$40 billion in oilpatch CAPEX sounds great for 2023, until you realize it is half of 2014

Drill, Baby, Drill Ethical Energy 31 Comments
Oilwell battery construction in southeast Saskatchewan, fall of 2022. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

Back in the lofty, pre-Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian petroleum industry. On Wednesday, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) forecast CAPEX of $40 billion, which is just about double the disaster year of 2020, but half of 2014. And that’s before #justinflation. What would it be if we had a federal government supportive of the industry, instead of trying to make it disappear?

Curiously, Enbridge announced on the same day its spending a lot of money in Texas, including a port facility for Houston. Funny how it’s not talking about Northern Gateway to Kitimat, or Churchill, or even Valdez, Alaska? Wonder why?

And here’s Brian Zinchuk’s column analyzing all this.

Good Morning, Chinada!

Chinada 36 Comments

The next time you cheat on your taxes, do it in Mandarin: No charges will be forthcoming in one of B.C. largest-ever money laundering probes

“Regrettably, the challenge of proving a viable predicate offence, given the wording of the current legislation, combined with the complexity of an enormous data set in a foreign language, have conspired to make the prospects for conviction poor, despite the best efforts of many dedicated officers,” he said in a statement released Wednesday.

According to Considine, the investigation produced 41,877 documents. Police also seized almost 90 smart phones and intercepted more than two million communications, the majority of which were in Mandarin.

And besides, it could get awkward.

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

Democrats I, Napoleon 22 Comments

Now we know how the Romans felt under Caligula.

The RealClear Defense article cites official U.S. Army training PowerPoint slides, which were originally uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, and notes that they cover various “vignettes,” such as what Commanders should do if “a ‘female to male’ soldier announc[es] a pregnancy.” RealClear Defense also explains that the PowerPoint slides cover a scenario where a “male to female” soldier, who successfully transitioned and is officially recognized as such despite not having gender reassignment surgery, “wants to use female-designated showers.” “Another scenario describes a female soldier who is experiencing tension with a ‘transgender female’ roommate.”

Though to be fair, even Caligula knew a horse from an ass.

Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 10 Comments

Humour for a Thursday morning:  Burning children’s books.  A woke publisher.

Biden’s America:  Critical thinking in America.  NIH and transgender avatars.  They are California fleein.  Exploring Angie’s communist roots.  A question for Damar Hamlin.

Global Warming Scam News: Greta arrested again.

Woke Europe:  Now try this at a mosque. Mocking Christianity.  Germany to introduce feminist foreign policy.  A Neil Oliver history lesson.

The Chinese Colony Of Canada:  Because they need more drugs in B.C. Permission to sell cocaine.  And free birth control with your cocaine.  More China virus money down the drain.  Peking Justin is still fundraising in Vancouver.  No white people.  Don’t upset the alphabet people.  Justin wants you to have four more boosters.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada 30 Comments

Terry Glavin;

“In Part Two, among other things, I’ll present an illuminating but only a representative sample of the players because, as I’ve said, a full rogues’ gallery would make this newsletter the size of one of those old telephone books. They’re not all Liberals by the way. The New Democrats have their share, and the Conservative Party. . . let’s just say for now that the Conservative Party has a very serious problem that needs attending to. Very serious.”

Nothing would surprise me anymore

Stolen land?

We Are All Treaty People 20 Comments

The Canadian host of the Daily Objective and America lawyer James Valliant weigh in on the subjects of indigenous rights, property rights, genocide, reparations and touch on today’s nearly obligatory nods to land acknowledgements at every public event. Warning: no political correctness to be found here.

Valliant has this to say about the history of indigenous culture:

“The three most important words in history are: compared to what?”

“Whatever the imperfections of the British legal system, native Americans were not on their way to discovering Lockean property rights, nor were they on their way to the discovery of classical liberalism, much less be at the dawn of an industrial revolution…when the British came, they were bringing an objectively better system that benefitted everyone more than the system that existed before.”

 

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

2015 Federal Election Chinada Shiny Pony 24 Comments

Via CBCWatcher: This Reddit user discovered the anomalous contributions to the Liberal Papineau Riding Association at the time… and was derided as a racist

Back in 2017, I analyzed public Elections Canada donation records from the 2015 election and detected an unusual volume of large cross-country donations flowing from individuals with Chinese surnames residing in BC into the riding associations of Justin Trudeau (Papineau), Jason Kenney (Calgary Milnapore) and Andrew Leslie (Orléans). These donations are separate from the “cash-for-access” fundraisers that Trudeau organized with CCP-linked billionaires while campaigning for the 2015 election.

I posted about these findings on Reddit, calling for an investigation, and was widely derided as a racist. I also sent in tips to CBC, the Globe and Mail, and CTV. None of these media organizations investigated or reported on the issue.

A few days later, and for about two weeks, whenever I left the house I was obviously trailed by individuals of Chinese appearance (in an area with almost no Asian population). Various individuals would sit in their cars across the street watching our house and waiting for me to leave. This only stopped when I reported the issue to the FBI. […]

The out-of-province donations to Trudeau’s riding association by individuals with Chinese surnames residing in BC dwarfed the donations that he received directly as a candidate. And because these donations were made to his riding association rather than himself or his party, were never reported in the media. Few think to examine riding association donations rather than donations directly to candidates or parties, because the concept of funneling riding association donations to directly support candidates was new to the 2015 election. I’m also not sure if it is legal.

Embrace Hollywood!

Democrats Embrace Hollywood Safe and Effective 8 Comments

“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore

The phone call I mentioned above was with a person who works in the entertainment industry and said they obtained—through connections—vaccination record cards for use by major Hollywood celebrities and others.

These aren’t counterfeits, but actual cards purloined from a hospital pharmacy where the vaccines were sold and included batch numbers but without names attached. In essence, they were contraband.

The person claims to have been inspired to do something for people in the face of forced vaccination after news emerged that the virus might have been the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, and that the government had been lying about the pandemic in general.

My interlocutor says they began selling the cards in early April 2021. Between then and early October 2021, calls were apparently coming in every day for contraband cards.

Via Ed Driscoll

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Great Reset Tech 19 Comments

The future of everything.

“They grovel before the altar of the ‘electronic health record,’ or EHR, a corporate creation that widgetizes and dehumanizes doctor and patient. In 2016, MDs spent almost 40% of their patient care time (now surely higher) pecking on computers. No wonder they retire or leap from ledges. With the advent of EHRs, weekly meetings of the clinical staff where I once worked no longer included discussions of actual patients. Instead we war-gamed how to enter EHR data so as to satisfy insurers, the government, and our corporate overseers.”

Wednesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 13 Comments

Biden’s America:  California in crisis.  Is it ok to be white?  Kid torches woke school board.  Welcome to New Kyiv.  Florida’s Orban renewal project.  The really creepy Joe Biden.  Your morning meme.

Black History Month:  Stories you won’t find at the CBC. A land acknowledgement.

Global Warming Scam News:  The winners of Biden’s clean energy economy.  California hit by global warming.

Today In Islam:  Misrepresented because of Islamophobia.  Don’t upset the Muslims.

Woke Europe:  Diversity in Britain.  You will eat bugs or starve.

Trudeau’s Canada:  The unmarked graves scam.  A Muslim college student.  Christine Anderson addresses accusations.  The Trudeau scandal.  A UN investigation (Warning: CBC link).  Today China’s Trudeau burns jet fuel to B.C.  A full day of photo ops for his loyal media(and fundraising).  And Justin hires a rapper.

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