Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing mission to tell you exactly what the federal Liberal government is saying on energy and environmental policy, this is the verbatim speech of the new Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson, who spoke at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on May 23. In this case, the ministry was kind enough to provide the transcript online, indicating this is a message they really, really want to get out there.
And it is worth taking in. This guy sounds NOTHING like Wilkinson or Guilbeault. He promises reviews in 2 years, not 5. Wilkinson wanted to keep it in the ground.
You can also watch it in the link provided in the story on CPAC’s YouTube channel. I encourage you to take the time to do so. It’s cued up to start at his speech, but if you want to hear his background, which including working on the financing for the Alliance Pipeline, rewind a bit and hear a glowing introduction from the CEO of Suncor.
Notably, the Alliance Pipeline he mentioned financing was the last major pipeline project I worked on. I started work three weeks after my wedding. And out of the 12 guys on my road bore crew, I was the only one married once.
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For giggles, if you want to see who the Anti-Zinchuk is, this is a video from Markham Hislop. He posts daily videos hating everything about the Canadian energy sector, from every angle imaginable. In this video he shoots down the idea Hodgson speaks of regarding Canada becoming an energy superpower. Didn’t Harper come up with that? That’s right, he did.
It got 14000 views in less than a day, and 255 comments.
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Trust. Why should we trust anything the most corrupt government in the history of this place has to say?
Canada is a “small” country?
In any case, one might consider Canada’s uranium reserves also to be more forward thinking.
Words mean nothing. The Liberal Party has already begun the game of saying one thing about pipelines and resource projects to Alberta and Saskatchewan then the opposite to environmentalists in Quebec and, to a lesser extent, Ontario. The Liberals will string Alberta and Saskatchewan along for as long as they can to try to prevent a separation referendum. Then, like Lucy pulling away the football away from Charlie Brown, the Liberals will regulate, delay and prevent energy, pipelines and mining projects. Are Alberta and Saskatchewan going to fall for this crap again?
Talk is cheap. The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan need to get any promises in writing. A binding contract with defined timelines and massive penalties if projects are delayed or cancelled. Quit relying on vague promises and a handshake…get everything in writing. Call Ottawa’s bluff and make them legally accountable for their (lack of) actions.
say opposite things and always be correct for the liberal press
It remains to be seen. These are Liberals, and as we well know, they lie with ease.
Too much “clean” nonsense in his speech, example:
“That includes actively working with provincial and territorial governments to harmonize and link carbon markets across the country.”
Albertans would be well served to view this guy as the Ted Bundy of oil and gas pipelines.
The best part is how its now the state that decides if we are permitted to become a superpower in a given sector, and not our resources or prowess in a given sector.
Brought to you by the same people who think helmet and seatbelt laws are a good thing; the “govern me harder, daddy!” crowd, aka Canadians, both Con and Lib.
I’d say “stick a fork in us, we’re done!”, but that’s so 20th century; the 21s century is the century of the dildo.
The logic is impeccable, Canada is not an energy super-power because we don’t produce enough exportable energy to influence world markets. The critical thinking is non-existent, we don’t produce enough exportable energy to influence world markets because of government regulations and interference. It is mindsets like this that have totally destroyed Canada’s standing in the world, a mindset that dominates 60% of the Canadian voting population. Years ago I would start a rant here but now, I resign myself to accepting the fact that 60% of the Western world has succumbed to the Goebbels-Milgram-Grandin theory, and Canada is at the forefront of the believers.
Reading the comments to the YouTube broadcast by Markham Hislop … I am struck by the urgent reaction to the term “superpower” … forget “energy superpower” … they HATE the idea of any country becoming a “superpower” of anything. The Canadian people are FULLY communist. You’ve got a much bigger problem than oil and gas staying in mother turtle.
Marx Carnage, Hodgson and an Albertan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TamNKpLaiI
With our vast amounts of resources, including large rivers for hydroelectric production, Canadians should be getting royalty cheques every month.
Manitoba NDiPpers, who have run the province WAY to long, even screwed up Manitoba Hydro into just another government money losing black hole.
Markham Hislop is a left-wing activist “journalist” who writes for the National Observer and The Tyee among other leftist outfits. He supported the Tar Sands campaign and tried to discredit Vivian Krause as a “conspiracy theorist”. It’s galling to have him referred to as an “oilpatch journalist”.
“Markham Hislop is a left-wing activist “journalist” who writes for the National Observer and The Tyee ”
That’s where I stopped reading, right at “The Tyee”.
