Recent content by darwink

Wanted to go faster, gain experience with modular.

In fairness the climate emergency thing was both in policy on Gondek’s website and mentioned at one of the big debates. The pride of timing it had following the election was a big misstep.

^BC does not want nor need Alberta gas for LNG. The benefit is less competition for capacity down alliance and the mainline, and head office jobs/profit attribution.

The ranks of all the polls align no? I wouldn’t call that all over the place.

Built and abandoned. Pretty unclear what would be salvaged. They’d have to do a detailed survey, after it has sat in the ground presumably unpressurized and without active corrosion protection. If somehow this came back, it would likely require special executive orders on both sides to turn...

From Janet Brown/CBC

Yeah, the city can buy it if they want to.

Pipelines can go fast. Especially if you ignore local jurisdiction.

It is a defence strategy. Clearly it is a Presidential Act, and the President new about it all, because it is all documented and public.

If they keep improving at the rate from this one to the triangle site, they’ll be pretty nice soon.

The context I've heard about is the americans want certainty on regulatory matters around minerals and mining, so it comes up as a counter point. The americans want an american process for american owned mines in Canada, and canada points out if the reciprocal was true, Keystone XL would have...

They're illegally deploying the national guard in Oregon to stop 'terrorist attacks' on ICE, another step in regularizing federal direct control in defiance of law.

If it ‘buys’ the pathways project to reduce ghgs and insurance against the USA deciding not to buy oil anymore it can make sense.

With what the USA is doing, it is pretty important to both keep the country together, and ensure we have the resources to stay independent. Carney in his book wrote that Chretien had three goals, keep Quebec in, keep the Americans out, and never have domestic decisions dictated by the IMF and...

And so did Trudeau. And yet... The full quote says more: “We will not impose a project on a province. We need consensus behind these projects and we need the participation of Indigenous peoples. What’s encouraging from the First Ministers’ meeting in Saskatchewan is that many provinces came...