National energy corridor? Pipelines? Not mentioned in throne speech, but “energy superpower” is.
21 Replies to “How can you be an energy superpower without pipelines?”
The agenda is for a green scam energy superpower brought to you by the corporatist state, a toxic blend of green theocracy and fascism. Taxes on real energy will partially pay for a debt-leveraged windfall for rent seekers aligned with the state. Those not aligned will be punished. The Spawn-Fuhrer was a piker!
“Energy superpower” is nice and vague, bafflegab to fool ’em again. They can say it and it sounds really good, but they’re not committed to actually -do- anything.
Meaning they’ll just keep importing cheap labour from India for Door-Dash and Timmies, keep banning things people find handy like plastic bags, and keep running the economy into the ground as hard and fast as they can.
Which we knew going in. I guess the Normies like pain.
Exactly. ‘Prince Charles’ pushed ‘Global Warming’ propaganda every chance he got, but now, suddenly, ‘King Charles’ is calling for Canada becoming an ‘Energy Superpower’?
Horse Poop!!
It’s bafflegab to fool ’em again for sure!
Having legislation in place by July first is a bit of a stretch.
Considering this I fully expect Carney is going to behave like he has a majority and invoke closure every time he encounters the slightest opposition.
He really has no idea how Parliament works.
Well, he did say at a rally in Kelowna, B.C. that he would not hesitate to use the Emergencies Act to force through his (WEF) Agenda.
I suspect there will be two different standards for energy projects. “Dirty” conventional energy projects like pipelines and petroleum projects will be required to get permission from every level of government, environmentalists etc. “Clean” energy will be forced through against the wishes of provinces and local municipalities.
Well, he did say at a rally in Kelowna, B.C. that he would not hesitate to use the Emergencies Act to force through his (WEF) Agenda.
Bring it. That will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for WEXIT.
The Liberals know exactly how parliament works. The NDP is in an existential financial crisis, no new funding, and every riding where they didn’t get 10%, no rebate of campaign expenses. I would suggest they may be as much as $5 million in the hole, or more, with no fundraising mechanism save unions. The NDP would vote for right to work legislation before they would cause an election.
Well, it’s important to remember the unofficial motto of the Liberal Party of Canada:
“Promise everything. Deliver nothing. Blame someone else.” (while siphoning off billions in taxpayer dollars for friends, family, business associates and themselves).
Smoke and mirrors. Just more green grift for him and his cronies.
Once i was a child then i grew up and people told me i was still a child.
Some people get it.
I imagine we’ll reach energy superpower status sometime shortly after Justin’s two billionth tree is planted. How’s that coming along, BTW?
As for how to get there, it’s simple, you just need a little Green Arithmetic. One 2MW turbine has an absolute minimum footprint of about 250 m x 250 m. That’s 16 turbines for 32 MW installed nameplate capacity per square kilometer. Canada is about 10M square km which is 90% sparsely populated, so 9M square km x 32 MW is 288 petawatts installed nameplate capacity. Since that’s about 29,000 times the total global electrical generation capacity it would definitely make us an energy superpower.
Now, seeing as how Canada went from 2300 MW installed capacity in 2008 to 13 GW installed capacity in 2018, we appear to be able to install 1,000 MW worth of turbines per year, so installing all of these turbines should only take us 288,000 years. At a cost of $1.3M USD per megawatt that will cost $3.74 x 10^14 or $374,000,000,000,000 USD (374 quadrillion dollars). Which is a steal at $1.3T USD, or a mere 60% of the country’s GDP, every year for the next 288,000 years.
For the sake of argument we’ll ignore minor issues like the 25% capacity factor, meaning you have to install 4 times the turbine nameplate capacity for even a semi-reliable source of electricity; the fact that when da wind don’ blow, da fan don’ go; who’s going to maintain the >3M wind turbines that will be installed on Ellesmere Island’s 200,000 square kilometers in February (not it!); the fact that the entire population of Canada will be employed by the wind turbine industry; and, if the government really plans on oil-free energy super-power-ism, the fact that this analysis should be revised to remove the 13.3% of Canada’s land mass made up by Alberta and Saskatchewan, since, face it, they’re going to be the 51st and 52nd states before we get two years into the government’s 288,000-year net-zero plan. Also there’s the minor problem of the country going bankrupt halfway through year one.)
