If you pony up enough money to the paleolithic set, maybe your project can go ahead.
Jonathan Wilkinson, a B.C. Liberal MP and a former federal environment minister, said today that “a number of things” would need to happen before the tanker ban could change, including discussions with the B.C. government and coastal First Nations.
Scroll down to see the Financial Post point out the errors in Eby’s arguments.
As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. Premier Eby’s objections to another Alberta pipeline are rooted in fallacies, not fact. The Carney government should recognize that and decide soon whether or not another pipeline to B.C. tidewater is “in the national interest” — which apparently is how you get a permit to build major projects in Canada these days.
Is a pipeline from Alberta to the BC tidewater in Carney’s interest? because that’s the only way it becomes a pipeline of national interest for Canada.
Even if it is in the Carney’s Interest, that doesn’t mean that any company will want to spend $2 billion or more to get through all of the processes and extortion required to get shovels into the ground without binding guarantees including substantial liquidated damages if it never starts earning, which is well within the realm of possibilities.
Carnage will announce a pipeline, but his government will introduce such stringent carbon taxes at the source, that no one will be able to fill such a pipeline.
Ah yes, the Shakedowns of B.C. – A proud peoples and from what I’ve been told faithful stewards of Turtle Island.
If you are headed in the direction of the FN owning the land, you might want to deal with them directly instead of working with a province that is losing the land. Like Wayne says, skate to where the puck will be, not where it is.
The shakedowns of BC will continue until morale improves…
“The ideological buffoon David Eby has opened the pandora box that may destroy Canada.
Now, Alaskan tribal nations is claiming rights to Canada’s resource projects because they used Canada’s NW coast at some point.
Makes them “aboriginal peoples of Canada under the Constitution Act”.
https://x.com/KirkLubimov/status/1991188027583131707
If you acknowledge they own the land, then they own the land and the resources therein.
Then by the same argument, the Russians own Alaska, since all the “natives” came from Russia.
And by extension, the Russians own the entirety of North and South America, including Greenland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_migrations_mercator.svg
L – If Trump jokes about Canada becoming the 51st State. It’s a political crisis. But if aboriginal tribes want to make a claim for owning part of British Columbia based on Canadian judicial rulings, the Cdn. Charter and the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous People. All we hear is crickets.
Those who can only hear the sound of crickets. Will end up eating crickets!
Well, when the non-indigenous people of B.C. are rendered homeless and have to apply for refugee status. Which do you expect Ottawa to donate to the food banks: salmon or crickets?
The political irony of Canadian land I B. C. being ceded by judicial decisions to America citizens from Alaska is satire, you could not make up. While British Columbia is being discombobulated from within. Are there any indigenous groups from Siberia that will make a claim or two?
Funny thing is…..UNDRIP is in conflict with the Constitution. It really has no foundation. Anybody who owns lake front property in BC is in their sights. When I was involved in picking pipeline routes, we stayed away from lakes as much as we could because the Indians would tell us the lakeshores are “sacred” (meaning, we want money) because they traditionally took their sick down to the lakeshore to heal and when they died, they would bury them there.
Lots of stories like that….we were putting a pipeline in around Whitecourt years ago and we had to clip the corner of a reserve. Of course, the Chief and his sycophants said that the area we were proposing to go through had “sacred” (there’s that word again) plants in the area and it was going to cost us huge wampum. In order to miss the corner of the reserve, we would have to do two extra road crossings and required more pipe bends. We knew how much wampum they wanted (I guess “sacred” plants do have a price) and calculated the cost for the reroute. We decided even though the reroute cost somewhat more it would be best to avoid the reserve and eliminate all the nonsensical demands we knew would come. So we called the Chief and said we wanted to talk to them about the line. They insisted we come up to talk to them…..so we walked in and pretty much the whole band was there and the Chief was all puffed up because he saw a big payday coming and wanted it to be announced to the band.
So we started off by saying that we understood their concerns about their “sacred” plants and we told them we didn’t want to disturb them and that we were going to route around the reserve. You could have heard a pin drop. After that, every Friday they would call and their compensation demands for their “sacred” plants kept coming down and down. That went on for about six weeks and we said, sorry, we have already ordered the pipe and the drills and our line was set.
It felt good.
Indians, Liberals…if they all got scalped, tortured or enslaved or some kind of combo, I’d laugh.
Environmentalists and Indians are to the Liberals (and the left in general) what Antifa is to the Democrats. Useful idiots that the Liberals can hide behind while they fund them up the wazoo. It is theater.
Today I was listening to Trump address the confab with the Saudi Prince (long speech, as usual, but never boring) and how his admin had reduced the approval process for projects (oil, energy, minerals) from years to mere weeks or days. AI? He encouraged companies to build their own electrical generationg plants and sell the extra juice. Meanwhile look a Canada. We are frikkin losers.
Just revive Northern Gateway that the dickhead Trudeau stopped 10 years ago. The Indians and everyone else was on board. The Indians were pissed off they weren’t going to get hundreds of millions in graft when the dickhead stopped it. Pass it as stand alone legislation, declare it in the national interest, and pass it notwithstanding the Charter of Rights.
Sure Money talks, as sanctimonious as they are everyone knows they want their cut of the comfy fur.
But riddle me this: Does Carney get more votes from Alberta to offset the BC votes he’d be losing if he approves of the pipeline?
Or does he waffle a lot and then tell Albertans, “Well I tried my best….”.
“(First Nations) don’t believe it’s in the interest of their region,” Kahlon said. “We made our position clear that we have billions of dollars of investments right now, real projects that are ready to go, and we don’t want to put any of those projects at risk.”
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So my question immediately is, what projects? You’d think we’d have heard something by now if they’re ready to go.