… during the press conference after nabbing Venezuela’s Maduro.
This is a HUGE problem for Canada, as every barrel of oil Venezuela adds would most likely displace a barrel Canada produces. How do I know? Because Canadian oil replaced Venezuelan production over the last two decades.
Brian Zinchuk: Trump’s takeover of Venezuela means Canada needs those west coast pipelines ASAP
Don’t believe me? Here’s Adam Pankratz in the National Post.
Adam Pankratz: Venezuelan oil could put Canada out of business
If sabotage of the energy industry doesn’t end now, we face impoverishment
I swear I wrote my own column a day before I saw his. They’re almost word for word in some parts.
The Canadian Oil and Gas stocks just underscored that concern this morning with billions in lost market cap.
Well CNQ / Canadian Natural is slightly higher than the Dec 16th low and so todays price action (down 3.50) could just be market noise when u take a longer term view.
Venezuelan production increases will likely be slow due to lack of everything but who knows how f’ed up the country really is and how aggressive the yanks will be at developing the oil reserves.
We live in interesting times
CNQ is into more than the oilsands. Remember, Venezuelan oil is heavy and a direct competitor to the oil sands. Watch Suncor, it is a proxy for the oilsands.
But there’s no business case for oil and gas pipelines, East or West, in Canada. I await for Carney to disagree, with more than just words.
I agree with much of Adam Pankratz’s opinion above, though I do think he sounds optimistic for both Canada and for Venezuela. I’ve read in the past few days some commentary on X about how much it will cost Venezuela to rebuild, and it’s looking like it’ll be more than a decade out, with costs near to $1 Trillion. The country can’t access that funding as long as the socialists are in power, nor before stability and capital markets return to Venezuela. At that rate we could see the next generation of EV’s being produced along with fusion power.
I think AB should build a pipeline to the Washington coast and export from there, even before continuing with the farce of negotiation with tier 2 Canada’s federal gov’t.
AB has 120 days to collect 177k signatures on a list to force a separation referendum. That will change things here. Venezuela will still be arguing over “who’s in charge” and who’s going to pay for this rebuild for the next year.
99% of what I’ve read about Venezuela’s 300 Billion barrels of heavy oil is fiction, and based on no understanding of how ruined Venezuela’s economy is, its infrastructure, its expertise in the oil business all moved away after the 2003 strike, was all destroyed by socialism since 2000 and the 2003 PDVSA strike. The only functioning aspect of Venezuela’s oil business is that US refineries are ready for it even while Venezuela’s export capacity is awol.
I was about to say the same thing. Venezuelan infrastructure is nearly destroyed. It has been allowed to degrade by incompetent chavez and maduro cronies. Fixing or replacing it is no simple task, it would take billions and years. They have no capital to work with, and any company outside of venezuela would stay away after having all of their property confiscated by chavez years ago. Those companies need restitution first and additionally they need to see venezuela restored to a reliable state in which their employees are safe and where investments can be made without fear of confiscation.
So Canada has lots of time. Of course, since it takes Canada years to do anything as well, they need to start now.
Concur
But right now the US has the ability to stop Venezuela from shipping oil to anywhere.
I wouldn’t under-estimate the oil services companies being able to increase production rapidly. Watch for this as the next “didn’t see that coming” moment.
Much of the extraction infrastructure was installed by US companies. I’m sure they can react quickly. The Venezuelan’s have decades of incompetence to get to this point. The Americans have decades of efficiency to bring to the oilfields. I predict huge production increases in less than 1 year.
Bad for Canada in the short term. I wonder what will happen if Canadian oil is stranded in Alberta and those transfer payment checks start bouncing.
I think USA oil companies are more likely going to find that the Venezuelan oil industry is in an absolutely disastrous state. Not a fixer upper but more of a tear down and rebuild situation. Not sure they’ll want to invest 10s of billions of dollars in a politically unstable country, especially with the current low oil prices, to quickly ramp up production.
The current standing joke … “What is the Spanish translation of Venezuela … Vietnam”
If I understand correctly , most of the Venezuelan oil reserves are located inland. If the US ever does occupy Venezuela , it will become very difficult or impossible to develop those resources if there is a popular uprising with over 1 million armed civilians.
