21 Replies to “Churchill, hand wringing and, oh yeah, Eby”

  1. Governments have been making press releases about developing the Port of Churchill for years.

    Something will happen after California finishes its high speed rail network.

    Meanwhile, consultants will make lots of money conducting studies. And they’ll refund some of that taxpayer money to the Liberal government via political contributions, and brown bag lunches.

    1. All the way back to 1689 when the Hudson’s Bay Company set up shop. Back in the 1980’s a precursor to Goebbels Network pulled some old archives on Churchill. This was because another study on the feasibility of Churchill was underway. The document from the 18th Century said, “give Churchill more time…”

  2. Churchill: Slow train, bad tracks, no highway, Frozen half the year with lots of Polar Bears. Excellent place for a port.

    1. Exactly, but I’d bet that ice will disable it more than half the year. As I understand it, those train tracks are on muskeg and permafrost and are constantly shifting and needing repairs. Not the safest way to move oil, and pipelines in muskeg and permafrost are little better. The Alaska oil pipeline had to be built above ground to escape some of that, and the oil had to be heated so it wouldn’t gel solid in the winter.

      Churchill makes no sense.

      1. “Churchill makes no sense.”

        Agreed….there seem to be too many negatives and no positives. This appears to be just more political theatre.

        1. The fact that it makes no sense explains why they want to build the port: permanent jobs and grift. Things that work are expected to work and there is a political cost for failure.

        2. This is all irrelevant, smoke, mirrors and gaslighting. This statist gang is incapable of the grand projects they pretend to envision, a $30B bump from their already obscene budget lie, as the PBO pointed out.

      2. The only way it makes any sense is it your build the worlds longest bridge, with the piers driven into the Canadian Shield.

        Much in the same way one of the proposed High Speed Rail projects was going to be run on a guideway, because otherwise they need to grade separate hundreds of crossings.

  3. Let me see native provincial government with a native run crown(so called) corp with a big budget equals party time in gay paree for years to come.
    Nothing will happen, money will dissappear port will fall apart. Fingers will be pointed and newspapers will blame everyone but and wabbie will sale off into the sunset with his Caribbean bank account stuffed with cash.

    2. Eby’s promise should be greeted with laughter. He plans to preserve 30% of the province and hand control of natural resource extraction over to the natives.

      I’m thinking instead of a future based on natural resources he’ll give us a provincial economy resembling Venezuela’s.

  5. Any need for the Port of Church is for resource exports from provinces denied access to salt water by communist premiers. Manitoba has a communist premier so nothing will ever happen. No legitimate business will risk getting in bed with commies.

    An unrelated thought. In 150 year old photographs Indians all looked distinctively Indian, like a Chicago Blackhawk. Nowadays they look akin to Greeks or Italians. Did the French and Scottish fur traders chase more fur than they bought?

    2. ” In 150 year old photographs Indians all looked distinctively Indian, like a Chicago Blackhawk. Nowadays they look akin to Greeks or Italians.”

      I remember 20 or 30 years ago (back when I still watched TV news) being confused by a story from Ontario about the Mohawks being involved in some kind of protest or altercation. I saw all these blond, brunette and red-haired people being interviewed and wondered where the actual natives were…

  7. The oil is in Alberta.
    Churchill Mb. is North and East.
    The markets are West and South-East.
    Seems counterintuitive to run any PL in the opposite direction to where those markets are.

  8. Carney and the western green communist Premiers are to economic development what the Three Stooges were to intelligent discourse. Boowoopoopoop…..

  9. Eby should take a drive up Hwy 37. The northwest transmission line was built 10 years ago. It supplies power to Red Chris mine and the village of Iskut. It also connects the Forest Kerr run of the river power generation to the grid. There are many proposed mines in the area but only one is operating off the NWTL. Brucejack Mine ran it’s own powerline from Terrace. Two other mines have been bogged down in paperwork for years. Look at us go. We’ll be rich in no time.

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