For the Liberals who argue that there is no such thing as the ‘extreme left’, go read the ludicrous rantings of The Tyee. And no, they’re not a knockoff of The Onion or the Babylon Bee…they actually *believe* all that BS they spew on a daily basis (seriously…they do).
Correct, we are a price taker. The best we can do IMHO is to focus on improving the netbacks for producers all along the value chain. This means eliminating any CO2 levies or taxes in any form, Bill C69, any Federal meddling in regulation and enforcement in Alberta to name a few. Not a popular opinion but I do not think that building high cost uneconomic pipelines to Hudson Bay or the north BC coast is a good strategy. Prices in Asia reflect world markets and unless we are competitive there will be no takers. The Russo-Ukraine war will end and Russia once again can supply much cheaper oil to Europe.
Awfully fixated on the phrase “energy superpower”, aren’t they?
Almost like it personally offends them or something.
Bla BLA BLA.
Words are easy.
But concrete actions are required.
P E R I O D!!!
Even if Hodgsin isn’t (yet) a corrupt lying POS like every other Liberal minister, he would still be used as though he were.
Perhaps the plan is to placate those who still live under the illusion that the Liberal Party isn’t an adversarial organization comprised of corrupt, lying POSs committed to the economic destruction of the west. And doing so by dressing up someone seen as favourable to those on the sorta-right.
If so, then they’ll possibly shuffle him out after two years and replace him with someone else which will restart the clock. Or a new fake-emergency will be planned around that time which will delay or scuttle whatever he had in the works. Or some new junk-science BS will take the spotlight from the junk-science of AGW. There’s a hundred different ways this could go.
For those who still can’t see the Liberals for who they are, there is precious little hope.
Did Marx have Chuck on speed dial for the throne speech?
Not likely, the fix was on.
Conspiracy? Ask Virginia Giuffre! Not.
Tim Hodgson’s boss, PM Mark Carney, is an anti-carbon activist, whose wife is also an anti carbon activist and works with Trudeau svangali Gerald Butts at the Eurasia group. Carney has kept all of Trudeau’s anti oil and gas policies. While dialing the consumer carbon tax to zero, he is also planning to create a business carbon tax so as to escape blame for the inflation this will cause.
However refreshing Tim Hodgson sounds, his boss will not be doing anything pro oil and gas if he ever wants to have sex again. So, nice speech, Tim, but we do not believe that you will have any ability to attract capital back to Canada, because your boss does not want that capital to go where it will create the most high paid jobs, which is to oil and gas.
Fred
https://freditorial.substack.com/
I think it’s going to take more than one speech to a friendly dinner crowd for me to change my mind about the future of Alberta/Sask.’s resources within a united Canada.
He may say the right things, may have a glowing Suncor endorsed background, but that giant “L” beside his name, and knowing what his boss has espoused will form most of my opinions of what I’ll expect the results to be.
He may be a terrific guy, and even love dogs, but I can’t see his redeeming qualities from this far west.
He’s seriously outnumbered in both caucus and cabinet.
Just below the first ad in your site’s post Brian, Tim Hodgson mentions how he personally helped Alliance Pipeline’s project build to Chicago, whereby he mentions that both AB and the federal gov’t gain tax revenue from this project. Why does the federal gov’t gain anything from what is Alberta’s natural resources? Isn’t this theft?
He then goes on to mention how he’d helped finance the pulp mill in P.A. Sask. … It was reported here at SDA a few years ago that this project lost more than $240 million, and to note that was ballpark “about 240” to how many employees the pulp mill ever had. That is, if they’d simply given $1 million to each of the employees they’d be just as well off. Only the federal gov’t could F-up EVERYTHING they touch so thoroughly as the #Libranos.
“When President Trump says, “We don’t need Canada’s lumber, energy, autos, or minerals,” it’s not exactly subtle. We know what that really means: the Americans really need all those things.”
Hodgson had just previously said:
“We did not ask for this trade war. But we are going to win it.”
I think what he meant was, “we did not ask for this trade war, but we’re going to F it up like we do everything”.
Ontario is in the short term looking at 100k layoffs and there’s a historic number of micro condos for sale at grotesquely inflated prices, crime seems to be up across the country, everything the #Libranos touch is garbage, and they F it up so consistently they should be known as the * s h I t Midas *
The speech may have its roots in the growing separation movement, and by easing up on the federal gov’t controls they’re advocating for allowing AB/Sask. to act like real provinces should always have been allowed to…
Not directing this at you Brian, it’s “good to see it” … but the federal gov’t cannot make the relationship better with this speech, it’ll take actually following through on a hundred different things, and a completely different relationship between us and them. I doubt everything in their promises, and believe what I see.