If bc ndp just stepped backed a d stopped playing political games this zombie line would of been dead long ago .
Ironically after Trudeau, horgan and Eby continued to give breath to this dead line for political gain, Carney will be the one to kill it as the further left cry how conservative he is .
zachem62 on
TMX could be expanded further, but that isn’t necessary. It’s only operating at about 75% capacity. If existing pipeline capacity isn’t even fully utilized, it’s hard to justify building an entirely new pipeline.
Edit: Turns out I had outdated info. TMX is now running near capacity and expansion is already underway. Having said that, the new spike in oil demand still isn’t enough to justify a new pipeline.
mukmuk64 on
It’s been very clear this entire time the bc government has been pointing to TMX expansion as the real path forward here. The BC government has been through this before and knows that stonewalling doesn’t work, but so it’s clear the strategy has been to guide people to something that will.
Similarly it’s what the Alberta NDP have also suggested.
Not surprising that the Feds are now putting up the trial balloons around TMX expansion. The Feds aren’t stupid and they would realize that Northern Gateway 2 is never going to happen and presumably this is outcome they’ve been hoping for this whole time. I mean I have no doubt that the Feds would be delighted if somehow there developed a political path for the northern route but they would realize the odds of this appearing are slim.
So we’re going to have a win/win here where the Feds will get their pipeline, bc ensures that the status quo remains in the north, and Alberta’s conservatives still still get an injustice with which to rage against the Feds. The only loser are the tsleil-waututh and other Metro Vancouver FNs who the Feds already showed they were happy to ignore last time.
bandersnatching on
Anyone – including China and India – who wants to pay for a pipeline from Alberta to Southern BC following essentially the same regulatory regime as TMX, and to build a terminal, has the green light, and yet no one is stepping up. Not the provinces or industry. What does that tell us?
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GirlCoveredInBlood on
I don’t understand the obsession with a northern route. The TMX corridor already exists and we can build more capacity through there. without the hurdles of cutting a new path through lands of multiple first nations and running tankers up the north coast and into the douglas channel
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If bc ndp just stepped backed a d stopped playing political games this zombie line would of been dead long ago .
Ironically after Trudeau, horgan and Eby continued to give breath to this dead line for political gain, Carney will be the one to kill it as the further left cry how conservative he is .
TMX could be expanded further, but that isn’t necessary. It’s only operating at about 75% capacity. If existing pipeline capacity isn’t even fully utilized, it’s hard to justify building an entirely new pipeline.
Edit: Turns out I had outdated info. TMX is now running near capacity and expansion is already underway. Having said that, the new spike in oil demand still isn’t enough to justify a new pipeline.
It’s been very clear this entire time the bc government has been pointing to TMX expansion as the real path forward here. The BC government has been through this before and knows that stonewalling doesn’t work, but so it’s clear the strategy has been to guide people to something that will.
Similarly it’s what the Alberta NDP have also suggested.
Not surprising that the Feds are now putting up the trial balloons around TMX expansion. The Feds aren’t stupid and they would realize that Northern Gateway 2 is never going to happen and presumably this is outcome they’ve been hoping for this whole time. I mean I have no doubt that the Feds would be delighted if somehow there developed a political path for the northern route but they would realize the odds of this appearing are slim.
So we’re going to have a win/win here where the Feds will get their pipeline, bc ensures that the status quo remains in the north, and Alberta’s conservatives still still get an injustice with which to rage against the Feds. The only loser are the tsleil-waututh and other Metro Vancouver FNs who the Feds already showed they were happy to ignore last time.
Anyone – including China and India – who wants to pay for a pipeline from Alberta to Southern BC following essentially the same regulatory regime as TMX, and to build a terminal, has the green light, and yet no one is stepping up. Not the provinces or industry. What does that tell us?
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I don’t understand the obsession with a northern route. The TMX corridor already exists and we can build more capacity through there. without the hurdles of cutting a new path through lands of multiple first nations and running tankers up the north coast and into the douglas channel