Thanks, Brian, that’s almost as funny as the Freeland news.
The civilians in Venezuela have had enough of the commie fcks.
Cartels may be a problem, but the civilians just want to eat and oil revenue will help.
Come now, let’s not mock these brave Brianistas. Those proud armed millions will bring degenerate Gringoland to its capitalistically-enfeebled knees. Just ask Brian, he’ll tell ya!
The US is not interested (not even over the coffee machine conversation) in “occupying Venezuela”
The Bolivarian Circles / Circles Bolivarianos were tasked with defending the homelands from about 2003 and there was a large purchase by the Chavez gov’t (maybe 200k ?) of the same type of AK47 that FARC in Colombia uses (there’s a reason for that…) though I think the more violent group which were the Colectivos only had access to less than 10k of them, and they’ve acted primarily as local thugs, rather than a “popular uprising”
None of them are the equal of US Marines, for example. They don’t have enough food to keep them fighting in a real war for more than a short time period. None of them have military discipline or training. But they do have red shirts and Che berets. I met some of them when I was in Venezuela during winter of 2006. All of them talk a big game, and all were dependent upon gov’t handouts for food, and it is doubtful that’s changed in these past 20 years.
“over 1 million armed civilians” is the type of number used by high school students who are trying to sound important and get in good with the girl with big boobs.
bluddy
For once you are spot on!
Money is the greatest coward, the US may want to invest there, but the $ billions will come after the election and stability is brought back, the US may have the infrastructure expertise to rebuild (or teardown and rebuild as LC Bennett refers… but they don’t have the electricity to simply build and operate cracking for that heavy oil, nor secure pipelines. There’s at least 1 semi-built hydro dam for more electricity but that’s years from completion, they often have 8-10 hour electrical blackouts because 1 dam provides 70% of their entire country’s electricity, they don’t have export port capacity above 2 MBPD … it’s a long list. I think they’ll need $1 Trillion to get to where they should be, but socialism keeps those investments at bay.
They should be able to 2x current production in “about” a year, but beyond that will take much of a decade to scale up. Socialism ruined the country over 25 years. Maybe AB can have a pipeline to the Washington coast in under 10. I’m not certain on that last one though…
Never underestimate American ingenuity and know how. Yes, there’s challenges that need to be met and overcome, absolutely.
But, they get things done. The Americans NEED the oil, and, to keep it away from the Chinese. It’s a 2 for 1 win for the Americans.
Plus, consider this. They can redirect 1Million BPD to Gulf refineries shortly, away from China, and to your estimate, 2Million BPD in a year.
That’s 2Million BPD LESS required from AB.
Our national leadership has really screwed up. The hostility from national media and politicians has been heard all right. And Trump is saying OK, HAVE IT YOURWAY! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
There are no new pipelines, and, unless there’s a seismic shift in this country, will never be constructed.
Even if the CPC wins a majority, it will take 4-5 years for a pipeline completion. That’s a lifetime. This country will be impoverished long before that time.
There is a massive economic earthquake coming. Ontariowe and Qweebec most wrecked!
Marc
Thanks for the heads up. As I am almost 80T and eye sight does not improve with age, it just goes down hill. Soooo, one million, one million, one million, should now be able to meet and greet a big set. Pardon the repeats:-)))
Amen, Canadians are conditioned to things at the “speed of government”. Watch the private sector roll without 50,000
parasitesbureaucrats all trying to be important, justify their existence, grow their fiefdoms, and slow things down to make a career out of a project.Peter
Marx Carnage will fix things, no biggy for him, just send more money to the Nazis in the land of the Green Runt.
It takes years in Canada to do nothing, let alone anything.
That made me choke on my coffee. So apt, so true.
Some prescience and insight on this, well done!
Will US oil companies invest hundreds of billions in Venezuela when they could invest that money in the U.S. drilling for, and producing American oil?
Yes they most certainly will.
They will be incentivized by their government.
Where? They have exploited the easy oil for the last 120 years.
What’s left to go after for resources?
ANWR is just an expansion of existing resources.
Offshore California? They’re already a more hostile environment but charging Newsome with crimes and extracting him at midnight would be most welcome, wouldn’t it?
