Coulda Had A Pipeline

16 Replies to “Coulda Had A Pipeline”

1. “There’s no business case…”

   1. … when your communist government doesn’t ‘believe’ in business.

2. The Lieberals and their party member Bureaucrats have been at war with Alberta, and specifically its oil and gas industry, since 1968. Under normal circumstances fuel prices in Kanada would be less than America. But the Lieberal’s war took away the required infrastructure needed to make it possible.

   1. correct, correct, aaaaand correct. and the ones who are out BILLION$ are . . . . are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      the ones who have VOTED for these policies even *before* 1968.
      l can proudly say l detested TURDeau 1.0 right from the start. he stank of arrogance.

3. One more example of how this post national state is circling the drain thanks to the low information, elbows up loonie tune left . All of western canada should pull the pin before it’s too late .

   1. Whoa whoa tabernack!!! Alberta and Saskatchewan need to go our own way. Maybe some of the Alberta adjacent parts of BC could join later as they’re prrety decent folks but NOT the coastal weirdos or those Manitoba commies.

      1. Oh, I agree! I have posted previously that I have moved to Ottawa to be closer to family as I age (specifically my daughter as she is my executrix). I loved living in Calgary (until Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor) and I loved living in Regina. Winnipeg was my first stop on the road trip to Ottawa. It has definitely gone downhill since the early 1970’s when I was at the University of Manitoba. The municipal roads are in dreadful shape and the whole downtown core is one giant Indian reservation. Anything which the NDP touches turns to crap.

      2. allow me to suggest the border be made the ridge running the applicable length of the Rockie Mountains.

4. I’ve been playing around with AI and asking various platforms an interesting question.

   “How does Alberta benefit from its position as a province in Canada.”

   The responses have been interesting. They all (including Grok) manipulate my question and end up listing benefits to Canada for their continued presence, and not Alberta individually. When I pointed this out, their baseline benefit was that Canada provided a stable trading base and influence in foreign markets. They, also, said that Alberta is provided with national defense. My response to that was that the national defense is, almost, non-existent and dependent on other countries. And, the trading influence of Canada at present is negligible and declining. More importantly, Alberta’s primary resource is traded south to the US in a majority fashion.

   Finally, after about six back and forths, the general response from all these AI platforms was that currently Alberta receives much less that it provides, and there could be an argument that the cons of remaining as Canadian province outweigh the pros. It was an intersting back and forth, and I didn’t even touch on equalization contributions.

   1. So, Orson, with respect, why would you waste your time? Did AI tell you anything you didn’t already know? Did you expect them to? Are you surprised at the manipulation?

      1. The point was curiosity, mostly. BUT, I wanted to highlight the hyperbole and rhetoric of bias sources and challenge them. AI is programmed to focus on specified sources that reflect the position of those that coded the platform. Ultimately, those datasets are bias in their own right. HOWEVER, when you challenge AI with facts they seem to dive into a defensive mode until you corner them.

         That’s when the truth comes out. They don’t censor other view points, it seems. They just make them a lower priority and depend on apathy of the inquirer to not pursue the discussion.

         In short, all the focus these days is on what AI can do. I decided to focus on how to USE AI. Plus, I’m easily amused and like screwing with bias viewpoints.

         1. Interesting.

            Thx for the explanation.

   2. See my post under the heading Welcoming our New Self- driving Overlords …
      Pretty well summarizes it.

5. See. We don’t need extra pipelines as no one wants the oil.

6. Even some Abidiginals (Zoolander quote) wanted to build the “Spirit Bear” oil pipeline but other Abidiginals and filthy scum sucking Liberals fought it.

   Shithole.

7. Most reading here will have been born after the oil crisis of the Seventies. That was when the leaders of this country both cons and libs should have decided that we shed ourselves of outside oil dependency and created our own oil industry from extraction right through to the neighbourhood gas station. Can you imagine the position we would be in today? Look at the wealth created in the Middle-East countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Libya and Iran, all brought about by a single exportable product. Meanwhile here in Canada we can export wheat, uranium, timber, coal, etc., etc., etc., and our standard of living has dropped off the curb and is rushing to the sewer. We have been and continue to be the laughing stock of the world , but “Elbows Up, Eh!”. Never underestimate the ability of a Canadian politician to turn a diamond back into a lump of coal.