36 Replies to “Who will actually build it?”

  1. 13 billion in trans payments. From Quebec If you don’t pay more of our bills it’s never going to happen.

    GO WEXIT

    1. Agreed – should build it to the port of Churchill which I think is a deep water port. Mind you, it is only open for about 6-7 months off the year, but it is better than nothing.

      2. Hire Russian icebreakers to keep it open in winter?

        The Churchill area federal NDiPper will never let it happen.

      3. How about this.
        The new Republic of West Canada use the money saved of fighting for a pipe line through Ont. & Que. and build a few true Ice breakers so that the port on Hudson Bay is open always .
        Even better Tankers with light breaker capability.
        Pee on Canada.

      4. Churchill is open 3 months of the year. Ice breakers could make it 6 months or more. Canada is building some 500 foot icebreakers.

  3. The only way it gets built is if enough Liebrals decide they need another money laundering scheme. Of course Quebec will ransom it. It’s doubtful any private company will take the gamble.

    1. I’m sure Brookfield will build it for the federal government, they’d love to get in on some of the “cost plus” arrangement like to gov’t completing the TC Coastal GasLink pipeline to the west coast, where there were 3.3 billion in cost overruns.
      Brookfield and SNC battle it out for the gravy.

  4. Who will build it? Not the Liberals, despite Carney’s promises. The guy is more of an eco freak than Guilbeault.

      1. Yes, I think he really believes the climate crisis mass hysteria is a genuine financial scam opportunity.

    1. Pipe it to Superior Wisconsin for boat loading. Most western Canadian oil to southern Ontario, Quebec, and midwest US already goes through Superior Wisconsin.

      2. …the seaway is inadequate for most ocean boats, I bet less than 4% of the World’s bulk fleet can make it to Tundra Bay, the locks are too small…

        1. the original oil tankers ran in the Caspian Sea. shallow and very low salinity . had to be purpose built to handle ice and shallow draught .

    2. Better still: run the pipeline in the St. Lawrence, under water. You then bypass Quebec as well as taking the most direct route.

      Once operating, with the assurance that QC won’t get a cent from the oil, slap a fat tariff on imported oil. That’s what they want, that’s what they get.

      1. Hey Impf, hate to be a bearer of bad tidings for you but the U.S. shares control of the St. Lawrence. We might have something to say about it. Kind of like how we share control of the Great Lakes.

        And right now, Canada is a bit on our shit tier list, so…good luck. Now…if you were willing to pay a premium to us, say getting rid of all of your tariffs, restrictions, and quotas on U.S. goods and paid some sort of ‘environmental accident insurance’ just because, then we might be willing to talk.

  6. Since we failed to strike while the iron was hot years ago, a pipeline built today is going to be transporting a product whose price is undergoing a rapid decline thanks to the sagging world economy. It may not turn a profit for many years.

  7. 4 million export barrels per day,
    97% to USA.

    “After ten years under the Liberals… the largest threat to our energy security in this country is, our biggest customer”

    Please expound on that.

    1. I think the answer to that is close by in Mr. Zinchuk’s article: “The largest threat to our energy security in this country is not China, or Russia. It’s our southern neighbours.”

      …but you signed a trade protection deal with China that stands for another 20 years (and you can guess how well it’s done for you), and you signed a similar deal with Russia (then the USSR) that is similar (and they are bffs forever with China according to both of them).

      And it’s gotten so bad that we have stop sharing intel with you through the Five Eyes, because you’re country is actively running interference for terrorist groups.

      You’ve done this to yourselves, but my country is the boogeyman…you know what they say about wishing things into existence.

    2. 1. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been trying for years to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline which supplies Ontario.
      2. If Trump gets nasty and decides to shut down Enbridge Line 5 and/or 6, central Canada is cut off. This is someone who is already taking action to destroy our industries and jobs. Doesn’t want Canadian cars ring a bell?
      3. Yes, our exports go to the US. But we are also dependent on them to import back into Canada via those two pipelines.

  8. methinks Canaduh is a nation suffering multi personality disorder.
    no known cure or treatment.
    aaaaaaaaaall downhill from here, arguing about deck chairs on the titanic.
    by tomorrow l will know in my own mind if lm right.

  9. “Drill Baby Drill” … and Trump’s tariffs have caused [sic] Alberta crude to sell at only ~ $55.00/bbl today. Since that’s barely enough payout to even bother taking it out of the ground (according to Mssr. Zinchuk) … then who or WHAT is gonna $PAY for that pipeline?

  10. Both parties are talking about an Energy corridor, but details are sparse and they may mean different things.
    This article is not what most people would have imagined: 2018
    // The lead researcher for a proposed Northern Corridor across Canada says the project is “building momentum.”
    Dr. Jennifer Winter, a researcher with the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said she and her colleagues are pitching a national right-of-way that could be used for road, rail, pipeline, electrical transmission and communication infrastructure.
    The route would run through Canada’s north and near north and would interconnect with the country’s existing transportation network. //
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/canada-northern-corridor-infrastructure-1.4861272

  11. No company will take it on unless and until the feds start acting in the national interest and declare it in the national interest. That is all that was needed for TMX but the Liberals decided to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to essentially buy a few seats in the Vancouver area.

  13. Too little, too late.

    Energy East is being pitched as the unicorn that will save Canada. Reality is that it would be at least 5 years before any oil flows and at that time the political pressures hyping this may disappear. Quite frankly it makes sense to export most to the US and beyond through Texas ports … what we need is a trade framework that makes this work. If Mexico can ship strawberries to us through the US, we need a transshipment agreement where we can sell to Europe through Texas.

    On the other hand, 5 years of engineering studies would certainly help the businesses in Calgary.

    1. That’s not by accident. You needed road and rail to build the original TransCanada Pipeline.

  16. I don’t know why they would not build new segments from Kapuskasing to Rouyn Noranda to Levis.

  17. The only possible way is to go east from Kapuskasing and cross the St. Lawrence downstream from Quebec City. It can’t be anywhere near Ottawa or Montreal or the whining gets too loud.

  18. “The largest threat to our energy security in this country is not China, or Russia. It’s our southern neighbours.”

    Sorry Brian,the largest threat to our energy security is and has always been Ottawa.
    Nothing Trump has said or done changes the shameful state we are in.

    We are in this pathetic state of weakness thanks to decisions made in Ottawa,by Liberal and Conservative Governments.
    Basically Eastern Canada feels threatened by a wealthy and independent West.
    Based on 6 decades of observation..Confederation is a Crab Bucket.
    For reasons of their own,Eastern Canadian Leaders cannot see that a richer Alberta and Saskatchewan will mean a richer Canada.
    So the line east will never be built.

    So we may as well build more South and West pipelines,cause any Eastern oil flow will always be subject to extortion.

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