No, nowhere can match the vast oil resources in for the Orinoco fields. Not even close.
This was a geopolitical play as well. It’s a finger in the eye of China and Russia. Long range weapons were being planned for Venezuela that could reach the US.
Narcoterrorism smashed.
And then there’s the whole Smartmatic voting machine issue, that seems to be based out of the country as well.
Canadian pointy heads can wring their hands all they want over the challenges of rebuilding the oil infrastructure to maximize export production taking time to ramp up. But, never underestimate the Americans to repair and deliver.
They’re not Canadians, they ARE productive.
Right now, they can deliver 1Million BPD. Redirected from China, to the US gulf refineries. That’s 1Million LESS BPD required from Canada. Yeah.
It speaks volumes about how badly Carnage and the Clown Show have screwed up. How Canada is now viewed as a hostile nation. What a screwup. No more leverage that the Hunchback thought he had.
Just wait until USMCA is torn up later this year, and the US runs hard over us. Deservedly. We ain’t seen anything yet.
Act hostile, get treated with hostility. Thanks Carnage. Thanks Thug. Thanks Drugstore Dave.
Hope y’all bought PMs before they exploded higher.
Sea
You thanked the wrong ppl it’s the stupid voters you should thank.
Some tried tell them vote PPC, that may have shaken the CUCKservatives out of their stupor, and try telling the IDIOTS in here, Bronfmans control the libtards, and through back room shenanigans they also manipulate the CUCKs.
“Just wait until USMCA is torn up later this year, and the US runs hard over us. Deservedly. We ain’t seen anything yet.”
100% correct, BTS. And as you say, we very much deserve what we are about to get.
I wasn’t at all surprised to see Carney pulling the “Elbows Up!” and “We will fight the US and make them back down!” SCAM to get elected. He knows that most of Canada are Liberal supporters. He also knows how well TDS sells to people gullible enough to be Liberal supporters. He was well aware that Canada had virtually NO trade leverage to ‘fight’ Donald Trump with, and that he would end up in DC within a week of the election *on his knees* begging for forgiveness.
Mark Carney knew all of that. It was all planned beforehand, and worked out exactly as expected.
What I *was* surprised to see was Pierre Poilievre falling so easily for Carney’s scam and embracing the ludicrous “Elbows Up!” tactic himself. I knew right then that Carney would win.
Gilbert Doctorow’s warning to Russia , China and Iran applies equally to Canada as it is now apparent that USA will do anything to maintain it’s hegemony and will not allow (or attempt to allow) any military or economic competitor.
… sure would be nice to have developed pipelines in the last 10 years!!!!
” To be an enemy of the US is dangerous , but to be a friend of the US is fatal” … Henry Kissenger
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/lessons-from-trumps-kidnapping-of
Lessons from Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro for Russia, for Iran, for China
Gilbert Doctorow
Jan 05, 2026
Lessons from Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro for Russia, for China, for Iran
Once again, I am appreciative of the wake-up call I received this morning from the Indian broadcaster NewsX World asking for me to comment on air on Donald Trump’s latest statement reversing his initial support for President Putin over the Ukrainian drone attack last week on his countryside residence in Valdai. Now Trump says he does not believe there was an attack.
Regrettably, I conclude that this flip-flop is directly linked to what the United States perpetrated in Venezuela over the past weekend when it kidnapped President Maduro and his wife and brought them to New York to face charges on ‘narco-terrorism.’ This heinous act violates international law and establishes Trump’s USA as a rogue state, ready and seemingly able to use brute force to maintain its global hegemony. It was brought about by the closely coordinated actions of Washington’s ‘power ministries’ of State, Defense and the CIA during several months. It would now appear that these power ministries are running the show in the USA for which Trump is the front man.
Let me speak directly: given the free rein that the CIA enjoys in this administration it is entirely reasonable to assume that they, alongside Britain’s MI6, had a role in planning and carrying out the Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s residence and for this reason Trump has decided it is wiser to deny that such an attack ever occurred.
