Breaking….
NEB recommends approving Northern Gateway pipeline #cdnpoli
— David Ljunggren (@reutersLjungg) December 19, 2013
Subject to 209 “conditions”….
Update: the report is available here, but the site is getting slammed.
What If We Could Be Russia For A Day?
I mean, just, just, just one day.
…the U.S. foundations include multi-billion dollar activist organizations, built of fortunes from the Fords and Rockefellers, the Hewletts and Packards, that dwarf anything that exists in Canada. As if that didn’t provide them enough advantage, the U.S. foundations act in concert, deciding among themselves what the priorities for the nation and beyond should be, the better to concentrate pressure. There is no two-way street – U.S. foundations can and do routinely influence Canadian policy; Canadian foundations can’t and don’t influence U.S. policy. The U.S. influence, moreover, is all the more powerful because most Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests, to further a U.S. agenda.
Oh, Frack
Oh, Frack
@ezralevant he also states the "smell of methane". Methane has no odour
— Angus Scott (@angusbeef14) December 4, 2013
“Procedural error” update at the Telegram:
NOTE: Through an editor’s error, the letter that follows did not go through The Telegram’s normal verification process, and we have subsequently been unable to reach the individual who sent the correspondence to The Telegram. The Telegram regrets the error.
Free Ethical Oil!
…when high-profile anti-Keystone and anti-oil sands campaigners need cash, they go where the money is-the big U.S. charitable foundations that have become ATMs for scores of groups and organizations that now earn a living fighting Canada’s oil industry. […]
In all, Ms Krause has uncovered $3.2-million in new money distributed by Tides USA in recent months, tax-free dollars delivered to groups and organizations with specific objectives aimed at disrupting and fomenting opposition to Canadian energy development, including pipelines east and west. The recipients include the usual suspects–Sierra Club, Environmental Defence, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (the list with details can be found at FP Comment’s Web site).
To the unaware it might appear that these groups represent some kind of groundswell of opposition within Canada and abroad to oil sands development and to the Keystone XL pipeline. If these groups are active, they must have a lot of on-the-ground funding and backing. Looking at the Tides grants, however, suggests there is no such groundswell. What we have, on the contrary, is an elaborate taxpayer-subsidized scheme to manufacture dissent.
h/t Rob
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Because There’s No Such Thing As “The Canadian Vote”
An affiliate of Houston-based NET Midstream LLC has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build and run a pipeline delivering Eagle Ford Shale natural gas to Mexico.
The company’s NET Mexico Pipeline Partners LLC has a long-term agreement to transport 2.1 billion cubic feet of gas per day with MGI Supply Ltd. a unit of Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica, Mexico’s state-owned gas company.
h/t John Galt III
Oh, Frack!
Glenn Reynolds interviews Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Frackers.
Mr Premier, Tear Down Those Windmills
Canada “should be proud” of its status as an energy superpower, says Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, and to claim that status the country needs to be able to move those resources across the country to meet the demands of its global customers.
In an interview with CTV’s Question Period, Wall said Canada “needs more pipeline capacity,” to move oil and natural gas to ports on either coast.
Wall says projects such as TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline will move oil to ports where it can be shipped overseas, which will also help suppliers get fair market value for their product.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Free Ethical Oil!
Published this month in the Journal of the Blindingly Obvious: Pipelines pose fewer risks for workers and less spills compared to transporting oil by rail or truck.
Thank you, Malaysia
NUSA DUA, Indonesia – Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Bali for an Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit Sunday bearing what could be called a $36-billion vote of confidence from Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company.
Update, link fixed….
What, they never watch television?
A young Finnish female activist is a vegan and unable to eat prison food, Paikacheva said, adding that prison officials had denied her request for vitamins to be delivered to her.
Several non-smoking activists also complain of being placed in cells with chain-smokers.
First world problems.
Maybe now they understand just what the Ezra meant when he wrote, Ethical Oil.
Keystone Pipeline, Or, Godwin’s Law In The US Congress
Dem senator: “The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler”
I Amuse Myself
Smoldering shadow of former self, Neil Young, blames oilsands. MT @BCheadle Neil Young likens oil sands landscape to Hiroshima. #softball
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 10, 2013
It’s Probably Nothing
Leaked transcripts of a closed-door meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan shed an extraordinary light on the hard-nosed Realpolitik of the two sides.
Prince Bandar, head of Saudi intelligence, allegedly confronted the Kremlin with a mix of inducements and threats in a bid to break the deadlock over Syria. “Let us examine how to put together a unified Russian-Saudi strategy on the subject of oil. The aim is to agree on the price of oil and production quantities that keep the price stable in global oil markets,” he said at the four-hour meeting with Mr Putin. They met at Mr Putin’s dacha outside Moscow three weeks ago.
[…]
The Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a “dramatic turn” in Syria. Mr Putin was unmoved by the Saudi offer, though western pressure has escalated since then. “Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters,” he said, referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier.
Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be “no escape from the military option” if Russia declines the olive branch. Events are unfolding exactly as he foretold.
Via Zerohedge. (h/t Robert of Ottawa)
Fracking With Nukes
Premier Brad – call your office.
Canada’s Professional Protesters Exposed
Ezra Levant hosts a 45 minute exposé on the childish, extremely ignorant, hypocritical, anti-progress foot soldiers of Canada’s Radical Left:
Ethical Oil: Program Note
PREVIEW: Ezra Levant crashes an anti-oil protest
Oh, Frack! (EXCLUSIVE)
Via a source in the Canadian energy industry;
… at least four crude IEDs have been discovered at Pennsylvania gas wells near the Susquehanna River. Anti-fracking groups are suspected.
I can’t provide a weblink for this so keep an eye out for stories as they emerge.
Meanwhile, search “The Anti-Fracking Pledge of Resistance” and “Earth First!” for a backgrounder on this movement.
Emphasis mine.