitalism is an ugly beast. Carbon capture beyond enhanced recovery and reforesting the surface extraction site is likely a needless cost added to the consumer or taken from the shareholders. ESG is epistemological mush, a toxic combination of green (pseudo-environmental) theocracy and post modern nihilism (Marxism).

      1. Don’t invest then.

        I sold everything Alberta the day after Notley won.

        I won’t invest in Canadian stock of anything going forward.

        1. There’s still money to be made in juniors and mid-caps in the oil patch that aren’t as political as the majors and integrated companies that have so much capital trapped in place that they play politics. Today when every economy is mixed with statism, free market capitalism only exists in the underground economy. Unless you want to lose a couple of points in bonds after inflation, there aren’t a lot of “investment” options outside of some seedy relationship to the state.

    3. “What the hell are we even doing here?” Play acting, just like our Dear Leader is always doing.

  14. The oil companies need to stop producing and shipping oil and let the chips fall where they may until the people wake the hell up. Prices will go through the roof and then the supply will completely dry up and people will understand what the government has in mind for them. They can either live with it or rise up and do something about it. All they would have to do is send everyone on vacation for a month at the same time.

    1. Very boomer post.

      Been hearing this for years.

      Also…counting on people “waking the hell up” is a waste of time.

      1. That waste of time is why you are here, that is to say, you hope to hear of something encouraging. Starvation and freezing will be very effective in waking people up. What happens when they do will also be of great concern. i.e., cuba.

    2. “The oil companies need to stop producing and shipping oil ”
      yeah, just fire everybody, leave all the investors out to dry, get sued into penury, etc.
      ..exactly what the left wants.

  16. Patrick Moore certainly has a way with words. I wonder how many of the “Greenies” know that Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Green Peace but left in disgust after Green Peace became yet another Green obsessed organization.

    For anyone to believe Carbon Capture in the oil patch somehow gets them to Net Zero , other than completely ceasing operation, must also believe in perpetual motion machines … but alas that probably defines the majority of idiots in Canada who believe in Net Zero.

  18. I heard the Mafia is also going Net-Zero – burying bodies and not burning them in cars.

  19. You think ‘carbon’ capture is a good investment?

    I have a magnesium plant to sell you.

    The mysterious Magnesium Company of Canada

    What’s the story behind that mysterious huge brown complex seen off the highway between Aldersyde and High River? I don’t know how many times, on trips to South Kananaskis, that I’ve passed by the place and asked myself that very thing. I never seemed find the time to stop…until now that is.

    This is or actually was the site of the Magnesium Company of Canada (or MagCan), a state of the art facility built using (of course) a great deal of Government money. Opened in 1990 and closed not much more than a year later, during it’s brief existence it never came close to operating at full capacity. It never turned a profit and employment came no where near the levels promised.

    ————————

    The closing of the plant was blamed on low metal prices, the high Canadian dollar and higher than expected operating costs. No doubt the latter could be partly blamed on the long distances the product had to travel between the mine, plant and end user. I can’t imagine how this spot could be considered ideal for this facility.

    The question being asked, is where did all the money go? Over 100 million in loan guarantees was paid by the Alberta Government.

    More. . .

    2. You gotta remember that the decision to build magnesium plant by High River had nothing to do with economics or any expectation of profit.
      The plant was built because the socialist PM at the time had the purse of government and power of prime minister to have it built.
      He was from High River. Never worked one day in in his life in real world where you gotta produce stuff.
      If you can remember, he lasted less than a year, June 4, 1979 – March 3, 1980.
      The magnesium is mined between Exshaw and Canmore by Baymag, German company, well hidden by the foot of the mountain. https://baymag.com/company-overview/
      You walk by it hiking to the Grotto canyon.
      The product is loaded on a train and shipped to BC somewhere.

  20. As another commenter posted here
    ” The government’s real goal is to Net Zero your Net Worth, if your lucky

  22. The energy to separate, purify, pressurize and store the CO2 is so high along with the cost that it’s not feasible to be competitive. The whole idea is nonsense. It’s dumber than the whole ridiculous hydrogen hype that defies physics, reality and any sense of economic logic.

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