I have used the words ‘rogue state’ above. The meaning of this term in the civilized world normally is heavily pejorative. But we must recall that precisely ‘rogue state’ is how one of the key theoreticians and promoters of Neocon ideology, Robert Kagan, husband of the notorious fomenter of the Ukrainian armed conflict with Russia Victoria Nuland, spoke about his country with pride and encouragement in books and lectures going back seventeen years or more when he was an adviser to Senator John McCain. We were aghast at this war mongering back then. What can one say now that we see it in daily practice?
There are lessons to be drawn from the events of this past weekend that the leaders of Russia, China and Iran will ignore at their own peril. As Deputy Chair of Russia’s National Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev has been saying for months, the USA is not capable of negotiating much less respecting any treaties or other state to state obligations that it signs. Perhaps some people did not want to draw the proper conclusions when Trump ordered the bombing of Iran’s major nuclear installations in the midst of negotiations to resolve the confrontation over the country’s nuclear program. Now this latest outrage committed in Venezuela leaves no room for doubt that the USA is a double-dealing card cheat on a level we have not seen on the world stage since Hitler’s seizure of the Sudetenland in the run-up to WWII after concluding an agreement with Chamberlain that we now recognize as a classic case of appeasement.
Yes, we are in the antechamber of WWIII and this should focus minds in Moscow, Beijing and Teheran. Attempts to flatter, deal reasonably with Team Trump are futile and counterproductive. If President Putin continues the charade of the ‘peace talks’ supervised by Trump then he will be making a terrible mistake that puts the fate of his country in jeopardy. If China does not respond appropriately, meaning forcefully to the seizure of a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil it had paid for, then China also will be jeopardizing its future. As for Iran, their continued existence as a sovereign state is almost as vulnerable as was Venezuela’s and it is high time that they reach out to conclude a mutual defense treaty with Moscow.©
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2026
Holy crap.
complete BS
Standard TDS tripe.
Always interesting how selling illicit drugs to other countries using government infrastructure is never considered a “heinous act [that] violates international law and establishes [insert country here] as a rogue state”.
If I was China the last thing on my mind would be “seizure of a tanker containing Venezuelan oil” just after the Americans had seized an [alleged] drug-king who was selling the oil.
Whoever this Doctorow retard is, he writes like AI slop. He’s against “warmongering” and then calls for China to directly attack US Naval vessels.
Brian, why don’t you get your own blog so it’s easier to ignore you? And learn to use the possessive apostrophe correctly.
RE:
… “China not responding forcefully will jeopardize its future”
Xi has run out of time, money, and support.
The once highly competent Comintern has been walking dead for years,
its scavenging nations future-less.
All that the world required was a competent leader to illuminate their nest,
with a blow torch.
Witness the wanna-be leaders of the worlds’ Left
whose complacent, totally naïve (“the right side of history”) and incompetent desperation
has been on display since Barak O’Rama, their high-water mark for intelligence.
The heavy responsibility rests with We The People;
… stop being so damn nice, which is merely cowardice
… throw your grifters out
… teach English and History
… run for office
The future of the West is bright.
Brain
FO, with communist propaganda.
Doctorow? Is he related to F. Scott FitzGerald?
If Trump wanted access to massive amounts of crude to refine, Alberta is by far the better and more natural option over Venezuela. So why would Trump then slap a tariff on Alberta oil and go after Venezuela?
Some might suggest that he was trying to balance a trade deficit with Canada, but that makes no sense. Alberta oil refined in the US is then sold on world markets, helping the US to balance its overall trade deficit. Further, Trump would just be replacing a trade deficit with Canada with a trade deficit with Venezuela.
Trump was putting an end to any attempt by Venezuela, Russia and China to build and finance a friendly relationship so close to American soil.
I think there were half a dozen reasons why he overthrew Maduro, that being one of them.
But if what you say is true, then Diaz-Canel (president of Cuba) has to feel nervous. Trump claims the Cuban regime will fall on its own, but as Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela have shown, dictatorships are tough to bring down through popular uprising alone.
If I was the president of Cuba I’d be walking around in handcuffs, just to be ready. And always clean underwear.
Cuba doesn’t have oil.
They’ll be left alone to stew in their own juices, as they pose little to no threat.
GITMO remains secure, on Cuba, after all these decades.
