Anyone think that new pipeline might actually make a real difference? Hmmm? Too bad it wasn’t done five years ago. Trans Mountain pipeline project ushers in new era for oilsands hub Fort McMurray.
And too bad Northern Gateway wasn’t built 8 years ago. And Energy East was supposed to be in service December, 2018. Lots of too bads. I wonder why…
So I take my kid to a career day in Estevan, THE ENERGY CITY, and not one energy company has a table at the career fair. Here’s my not too impressed column about it.
Cenovus got spanked for an offshore oil spill.
And if you move dirt, ever, in Saskatchewan, you should be aware of Sask 1st Call. They had some big changes last year, apparently.
I’m interested in any responses from the no show companies in question. Let us know, please.
It’s over. No growth. Few rigs working. Big operations just cranking out what’s already been done.
Why hire?
Because they have a hard time staffing the remaining rigs.
After nine years of Trudeau the rust in Canada’s energy sector is settling in.
You can’t do this to a country and not expect consequences.
Must be an election in the wind!
Tough slogging until the next election. You’ll be surprised at how quickly the energy sector bounces back when optimism returns with tax and red tape cuts.
Until then? I see nothing but idiocy on the horizon.
Every day I get updates from companies wanting to hire people. I see the same companies looking, and offering less money, I read these construction company reviews online and am amazed at what they think is reasonable to offer a new hire, and how they’ve treated people poorly in the past 5 years.
A company I’d worked for (and never will again) had the same ad on indeed.ca underpaying, poorly treating, with rage reviews for them that anyone can read, and speaking with former co-workers, they have no responses from potential hires for near to 2 years. They ended up outsourcing the work they needed at 3x my rate as the alternative is not having it done at all. They simply could not get their head around how to write an ad to bring people in instead of pushing them away.
Peter Zeihan touches on the subject while speaking about US military recruitment, and it’s widely known how the military treats people they see as disposable. In Canada, the equipment and accommodation is garbage, I still read about active military members lining up at food banks. Perhaps it is the rise of the internet, allowing people to say publicly to 1000’s how poorly the gov’t treats them after they’d signed to fight for their country?
It happens to restaurants which serve poor quality food with servers who hate people and washrooms which haven’t been cleaned in a week, it happens with gov’t too, as it should.
Why would anyone fight for tier 2 Canada now? The energy sector can turn on a dime, the military will take a generation to figure out why people won’t join them.
I’m optimistic for the energy sector AFTER Trudeau/Biden are defeated. The rest of the work world is going to suck, and you won’t want to be laid up in a hospital either, waiting in a hallway for a room and nurse who knows how poorly she’s being treated by her gov’t overseers …
Wanted different results? Should have had 5 kids instead of 1. There are fewer children being born now than at any point in the past and in 10-20 years? we already know how bad Canada will be.
I agree strongly with almost all you say here, especially the military part. Who would join when you have soldiers lining up at food banks? That’s a real thing. And as someone who served in the reserves years ago, I believe it.
How much new activity is required to bring the pipeline to capacity? I’d make the assumption that the first action would be the redirect from rail carriers to pipelines, but I’m not sure how much that represents in terms of capacity use.