As an alternative, someone could invent a turbine that runs off of obvious political BS, hook it up to a generator, install it on Parliament Hill, and power the entire planet from now until the heat death of the universe.
I like the cut of Trodwell’s jon
Jib ^^ lol
What a perfect image and narrative for Canada as it implodes. An inbred European idiot reading Librano platitudes about this and that, signifying nothing will change because it works for those in charge, and they don’t give two fu*ks about the disposable, replaceable population that keeps the grift going.
For our progressive comrades it is easy.
We shall become an “Energy Superpower” because they say so.
It is truly that simple in SIM World.
For the mark of any good Libtard,is that ability to believe 6 impossible things..Before Breakfast.
And as another Liberal MP,Liar extrordinare kept insisting” We just need to keep repeating “It” louder and faster.
Which is what CBC exists to do.
It’s one thing to quote a Liberal, but to put any stock in any promises they make that would reverse their agenda of purposeful destruction and impoverishment of the serfs would be like reporting on Lucy promising not to take away the football from Charlie Brown.
But amazingly, there are no shortage of simpletons that can’t/won’t learn.
The comments I read from Canadians regarding Canada as becoming an “energy superpower” were highly instructive. It seems your Canadian brethren and sisteren are VERY VERY uncomfortable with the word – “superpower”. They would NEVER want Canada to be a “superpower” of anything. It seems they prefer mediocrity…
That is why Canada celebrates mediocrity. Bronze is better than gold. Personal best is better than bronze, don’t ya know. Canadians abhor success. Just like French corruption, it is in our DNA.
As a point of interest. There are 3 Aframax tankers (100,000 ton capacity) loading at Westridge in Vancouver. The line capacity is about 120,000 tons per day. There are about 2 ships per day loading and leaving Vancouver. Puts the lie to Gilbeaut’s story about 40% utilization of Trans Mountain.
The market is there. We only need to feed it.
Paul Thomas
Why is it always that the world is at its “most dangerous” time in history? I thought that was Y2K, then I thought it was the war on terror, then I thought it was SARS , then I thought that it was the financial collapse, then I thought it was COVID, now it’s international trade and changing partners that threatens our very survival and is THE existential threat of our lifetime….only 5 short years removed from the COVID lie.
The agenda is for a green scam energy superpower brought to you by the corporatist state, a toxic blend of green theocracy and fascism. Taxes on real energy will partially pay for a debt-leveraged windfall for rent seekers aligned with the state. Those not aligned will be punished. The Spawn-Fuhrer was a piker!
“Energy superpower” is nice and vague, bafflegab to fool ’em again. They can say it and it sounds really good, but they’re not committed to actually -do- anything.
Meaning they’ll just keep importing cheap labour from India for Door-Dash and Timmies, keep banning things people find handy like plastic bags, and keep running the economy into the ground as hard and fast as they can.
Which we knew going in. I guess the Normies like pain.
Exactly. ‘Prince Charles’ pushed ‘Global Warming’ propaganda every chance he got, but now, suddenly, ‘King Charles’ is calling for Canada becoming an ‘Energy Superpower’?
Horse Poop!!
It’s bafflegab to fool ’em again for sure!
Having legislation in place by July first is a bit of a stretch.
Considering this I fully expect Carney is going to behave like he has a majority and invoke closure every time he encounters the slightest opposition.
He really has no idea how Parliament works.
Well, he did say at a rally in Kelowna, B.C. that he would not hesitate to use the Emergencies Act to force through his (WEF) Agenda.
I suspect there will be two different standards for energy projects. “Dirty” conventional energy projects like pipelines and petroleum projects will be required to get permission from every level of government, environmentalists etc. “Clean” energy will be forced through against the wishes of provinces and local municipalities.
Well, he did say at a rally in Kelowna, B.C. that he would not hesitate to use the Emergencies Act to force through his (WEF) Agenda.
Bring it. That will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for WEXIT.
The Liberals know exactly how parliament works. The NDP is in an existential financial crisis, no new funding, and every riding where they didn’t get 10%, no rebate of campaign expenses. I would suggest they may be as much as $5 million in the hole, or more, with no fundraising mechanism save unions. The NDP would vote for right to work legislation before they would cause an election.