Like Canada, the US can isolate hostile nations and indirectly make life hard for the anal rententive
IMHO Trump didn’t slap a tariff on Alberta, Trump slapped a tariff on a key money-maker for Ottawa. It happens to be in Alberta.
Another example of bad federal “leadership” destroying the generation of wealth within the national borders. Which is a reason for signature collection and sovereignty referendum in the near future.
I suspect the reason Trump slapped tariffs on Canadian oil was to increase domestic production, same as most of his tariffs. But incentivizing Canada (or part of Canada) to join the US might also have been in the back of his mind.
Killer unME
Actually Trump just wants kanada to fail, and it is doing that, in spades.
First, get my moniker right.
Second, everyone tells me that Trump puts the US first, last, and always, and never mind the consequences to other nations. Now you say he actively wants to punish Canada? I doubt it.
Don’t get its pronouns wrong NME, the poor critter might start crying to the hall monitor.
And ByTheSea clocks in with the his usual vacuous insults.
Always a pleasure.
Hey, not even Bill Clinton gets his moniker right all the time. And vacuous insults are only made more effective by mooing about them.
“I suspect the reason Trump slapped tariffs on Canadian oil was to increase domestic production, same as most of his tariffs. ”
I suspect you are correct.
“But incentivizing Canada (or part of Canada) to join the US might also have been in the back of his mind.”
IF he wasn’t just trolling, I’d go with ‘part of Canada’ (the Alberta-Saskatchewan part), since the last thing he wants or needs is 20 million new Democrat voters.
Trump ain’t trolling. Not only has he repeated it at least a dozen times over the last year, his advisors have said it.
He has also said he wants Greenland and Panama to join the US, and no on accuses him of trolling on those occassions.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/05/jesus-enrique-rosas-open-letter-to-leftists-maduro-n2423539
Here you go Brian, I think this was written for you.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Am I a bleeding heart leftie? Give your head a shake. My concern is about the Canadian oil industry. And there will be very real ramifications for it, and Canada, depending on what happens in Venezuela. For the last 15 or so years, we have been eating their lunch, as it were. Now, that’s likely to change.
It was meant for Brian 2025- I thought I hit reply but I guess not,
Where do your elbows go now, Brian? Trump has outwitted, outlasted, and outplayed the “nice” Canadians. So now what? Close your borders to Americans?
And do you even hear yourself talk? You’ve been “eating the lunch of the Venezuelan’s for the last 15 years” … while the actual people of Venezuela don’t have food to eat for lunch … breakfast or dinner. So every bit of your personal morality is SO centered on AB oil … that you don’t give two fkcus about a people suffering under the boot heel of a Socialist despot and his socialist despot pals? You gleefully PROFIT at the losses of those silly ‘brown people’? SMH unreal.
You are anything BUT ‘Canada nice’.
I wonder if he fears dyslexic zombies?
C Mindless
Hawkins, Jobs, Branson, Bell, Both Wright bros, da Vinci, all dyslex, as am I.:-)))
Kenji, I don’t believe Brian was dancing on the graves of Venezuela. Some country was going to deliver product when Venezuela couldn’t. That’s just capitalism, right?
And now, the worm turns. Canada is the hostile nation, the US has heard that and said OK, WE DON’T NEED YOU EITHER.
Can’t speak for Brian, but, I’m happy for the Venezuelans and can see the earth move too. Canada is being shoved aside, it’s what this country’s leadership wanted, right? Right? After all, it’s what they have been very vocal about it.
Carnage has stated “our relationship is over!”
Message received, okey-dokey.
Words have meaning but actions speak louder than words. Canada just got fooked, deservedly!
You all know how much I love Canada, Canadians and esp. the Prairies. I want nothing but the best for Alberta and the Oil patch. But your Frenchie leaders in Ottawa are killing you. And they are bent on killing your relationship with America … at least until another election can be stolen and a leftist puppet installed. I’m sad for that. But don’t blame me because I voted for Trump 3x. Because THIS is what I voted for.
BTW … Dow currently UP 750 points! To an all time high of 49,131 points. I’ve lost count of how many record highs for ALL US stock market indexes since Trump 47 took office. I guess bitch-slapping Western hemisphere communist dictators is … good for business?
