Admiral Beez
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Carney is looking at new pipelines.
But isn't the Transpacific pipeline under utilized?
But isn't the Transpacific pipeline under utilized?
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
....somewhere stuck between a gaijin and a weeaboo? >.<
guavadelic
Active Member
It's operating at about 85% capacity, and projected to reach full capacity by 2027.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Good stuff, and a rare example of the federal government preparing for when the existing pipelines are at capacity.
picard102
Senior Member
Nothing was twisted. Are you not aware of the facts, or just trolling?
Congrats.
zang
Senior Member
You went out of your way to not just write this egocentric soliloquy, but seek out an ignore GIF to insert into it. For what?
junctionist
Senior Member
We really need oil and gas pipelines through Quebec to the east coast to get our oil and gas to Europe. We need some tough and decisive leadership from Carney on the issue.
Quebec's historic obstructionism on the issue comes across as nonsense. Modern pipelines are safe and reduce the likelihood of Lac Megantic-style disasters. Quebecers would get good jobs in maintaining the pipeline and would benefit from the overall effects of national GDP growth resulting from investments in pipelines (e.g. more government funding available for projects in Quebec).
The pipelines aren't going to affect the world's transition to carbon-free energy, which will take decades if not centuries.
Quebec's historic obstructionism on the issue comes across as nonsense. Modern pipelines are safe and reduce the likelihood of Lac Megantic-style disasters. Quebecers would get good jobs in maintaining the pipeline and would benefit from the overall effects of national GDP growth resulting from investments in pipelines (e.g. more government funding available for projects in Quebec).
The pipelines aren't going to affect the world's transition to carbon-free energy, which will take decades if not centuries.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Agreed. And it's not as if Quebec isn't covered in pipelines already. I'm not sure how Carney can get past the Quebec government. More honey, less strongarm is the likely path.
Note: red lines are liquid hydrocarbons, yellow are gas.
afransen
Senior Member
A lot of these headcount increases are well beyond population growth, and if anything, technology should be making bureaucracy more efficient/productive. Maybe a lot of that has been plowed back into nonn-value added activities. It sure seems that there is scope to reduce headcount.It would be a good start.
Looking at the above, and considering the dramatic cuts to the study permits and TFW programs, hopefully we can cut back that 105% increase at IRCC.... but only after we process the backlog and remove anyone whose asylum claim has been rejected. We don't need an underclass of undocumented workers acting as a pillar of the economy.
It is for now. The expectation is that it will become fully utilized within a few years. There is some dredging required to allow larger tankers to load at tidewater.
afransen
Senior Member
I think there is a thought to upgrading/building a new rail line to a northern Manitoba port on Hudson Bay (Churchill or other) and using it to export bitumen as well as other resources like potash, grain, etc. Since the US does not need these resources...
And the idea that we won't have transitioned from fossil fuels for centuries is laughable. CO2 concentrations in the thousands of ppm will make breathing rather difficult on the planet.
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Admiral Beez
Superstar
Climate change will open up Hudson's Bay and the port of Churchill for much of the year.
I expect we'll have some way to remove CO2. If we don't, we won't be the first species to breed itself into extinction. At the end of the day, like with the dinosaurs, the Earth will still be here after we're gone.
junctionist
Senior Member
It might not happen in this century because you still have large parts of the developing world struggling to even get to the full array of fossil fuel-driven industries we have in the West in their quest for development. Just replacing coal with natural gas for power generation and industry will be a challenge in many parts of the world, including Florida apparently.
jje1000
Senior Member
At the minimum for domestic security concerns, pipeline capacity to Montreal's Refinery needs to be increased so that at least Quebec can be weaned off of foreign oil imports.
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Admiral Beez
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In exchange for agreement on pipelines, Carney needs to give Quebec something it covets more than jobs and money. Maybe drop any federal challenges to Bill 21 and Bill 96, for starters. Or, if money indeed talks, resolve disputes on infrastructure funding, including:
Legault's Quebec-NL power line proposal not in national interest: federal source
The project that Quebec Premier François Legault chose to present at the premiers’ meeting being held Monday in Saskatoon may not meet the criteria established by the federal government. In the days before the meeting, Legault announced he would ask Ottawa for at least $2 to $3 billion to build...
montreal.citynews.ca
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kEiThZ
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The developing world is moving faster on renewables and electrification than the developed world in many cases. They don't have legacy industries to defend and legacy infrastructure as sunk costs. See China at 50% of car sales now having plugs. Thailand swapping their Tuk Tuks to electric. Or Pakistan's completely unplanned solar boom.
North Americans have a particularly weird blindspot on this. Unlike Europeans we don't see Chinese EVs on our roads, so we don't understand how far they've come.
It may take centuries to full get off oil and gas. But even a lot of conventional forecasters have prediction of peak oil demand inside 10 years (by 2035). Some, like Bloomberg, have it inside 2030. And if you travel enough, you'll understand why.
This is also why oilbros have a hard time getting industry onboard with an East bound oil pipeline. Gas? Definitely. Oil. Hard sell. Industry can see how fast Europe is electrifying. And they can see the Chinese happily selling solar panels and EVs to Africa and Latin America.