I just want our media and political discourse to focus on other parts of the economy other than oil pipelines, mines, and LNG terminals. Why can’t we talk about helping our small businesses scale, or increasing innovation in biotechnology, or making our capital markets function better? Why can’t we talk about new graduates having to go to the USA to find a good white collar job?
One could be forgiven for thinking we are a developing country by paying attention to our discourse. It’s always one or two more pipelines and we’ll suddenly have a real economy!
CDN-Social-Democrat on
I imagine the situation is more and more going to look like Texas and some other Red-states:
Alberta and Saskatchewan are some of the best places in Canada for Solar Power, Wind Power, and Battery Technology.
We will see culture war nonsense pumped while it gets more and more implemented.
Then in the future everyone that was against it will pretend they were never against it.
bugaboo-14 on
Yes we do. Our use of oil is not going away anytime soon. EVs are too expensive and inaccessible. Oil is used for everything more than it used to be. Including clothes
warriorlynx on
I saw we need to bring back the NEP but something more suitable instead of the disaster that was, use oil revenues to fund mass green initiatives as quickly as possible including SMR nuclear reactors and make Canada very much self-sufficient.
awildstoryteller on
I still support a cross Canada pipeline- have the feds pay for it if necessary, along with retrofits to existing refineries to ensure compatibility.
If insecurity continues in the Middle East, having slightly cheaper crude from Alberta might actually be a vote winner in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, but regardless it is unacceptable from a national security PoV for us to rely on the US and ME for fuel in the East.
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OneLessFool on
Canada needs more housing density, public transit, high speed rail, green energy, nuclear, electric vehicles, etc.
Demalab on
I am curious as to if you feel the current system of rail thru municipalities is safer? As a person who lives across the street from a rail line whose usage has gone from 3 trains of 20 cars in 24 hours to trains every 90 minutes of 100+ tankers, I am trying to determine where I should sit on the whole pipeline issue. I live on the outer edge of a small city in SW Ontario, there are at least 2 if not 3 train lines that dissect thru city with tankers.
Method__Man on
We need to build more oil infrastructure in the short term, which we can then use to finance green energy, housing, education, etc. in the long-term
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I just want our media and political discourse to focus on other parts of the economy other than oil pipelines, mines, and LNG terminals. Why can’t we talk about helping our small businesses scale, or increasing innovation in biotechnology, or making our capital markets function better? Why can’t we talk about new graduates having to go to the USA to find a good white collar job?
One could be forgiven for thinking we are a developing country by paying attention to our discourse. It’s always one or two more pipelines and we’ll suddenly have a real economy!
I imagine the situation is more and more going to look like Texas and some other Red-states:
Alberta and Saskatchewan are some of the best places in Canada for Solar Power, Wind Power, and Battery Technology.
We will see culture war nonsense pumped while it gets more and more implemented.
Then in the future everyone that was against it will pretend they were never against it.
Yes we do. Our use of oil is not going away anytime soon. EVs are too expensive and inaccessible. Oil is used for everything more than it used to be. Including clothes
I saw we need to bring back the NEP but something more suitable instead of the disaster that was, use oil revenues to fund mass green initiatives as quickly as possible including SMR nuclear reactors and make Canada very much self-sufficient.
I still support a cross Canada pipeline- have the feds pay for it if necessary, along with retrofits to existing refineries to ensure compatibility.
If insecurity continues in the Middle East, having slightly cheaper crude from Alberta might actually be a vote winner in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, but regardless it is unacceptable from a national security PoV for us to rely on the US and ME for fuel in the East.
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Canada needs more housing density, public transit, high speed rail, green energy, nuclear, electric vehicles, etc.
I am curious as to if you feel the current system of rail thru municipalities is safer? As a person who lives across the street from a rail line whose usage has gone from 3 trains of 20 cars in 24 hours to trains every 90 minutes of 100+ tankers, I am trying to determine where I should sit on the whole pipeline issue. I live on the outer edge of a small city in SW Ontario, there are at least 2 if not 3 train lines that dissect thru city with tankers.
We need to build more oil infrastructure in the short term, which we can then use to finance green energy, housing, education, etc. in the long-term