Man-o-man … I bought the DIP … but should have kept on buying the dollar cost averages as the Dow went back up. I failed to buy it hard-enough.
No argument from me, plenty to agree on there.
You know, for all the vitriol from the eLbOwZ uP crowd, you can bet those boomer retirees have a solid part of their investments in US blue chip corporations, directly and indirectly via index funds and etfs.
The typical eLbOwZ uP moron is as hypocritical as the day is long. This is modern Canada, these people hate the US, but can’t do without their American truck, their Yankee Starbucks, their Levi’s or Walmart.
When confronted, they just get that glazed look in their eyes and sputter accordingly.
If we ever had the chance I’d enjoy tipping a beer with ya, or spilling some of Napa’s product, just for fun.
^^^ IDK … when sufficiently lubricated … I get even MORE opinionated and talkative! But the good news is that I’m always a happy drunk, never an angry one 🙂 ^^^
… don’t forget Sonoma’s product too! And some lovely vistas.
https://www.sonoma.com/blog/sonoma-county-wineries-with-beautiful-views/
Don’t cry for Canada, its over, done, finished. It is in the death spiral on it’s way down the drain, not even the most inspired leadership could fix it, so badly it has decayed. Take total debt, public and private at 300% of GDP, it’s just math. It isn’t a fixer upper, it’s a bulldozer and start over.
“I’m not sure what you mean by that. Am I a bleeding heart leftie? Give your head a shake. My concern is about the Canadian oil industry.”
And you possess a wealth of information on it, as evidenced by your posts here. You will be a valuable addition to the new Republic of Alberta. 🙂
to Alan Greg …
Nope not me … you assume incorrectly.
Canada should have become an American territory or state. Now we’re Venezuela
Why can’t Alberta build refineries for that heavy crude instead of relying on pipelines that may never be built.
How would you export the refined product?
1) I think people are under the impression that Alberta (and Saskatchewan) don’t have oil upgraders and oil refineries. They do.
2) As you pointed out, pipelines are needed regardless if its crude oil or gasoline. Lack of pipelines is the problem. Pipeline optimization and export by rail are used to alleviate the problem but building more pipelines is the best solution.
Joe, you export it to the US, which has a strong and growing economy, therefore demand.
Also, Alberta refineries would be newer, more state of the art, and more efficient than the ones in the US, would they not. That has to give Alberta a leg up.
I also read a while back that some Gulf Coast refineries were nearing the end of their lifespan without super costly investments in upgrades.
The US produces lots of light oil, and exports significant amounts of it since many of their refineries are built for heavier oil.
So there wouldn’t really be a US market for more light oil from Alberta.
,The market would be for finished products like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, etc.
Lupus
The US has lots of gasoline diesel etc.
Until they don’t. I’m talking about the future here, given that Alberta needs a workaround to the economic destruction being foisted on it by the Federal government.
Whatever the product is (crude or refined fuel), you need a path to export. For Canada it is to the west (no), to the east (no) or to the south. The southern route just got more complicated.
Extend that same thinking to the beef industry. The same reasons apply to both.
There aren’t hamburger stands at feedlots because the quality downgrades rapidly after production, and that’s not where the market is. Similarly, you don’t butcher the cows in the field while they’re still warm because of the risks of contamination. Smart businessmen pick the optimum locations for things to minimize waste and cost, and maximize profits. If you force them to follow political dictats instead of their business model, expect quality to decrease and price to increase.
Because exporting finished product is expensive, hard and dangerous. Add inefficient. Refineries are built close to end users, or at least close to tidewater if not. That isn’t an accident.
Au contraire! Here in CA … those refineries close to the end users are being sued out of business by teams of eco attorneys paid-for by the taxpayers of CA. The State will soon have NO oil refineries … because oil is filthy, and kills poor inner city child asthmatics. SMH
Peter, almost all finished product goes by land to the end users, often great distances, because many aren’t close to refineries or tidewater.
the Industrial Carbon tax is the first reason that no new refineries will get built, followed by the insane requirements to appease the tribals and red-greens at climate change canada.
