CBS- Saudi Arabia executes 81 people in its largest mass execution
Coulda Had A Pipeline
“Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refused to take Biden’s call as he sought increased oil production to help lower gas prices in the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ostensibly, the snub relates to a demand for support against Iranian proxy terrorists, but it goes deeper than that on both ends. . .
Related: … the U.S. is in a commodity crisis that is giving rise to a new world monetary order that will ultimately weaken the current dollar-based system and lead to higher inflation in the West.
Drill Baby, Drill
For the first time in history, a U.S. city has hit an average gas price of $5 per gallon.
San Francisco $5.06/gal
Los Angeles $5.01/gal
https://t.co/KGqHA9ii64— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) March 3, 2022
Russian Road Trip
Aris Rousinos over at UnHerd had a good essay at the end of January on what we’re seeing unfold today in the Ukraine.
UnHerd- Putin’s next move, a shock and awe campaign could overwhelm Ukraine
And in case you missed it earlier this morning O.J. had a good piece from Victor Davis Hansen as well.
Putin’s Predictabilities- It is easy to predict what the Russian president will do in any given situation. Biden is making it easier for Putin to act with aggression.
“as 5 new American projects, including expansions to existing facilities, are to be greenlit in the next 2 to 3 years”
If you think the vandalism and violence witnessed at the CGL pipeline isn’t an economic hostage taking, similar to the yahoos who shut down our border crossings, give your head a shake. Let’s look at how hard and fast Canada has fallen when it comes to LNG investment.
The US was behind Canada when it comes to LNG planning a decade ago. Now it has lapped Canada many times. While we struggle to build one large scale LNG plant, the US and world have moved on.
In response – Its not rocket science. This is an example of many Gofundme accounts they operate & continue to receive funds from to pay for illegal activity. Millions have been raised over the last decade by Eco Activists. They use our language& sacred terminology to get taxpayers to send money
“Bays 1, 2 and 3 were a total loss.”
“At that point, we decided to cut the building and saved the last two bays”.
h/t Rhoda
We Are All Treaty People
Except for those treaty people — Indigenous Resource Network;
We conducted a professional poll in May with Environics looking at Indigenous people living in rural/reserve communities and their attitudes to resource development. Indigenous people in BC had the highest support for oil & gas development of any province – 65%.
BC First Nations have been discussing the pros and cons of natural gas and CGL for YEARS. There have been referendums, multiple election cycles, negotiations, consultations. And hard work to train community members and build business structures in order to benefit properly.
It’s difficult to watch “allies” talk about supporting Indigenous sovereignty & rights but dismiss the majority who want that development.
You don’t have to support natural gas. But maybe think about how you’re using the Wetsuweten Nation to further your agenda, not theirs.
How Do I Donate To This?
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Shoulda hired Hunter.
End Of Oil
Who needs pipelines, Oil is dead – right?? RIGHT?? 🙄#CanadianPipeline#LateForDinner#SaveTheTrainsForGrains pic.twitter.com/DPMKhGIYrl
— QuickDickMcDick (@QuickDickMcDick) August 9, 2021
The anatomy of compromise
Another hard lesson learned when you think you can successfully compromise with people whose ultimate goal is to destroy you.
But last week more than 500 organizations across Canada and the U.S., from Environmental Defence to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contending that ‘carbon capture’ would actually delay the transition away from fossil fuels and ultimately increase CO2 emissions.
“Carbon capture is a dangerous distraction,” the letter states. “We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050.
But in this scenario, researchers say some fossil fuel-dependant economies such as Canada would actually see fewer energy jobs.
Because most of those eight million jobs would be in manufacturing wind turbines and the like, and not in actual energy generation. And nobody sane is going to manufacture that crap in high cost jurisdictions like Canada. It seems they’re just figuring that out now.
You know, there’s a Nobel Prize awaiting the first economist who successfully explains to mainstream journalism that when a system creates “eight million more jobs” than would be otherwise required, it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient, and that vastly less efficient translates into vastly more expensive for consumers and industry alike.
Good luck keeping manufacturing plants in northern latitudes when winter heating costs go through the roof. Adios Amigos.
(There’s a lesser prize awaiting the first person to explain why there’s a hyphen between “fuel” and “dependant”).
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Mark Carney
In Poilievre’s woodshed.
h/t Nancy Ross
Gretchen The Great
Michigan’s warrior princess! The threat that by May 12, Gov. Whitmer will shut down Line 5 to Ontario, is so beautiful an issue it should be hanging in an art gallery.
DO IT.
Great Moments In Engineering
h/t and commentary from Adrian;
End of an era in so many ways
It (Discovery of Brent) was responsible for building Europe not the UK , the whole reason that the experiment of Europe supposedly succeeded was because it was bankrolled by the UK’s oil and gas, plain and simple it could never have happened without it. Meanwhile the UK gave up any idea of sovereign wealth funds or becoming the Saudi Arabia of Europe.
The whole fucking lot squandered on a miserable ungrateful set of communist wannabe politicians.
“Thank you very much for filling up with us today”
Give Them What They Voted For
Not “could”, Premier Moe. The word is “will”.
Godspeed, Gretchen
Fuel shortages loom in Ontario, Quebec if Michigan’s governor succeeds in shutting down pipeline
Ontario politicians are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of thousands of job losses in the coming months and fuel shortages in the province if Michigan succeeds in shutting down Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline.
The mayor of Sarnia, a southern Ontario city that’s home to three refineries and multiple petrochemical plants, says the city faces potentially 5,000 job losses as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has served Enbridge with notice the state is cancelling a decades old easement allowing its Line 5 pipeline, which runs from Western Canada to Michigan and southern Ontario, to cross the Straits of Mackinac through the Great Lakes.
Western Canadians can send a note of support and encouragement to the Governor here.
h/t Buddy
I Want A New Country
Life under the surrender of law;
J.J. Ruest, the president and CEO of CN Rail, said in a statement Tuesday the railway has no choice but to temporarily shutter “significant” parts of its network because blockades by Indigenous protesters near Belleville, Ont., and New Hazelton, B.C., have made train movements in the rest of the country all but impossible.
“We are currently parking trains across our network, but due to limited available space for such, CN will have no choice but to temporarily discontinue service in key corridors unless the blockades come to an end,” Ruest said.
Ruest said the protests threaten industry across the country, including the transport of food and consumer items, grain, de-icing fluid at airports, construction materials, propane to Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and natural resources like lumber, aluminum and coal.
Anthony Furey: A judge warned us in 2013 that endless blockades were coming to Canada
So the courts have ruled that the protesters must leave. It’s the job of the police to enforce the law. But the police have instead made a choice to not enforce the law and are instead “monitoring the situation” and “maintaining a dialogue”. Meanwhile, the Ontario Solicitor General’s office, which is responsible for the OPP, shirked responsibility by simply telling Postmedia that “the Minister cannot direct police operations”.
This is far from the first time law enforcement in Ontario has failed to do their job. In fact, an Ontario Superior Court judge even issued a stark warning several years ago about what would happen if this contempt for court injunctions on the part of the police continues.
I trust the gun rights people are watching and taking notes.
All this as Shiny Pony hopscotches around the globe with his personal photographer, throwing money from the plane.
On protests back in Canada, @JustinTrudeau says: “I’m encouraging all parties to dialogue and resolve this as quickly as possible.” pic.twitter.com/OWn5CucZgQ
— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) February 12, 2020