36 Replies to “Coulda Had A Pipeline”

  1. Kate,
    Link does not work.

    Cheers from 5 degree (F) Wyoming where we stand in awe of global warming.

    2. Roaddog – we’re a tad colder at -18C (you’re at -15C) but certainly we’re “enjoying” the same global warming.

  2. When you understand what the Left’s goals are, a tariff war with the US is a great opportunity for Trudeaux’s successors to unleash mischief.

  3. Thanks Juthtin. Can’t move gas or oil to the coasts so the US is almost the only destination, at a real favorable price … for the US.

  4. Wait. I thought the US was the #1 IMPORTER of Canada oil … yet Canada is a huge IMPORTER of US oil!? Perhaps Brian will explain that to me … yet I suspect it has something to do with selling Canada oil in exchange for our BIG AMERICAN DOLLARS … because Canada are always looking for some fox-y American girls with which to have a swinging time … with American disco music and dance with the giant bulges in their tight pants …

    1. Is this oil or the finished products like gas and diesel? We export our oil to the US because we haven’t built the infrastructure to process it up here, at least in sufficient quantities to satisfy the demand. I don’t think we have anything to process the heavy crude from the oil sands, it has to be shipped to Texas. All of our eastern provinces have to import oil since they wouldn’t let them build a pipeline through Quebec.

      1. Are you serious?

        Edmonton – Suncor, Imperial, Shell, and Heartland
        Lloydminster – Cenovus

        All process heavy oil, including from the oilsands, into refined products.

    2. Refineries in Southern Ontario import US oil, because, Canada pipelines bad, US pipelines good.
      It would be a pity if the US cut off the oil that feeds Ontario refineries.
      A real shame but a bloody good idea. Has Blubbering Dougie considered that yet? Hmmmm?
      I would like to see that happen, just to hear the hypocritical whining from Morontariowe and BC for that matter. BC receives huge quantities of gasoline in the Lower Rainland from Cherry Point WA. And YVR gets its Av Fuel from Cherry Point as well.
      Be a shame if the US retaliates and cuts off that source of needed fuels. Hint Hint Hint.
      Be careful what you wish for Carney, Joly, Blubber Dug, Eby, etc. Stupid is as Stupid does!

      1. Yet Ontario is running a ad blitz on Fox News claiming that Ontario supplies energy to the US. The desperation just reeks from the Ontario Deep State.

        1. Kenji – Ontario is not wrong. BC Hydro, Ontario Hydro, and Québec Hydro all exports lots of electricity stateside. It’s noteable that out PM is only targeting oil and gas (Alberta and Saskatchewan mainly) as bargaining chips while ignoring the massive electric sales to the US.

          2. The electricity flows both ways, they buy when needed, we buy when needed. Oil is much the same, only we buy refined product and the refineries buy light crude from America.

      2. Actually, DanBC, Alberta DOES supply southern Ontario including the Sarnia refineries, Toronto and the Pearson Airport with oil via Pipeline 5, and has done since 1953. Québec and the Atlantic provinces however, have always depended on imported oil which has had its problems.
        JT is proposing a high exit tax on Alberta oil etc. Theoretically, this could mean that the product reaching southern Ontario will now be much higher priced because of the exit tax and this could prove interesting. However, JT has also mused shutting down oil (not – note – energy) exports to the US, which would result n southern Ontario running out of fuel very quickly. It will be interesting.

  5. I’m certain oil exploration, development and production in Nigeria generates far less CO2 emissions and other environmental damage than exploration, development and production in Canada or the United States.

  6. We import 490,000 b/d (2023 numbers)
    We export just under 4 million b/d (2023 numbers)

    If not for the lunatics in charge, Canada’s refineries could be self sufficient.

    In terms of refined petroleum products, in October 2024, we produced ~2 million bpd, exported 324,848 bpd, and imported 112,509 bpd.

    1. The US Senator McCain called Russia a gas station masquarading as a country. If only we could say that about Canada, it would be an improvement.

      1. Canada is a Airport transit terminal, just without the appropriate security checks for foreign people to come and go freely.

  7. A quick review of the refining infrastructure in Nigeria reveals that they import a large portion of their oil from the US. So, to believe that Nigerian oil products are of “Trudeau-approved” environmental and low-emissions cleanliness, one would also have to believe that there is no energy expended moving crude from the US to Nigeria, and refined products from Nigeria to Canada. Or, at least less energy than would be required to pipe the refined products up from the US.

    I’m certain that makes sense to some green troll somewhere.

    Has Sox been vacationing in Nigeria lately?

  8. The Vancouver airport imports all it’s jet fuel via a pipeline from WA State.

    You want to get into a pissing match with a skunk – go for it.

  9. Why are we only talking about Alberta oil as our only bargaining chip in a tarrif war? Why not the threat of no southbound cars from Ontario or airplanes from Quebec? C’mon Premier Ford, don’t be hypocritical….or does that conflict with your limp dicked “Canada is not for sale” claptrap? As an Albertan, I can’t help but wonder what the hell is the benifit in being a member of this diseased dominion? We have always been treated as a backwater colony of the ROC.

  10. The imbeciles in Ottawa Canada have no idea what they’re doing, nor who they’re going to sell anything to if they lose the US market. I doubt there’s any viable plan to sell the vehicles or parts they currently building, nor anything of consequence to anyone. Canada’s ports are not up for exporting anything like what we currently supply to the USA, and there isn’t any contracts with 3rd countries to supply our goods. The federal gov’t is in disarray, the police forces are overwhelmed with crime and like a deer in the headlights they don’t dare act towards the various illegalities within the federal #Libranos.

    Imbeciles, all of them, and all set to toss the entire country in the bin for their hatred of anything American.

    1 more day of wait for the new sheriff, and a few more hours of Biden giving Presidential pardons like party favors at a Diddy party.

  11. To repeat – build the biggest MFing pipeline or two to Thunder Bay and use Seawaymax tankers to deliver to every port on the Great Lakes and on the east coast. Maybe build 100 mile pipeline from the east coast of New Brunswick to St. John so ships don’t have to sail around Nova Scotia to get to the Irving refinery. Since the oil sails on ships there is no provincial jurisdiction so the pussies in Quebec can blow it out their … nose.

    1. I like it. Energy East! The winter on Lk Superior negates shipping.
      There’s a bunch of AB-Sk oil by rail to Superior, Wis. refinery and pipelines.
      But yeah, keep it in Canada.
      Better yet, ship by truck, cause the auto industry trucking will be dead.

      1. Have you watched the rail car pipeline in action in Ontario, hundreds of tanker cars at a time. I sometimes wonder why there just isn’t a dedicated line going from AB to Montreal and back, nothing but tanker cars in a continuous line.

        1. Energy East was a proposal to switch over the transcanada natural gas pipeline to oil. TCPL spent years on it, only to it crushed by “no business case” Libs.
          Like the McKenzie pipeline, crushed by stupid politics. And Northern Gateway.

      2. “winter on Lk Superior negates shipping.”

        The break is 2 1/2 months give or take. Build a tank farm or six in the boonies so they don’t hear or see the potential boom in Thunder Bay.

    2. How about an LNG plant in Thunder Bay. Ship to Europe. Probably wouldn’t work because there’s nothing in it for our quebek brothers.

      Build some arctic ice breakers. The main lake rarely freezes.

      1. I am not sure why the Seaway closes. The ice in the lakes must be 2 feet max. That should be manageable. If not, harden the bows. Maybe it’s too much work keeping the locks from icing up.

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