Brian:
Yes and no – obviously there’s a long term issue for Alberta here but, in the short term Iran can ramp up production a lot faster than Venezuela can and they won’t displace Alberta oil as easily. Meanwhile we probably have about ten years to re-establish ourselves as trusted suppliers. Can we do that? Of course – but only if we put Ottawa in its place, and out of the way, first. So, in that vein, here’s a bit from my submission to the Alberta Next Panel:
1 – When Biden unilaterally cancelled the Keystone II expansion project various players sued for compensation but all were denied largely because the Trudeau government sided with Biden et al. The Trump administration could be asked to revive Keystone II through an executive order defining the line as a national security priority while setting permits and processes on the American side to the status quo ante and agreeing to a fair financial settlement of past claims to be paid out when and if, and only then and if, the project enters service within a short time period such as 21 months.
Notice that this would include free movement of the people, products, and services needed to build, test, and operate the line – thus strengthening the Trump administration’s position just before the new NAFTA negotiations begin, giving Ontario premier Ford and Prime Minister Carney – both of whom recently won elections by running against Trump – the metaphorical finger, and all while further ensuring American energy security and creating nearly 30,000 temporary jobs, (and another 3,000 or so permanent ones) mainly in the western states.
While most of us would welcome the KS project to restart, consider that at this juncture, Trump is not going to do Canada any favours whatsoever. That looks pretty clear.
That’s part of negotiations now, right? Full Court Press on Canada.
Look how muted and feckless Carney’s response was to Venezuela.
We can despise Carney all we want, but, he is a smart man, though he is wrong often.
I believe he now gets that he has lost his leverage. LOL.
“Trump’s takeover of Venezuela means Canada needs those west coast pipelines ASAP”
Silly Brian. Get with it. Its 2026 and oil is soooooo passé! Its all about renewables, and we lead the world in the exportation of wind.
And all that wind is hot air, so global warming must be real.
Wind or flatulence?
Jamie
“we lead the world in the exportation of wind.”
Now that had me laffing hard, yup our political class are blow-hards.
“No Delta Force for Oil”
We need an updated WW Socialist, International ANSWER placard since very little actual blood was spilled.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/answer-coalition/
Canada can become a big, cold park with the foreign tourist’s choice of Cousin-fcker, Beach-shitter or Spear-chucker as guide.
So … I can get a bus tour driven by a Singh? Oh well … Canada is a beautiful place to go. Go permanently.
Too much panic. Venezuelan oil has always been in the stream and has essentially been free for countries like Cuba, China and others. They still need the oil but will now have to pay for it. It will take years for Venezuelan oil to increase production and it has a specific purpose given it is heavy sour.
“If sabotage of the energy industry doesn’t end now, we face impoverishment.”
It is at this point that I feel moved to mention that the people sabotaging the Canadian energy industry are doing it deliberately, for money, and the faster said industry comes to ruin the more money they make.
That’s why the media airwaves are filled with liars lying about oil, about pipelines, about wind/solar, about electric cars, about #TheDonald, and about immigration, Brian. (Brian Zinchuck, not the paid troll.)
It’s a scam. You want a pipeline, and I want a pipeline, but we are not going to get one until the money gets followed and the scammers are pitched into a nice snug jail.
The question I have for the Canadian oil industry is this: given Venezuela coming back online as the deadline, would it be possible to get a pipeline built and running before then? Or, God forbid, a refinery? This assumes a miracle happened and the government allows guys to stick a shovel in the ground.
Can it be done? What would it take? And most importantly to me in far-away Ontario, who would have to go to jail before we could do it?
A very good X post, “open letter”:
https://x.com/Knesix/status/2007960824783003721
Business-wise, I think Trump gets 2 birds with one stone: 1) access to the biggest oil reserves in the world 2) bankrupt Canada so hard that the only move left for Carney will be to just throw the towel.
And for #2 he’s pushing even more with the renewed interest for Greenland.
We should have been the 51st state right from the beginning, right after Civil War. Latest good faith offer was at Mar-A-Lago w PM Blackie but sadly, Castro Jr was too dumb to understand that Canada has a very short ‘best before’ date. Now Carney will be forced to accept whatever just to avoid total disaster.
