Danielle Smith meint, dass der Ausbau von Trans Mountain nicht ausreiche, Kanada brauche neue Ölpipelines
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-danielle-smith-says-trans-mountain-expansion-not-enough-canada-needs/
Danielle Smith meint, dass der Ausbau von Trans Mountain nicht ausreiche, Kanada brauche neue Ölpipelines
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-danielle-smith-says-trans-mountain-expansion-not-enough-canada-needs/
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>“These talks about eliminating the ban on oil tankers off our coast have taken place without anyone from British Columbia at the table. Like many British Columbians, I learned of these talks through a news article,” he said. “First Nation leaders, whose support is required to move any project forward, were also unaware and excluded from these talks.”
This is really all we need to know to understand that the Liberals‘ claims that BC’s support is necessary weren’t made in good faith. If they were, then Eby would have been aware of these talks, considering that Alberta and Ottawa are *allegedly* moving close to some agreement.
Yet again, we’ll have something foisted upon us that our Government opposes, for the benefit of Alberta, and it *won’t be enough*. It will *never be enough*.
And when a tanker runs aground and coastal fisheries are devastated for years, even decades, it will be the BC economy that ultimately suffers for it. And in the interim between now and the inevitable disaster, it will be Alberta that reaps the majority of the benefits; save for the shareholders, of course.
I am just going to say something here..
The United States of America is the #1 producer and consumer of oil barrels a day. Around 3-4 MILLION barrels a day more than even Saudi Arabia.
Canada is #4 out of 195 nations for oil barrels produced a day.
What comes with that in the real world is that O&G has a lot of power when it comes to government influencing policy in their favor and in creating societal narratives.
Alberta is going to have to diversify in both economic and energy frameworks. Diversification doesn’t happen overnight. This is a process that takes around a decade if not longer.
Doing nothing but compounding and compounding exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbon energy isn’t going to create a multidimensional framework for the future in regards to energy and economics.
This is without even talking about the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis and how bad that has gotten.
When it comes to this and some other subjects in governance right now we all need to be speaking a whole lot more substantive and analytical because this is very serious stuff.
I’m obviously an environmentalist myself but I think what I have written above is pretty just objective reality and hopefully something we can all agree on.
Can Daniel Smith lay out the transit demand forecast that supports the need for the BC northwest coast? If TMX can be expanded by 40%, that adds a lot of extra capacity.
Trans Mountain Express is a expansion of the 1950s trans mountain pipeline. From a quick encyclopedia check: it’s 300k/b o.g. + (590k/b) to 890k bpd expansion + 40% (I see 200-300k/b quoted more often) by „optimization“ (more pumps + better dilution) :
1.1-1.2 m bpd Crown super pipeline.
This whole debate needs to be elevated by giving a better picture of how transit matches production and „energy transition/end game carbon pulse realism“ demands.
Going through mostly intact Rockies is the *worst direction* for East/West/South/North options environmentally.
If we’re gonna become the strategic long term provider we better be getting something *real* (sovereign wealth) or real geostrategic gains from I’m assuming Korea, Japan and China. China will never see this as a *strategic source.*
I have my prediction about what the real „PCO red file“ is & why the strange Alberta – Ottawa detente is forming: *sovereign* Frontier mine (crazy and unlikely but strategically sound)
Diesel runs the world. Decarbonization happens through massive diesel burning. Heavy oil = diesel + jet fuel. The last two hydrocarbons to be phased out. Even Paris 2015 acknowledges they will never be phased out fully.
Carbon pulse realism points to: Canada is the last Petro state standing. My gut is: triple, quad TMX and stand up „railway style“ police to keep it strategically sound and protected from threat. Leave the NW BC alone. Study the absolute max throughput possible and action that.