Well, it’s important to remember the unofficial motto of the Liberal Party of Canada:
“Promise everything. Deliver nothing. Blame someone else.” (while siphoning off billions in taxpayer dollars for friends, family, business associates and themselves).
Smoke and mirrors. Just more green grift for him and his cronies.
Once i was a child then i grew up and people told me i was still a child.
Some people get it.
I imagine we’ll reach energy superpower status sometime shortly after Justin’s two billionth tree is planted. How’s that coming along, BTW?
As for how to get there, it’s simple, you just need a little Green Arithmetic. One 2MW turbine has an absolute minimum footprint of about 250 m x 250 m. That’s 16 turbines for 32 MW installed nameplate capacity per square kilometer. Canada is about 10M square km which is 90% sparsely populated, so 9M square km x 32 MW is 288 petawatts installed nameplate capacity. Since that’s about 29,000 times the total global electrical generation capacity it would definitely make us an energy superpower.
Now, seeing as how Canada went from 2300 MW installed capacity in 2008 to 13 GW installed capacity in 2018, we appear to be able to install 1,000 MW worth of turbines per year, so installing all of these turbines should only take us 288,000 years. At a cost of $1.3M USD per megawatt that will cost $3.74 x 10^14 or $374,000,000,000,000 USD (374 quadrillion dollars). Which is a steal at $1.3T USD, or a mere 60% of the country’s GDP, every year for the next 288,000 years.
For the sake of argument we’ll ignore minor issues like the 25% capacity factor, meaning you have to install 4 times the turbine nameplate capacity for even a semi-reliable source of electricity; the fact that when da wind don’ blow, da fan don’ go; who’s going to maintain the >3M wind turbines that will be installed on Ellesmere Island’s 200,000 square kilometers in February (not it!); the fact that the entire population of Canada will be employed by the wind turbine industry; and, if the government really plans on oil-free energy super-power-ism, the fact that this analysis should be revised to remove the 13.3% of Canada’s land mass made up by Alberta and Saskatchewan, since, face it, they’re going to be the 51st and 52nd states before we get two years into the government’s 288,000-year net-zero plan. Also there’s the minor problem of the country going bankrupt halfway through year one.)
As an alternative, someone could invent a turbine that runs off of obvious political BS, hook it up to a generator, install it on Parliament Hill, and power the entire planet from now until the heat death of the universe.
I like the cut of Trodwell’s jon
Jib ^^ lol
What a perfect image and narrative for Canada as it implodes. An inbred European idiot reading Librano platitudes about this and that, signifying nothing will change because it works for those in charge, and they don’t give two fu*ks about the disposable, replaceable population that keeps the grift going.
For our progressive comrades it is easy.
We shall become an “Energy Superpower” because they say so.
It is truly that simple in SIM World.
For the mark of any good Libtard,is that ability to believe 6 impossible things..Before Breakfast.
And as another Liberal MP,Liar extrordinare kept insisting” We just need to keep repeating “It” louder and faster.
Which is what CBC exists to do.
It’s one thing to quote a Liberal, but to put any stock in any promises they make that would reverse their agenda of purposeful destruction and impoverishment of the serfs would be like reporting on Lucy promising not to take away the football from Charlie Brown.
But amazingly, there are no shortage of simpletons that can’t/won’t learn.
The comments I read from Canadians regarding Canada as becoming an “energy superpower” were highly instructive. It seems your Canadian brethren and sisteren are VERY VERY uncomfortable with the word – “superpower”. They would NEVER want Canada to be a “superpower” of anything. It seems they prefer mediocrity…
That is why Canada celebrates mediocrity. Bronze is better than gold. Personal best is better than bronze, don’t ya know. Canadians abhor success. Just like French corruption, it is in our DNA.
As a point of interest. There are 3 Aframax tankers (100,000 ton capacity) loading at Westridge in Vancouver. The line capacity is about 120,000 tons per day. There are about 2 ships per day loading and leaving Vancouver. Puts the lie to Gilbeaut’s story about 40% utilization of Trans Mountain.
The market is there. We only need to feed it.
Paul Thomas
Why is it always that the world is at its “most dangerous” time in history? I thought that was Y2K, then I thought it was the war on terror, then I thought it was SARS , then I thought that it was the financial collapse, then I thought it was COVID, now it’s international trade and changing partners that threatens our very survival and is THE existential threat of our lifetime….only 5 short years removed from the COVID lie.