Yup.
Any leverage Quasimodo thought he had just evaporated over the weekend.
That worm is squirming now.
Canada is fooked. More than ever!
The Black Fag always wanted Canada to become impotent and powerless, basically a K-bec vassal state, a continuation of Pegger Pierre’s policies.
What those two puckered pores didn’t count on was the obvious – American destiny.
The Marxist father’s arrogance and the silly son’s ignorance have brought us here.
And the Traitorous Trudeaus and their fcking followers have actually imperiled K-bec in the long run and hastened deconfederation.
Elbows Up and arses hanging in the wind.
Becoming a petro state would have held off 51st statehood, but they were blinded by their anti-Canadian evil.
K-becers are going to get a lesson for their perfidy.
Ontario will become a Beach-shitters paradise.
Nobody cares about the east, except for Newfoundland.
I love it.
Don’t you dare call my narcissistic homosexual effeminate Muslim ex-President a Black Fag!
He was talking about Justin, not Obama. Obama is evil but competent. Justin is the ultimate coulda been a blowjob and every single person would be better off.
Speaking of the Trudeau family … I’m reminded what Mick thought of political climber Bianca …
https://youtu.be/ptDz5BwAgXQ?si=u7oGE6y4RkUObXTS
”… easiest lay on the White House Lawn.”. Phew! She went for Jack Ford, Gerald’s boy on the White House lawn … but then had to go slumming in Canada. Hahahaha ha ha. Sorry. Not sorry.
Canadians see problems, whine about it, and then plea in a submissive manner for their King and his government to do something about it.
Americans see opportunity in problems. They capitalize and invent solutions, then they get to work.
One theory that is floating around is that Trump has made an agreement with Putin and Xi that the US will consolidate it’s now multipolar influence to the Americas, leaving “Ukraine’s loses” to Russia, and Taiwan to China. Given that NATO’s intentions triggered Russia in securing its back yard, the US is doing the same thing with Venezuela by preventing the other two from establishing essentially what NATO was attempting. Ethics and morality have got SFA to do with declining empire strategy.
John
We’ll never know until tomorrow!
That grand bargain has been obvious for months to all but those who will not see.
It’s called realpolitik, and the euroweenies really get the sodomizing they so richly deserve.
The question that should be asked and answered by the Circus Carney is if he will allow Alberta to build a new refinery to take up the slack created when additional heavy oil starts showing up in gulf refineries. Currently that number is around 700k bpd, but will eventually reach back up to 4MM bpd if the oil companies are allowed to build up Venezuela’s oil production economy.
We all expect that the answer to that question will be no, based on Carney’s positions and that of his envirowitch of a wife.
We can also expect him to botch the CUSMA negotiations, since he is now in a worse position than a week ago.
All the direct and indirect recipients of federal transfer payments thanks to Alberta’s O&G industry must be pooping their pants with a mix of fear, rage, glee, indecision, greed and hatred.
They’ll be unable to decide between cheering big losses to Alberta, which they hate, or groaning at the resulting loss of transfer money, which they love.
Fred Z
when Santa dies!
SDA’s resident under-medicated and over-lubricated octogenarian NMGEH911 needs to take a nap…a dirt nap.
The often quoted size of the Venezuelan oil reserve is an artifact of Hugo Chavez’s propaganda. Sure, more could be discovered, whatever.
Not to be an ass, which I frequently am… but,
Oil, oil oil oil, oil oil, oil oil, oil oil oil, oil, oil oil oil oil, oil oil oil oil, oil, oil, oil oil oil… oil.
I’ve probably pissed you off but please recognize when you’re getting wound up. Look at the birdie (this wasn’t about oil) PLUS a stressor. For Carnie? No; for the western provinces. Highly motivating. Wouldn’t you agree?
Lots of infrastructure already here, beautiful proximity, favorable trade if not intranational removal of taxes fees etc. Look at Alaska. They’ve got their own deal up there and it’s pretty good (excellent compared to Alberta).
You’re not screwed, you have an irresistible opportunity. Sign that petition ASAP. The sooner you hit the number, plus overage, the better. The bigger the momentum the greater the success.
God’s Speed.