Stuff and nonsense. Bloody hypocrite.
— torchesandpitchforks (@torchesandpitch) June 3, 2018
Stuff and nonsense. Bloody hypocrite.
— torchesandpitchforks (@torchesandpitch) June 3, 2018
Rex:
How has it come to pass that our climate-change government in Ottawa is now in the pipeline-building business? How can it be that the world’s No. 1-ranking Paris summit champion against “carbon pollution” is about to get into the business of laying tubes to carry the dread product of the Alberta oilsands? As the melancholy Dane once phrased it: “This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.”
It’s all Kinder Morgan’s fault. It’s those damned Texans.
It ain’t that hard when you’re dealing with the dullest pencil in the box.
In a desperate bid to keep its last remaining proposed oil pipeline alive, Canada has decided to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline system for an estimated C$4.5 billion.
Canada will pay Kinder Morgan for the money that the company has already spent on the expansion project as well as for the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, which has a capacity of about 300,000 bpd.
Trans Mountain runs from Alberta to British Columbia and the proposed expansion would be a twin line that would triple the system’s carrying capacity to 890,000 bpd. British Columbia has vowed to block the pipeline even though the federal government supports the project. BC’s opposition had nearly killed the project…and still might finish it off despite the gamble by the federal government to nationalize the pipeline system.
As Reuters discovered, it appears that Canada has been taken for a ride by Kinder Morgan. The Texas-based pipeline company structured deals in such a way that it couldn’t lose, even if the project stalled. “Kinder Morgan cut creative deals with lenders and oil producers to shield itself from massive write-downs like the ones taken recently by rivals TransCanada Corp and Enbridge Inc in canceling controversial pipeline projects,” Reuters wrote.
1. Canadians deserve better than this:https://t.co/hhQYiSv49f
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) June 1, 2018
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Top Surgeon Says Violence in Sadiq Khan’s London ‘Like South Africa’, Predicts ‘Summer of Carnage’ https://t.co/9yTTp7mHKZ
— Jack Montgomery ن (@JackBMontgomery) April 21, 2018
What’s 50 million for scads of future Liberal voters? What a bloody disgrace.
The Liberal government is providing $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help ease a housing crunch caused by an influx of asylum seekers.
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen made the announcement on Parliament Hill today, saying the money is just a first instalment in a longer-term funding arrangement.
Quebec will receive the biggest share of the funding — $36 million — while $11 million will go to Ontario and $3 million to Manitoba.
The Banana Republic that was Zero and his henchman, Holder.
D’Souza went on to reveal no American in the history of the country had been charged, not to mention prosecuted, for doing what he did and said he believes Attorney General Eric Holder went after him for political purposes after he made a movie about President Barack Obama.
“These guys decided to make an example of me,” D’Souza said. “This was a vindictive political hit aimed at putting me out of business. Destroying my credibility, making it impossible for me to make movies, write books. In that sense it failed.”
“I’m very grateful to President Trump for giving me those rights back,” he continued.
— andrew paine (@andy111179) June 1, 2018