The truth about who is behind the campaign to keep our oil landlocked.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Over a Barrel is a short political documentary about the work of Vivian Krause, and the questions she raises regarding U.S. foundations funding activism against the Canadian oil and gas industry. The supposed goal of this "Tar Sands Campaign", funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and other U.S. charitable foundations, is to fight pipeline approvals in Canada and stop Canadian oil from reaching overseas markets.
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All I had to see was that name, to know corruption was at hand.
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Yes, I've heard about her work following the money behind Canada's anti oil campaigns.
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All I had to see was that name, to know corruption was at hand.
Same here. Billionaires screwing workers.
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Prog billionaires are the reason Canada can't have nice things.
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Snakes.
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Snakes.
Rich progressives run Canada.
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Prog billionaires are the reason Canada can't have nice things.
Your mistranslation of "Rockefeller Brothers" into "progs" is probably the reason YOU can't have nice things.
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Prog billionaires are the reason Canada can't have nice things.
Your mistranslation of "Rockefeller Brothers" into "progs" is probably the reason YOU can't have nice things.
It's the prog billionares like those Rockefeller scumbags that bought our prog politicians is why we can't have nice things, but Dubai can.
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/overabarrel?fbclid=IwAR0Dgwmz-Xyg_Q1wqtlu8rnQTowolPwPuJtMedaDfvv13-fOB0QxIQdvLiQ
Prog billionaires are the reason Canada can't have nice things.
Your mistranslation of "Rockefeller Brothers" into "progs" is probably the reason YOU can't have nice things.
It's the prog billionares like those Rockefeller scumbags that bought our prog politicians is why we can't have nice things, but Dubai can.
It's not in the interests of the US to have other customers besides the Americans.
Oilsands can be part of an environmentally acceptable energy-based economy
By Graham Hicks of Sun News Media
The Aspen Oil Sands Project, Imperial Oil's $2.6 billion, new in-situ oilsands project will eventually produce 150,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). It is under construction.
Foster Creek Oil Sands Expansion Project — Cenovus — $2 billion, adding 40,000 bpd — under construction.
Lewis/Meadow Creek East/Meadow Creek West SAGD Oil Sands Projects — Suncor — $2 billion, around 200,000 bpd from different projects — proposed.
Narrows Lake In Situ Oil Sands Project — Cenovus — $1.6 billion — 130,000 bpd — proposed, currently deferred.
A quick oilsands refresher: There are two ways of extracting heavy oil (bitumen) from the oilsands, open-pit mining and in-situ.
Open-pit involves surface mining with huge shovels and trucks, primary processing plants and vast artificial lakes known as tailing ponds. Open-pit works when the oil seams are close to the surface.
In-situ does the primary processing underground using injected hot steam or solvents, then pumps the bitumen to the surface. This ingenious technology is also referred to as SAGD or steam-assisted gravity drainage. In-situ works when the oil seams are 100 metres or more underground.
There's plenty of both geological formations in the oilsands. Just using one or the other would last for hundreds of years.
The costs are about the same to construct and operate both. Even though profit margins have been reduced by pipeline constraints and slightly low world oil prices, new in-situ plants continue to be built. More than half the 2.5 million barrels of Canadian bitumen produced daily come from in-situ operations. What am I getting at here? Simple: In-situ is the way of the future. It's cleaner, neater, has a tiny industrial footprint compared to the open-pit industrial sites the size of downtown Edmonton. And there are no tailing ponds — that which drives the greenies crazy.
The regulators and the federal government can tolerate in-situ. It looks clean. It can lower its CO2 emissions more easily than the openpit projects.
It's way easier for all concerned to quietly approve and build dozens of smaller in-situ projects rather than rouse the enemy with one or two massive open-pit proposals.
Just add up the production if all the approved in-situ projects go ahead; another 1.5 million barrels of bitumen could come out of Fort McMurray per day, adding 60 per cent more oil to today's supply.
Obviously, some kind of climate change/resource development deal has to be made/will be made between Alberta and Canada — a compromise allowing the federal Liberals to get to their treasured zero emissions by 2050, yet still accommodate resource development.
Nobody's yet talking about the lower emissions per barrel coming from in-situ bitumen.
Nobody's talking about carbon capture, being touted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the third tool to lower global carbon emissions (after renewables and nuclear power). Alberta has two of the biggest carbon capture projects in the world — the $1.26 billion Alberta Carbon Trunk Line and the $1.35 billion Quest project.
Economically, nobody's talking about the Industrial Heartland. The mighty industrial zone outside Fort Saskatchewan has set a goal of attracting $30 billion of new capital investment from 2020 to 2030 and is already at $8 billion, thanks to two new petrochemical plants.
Between in-situ oil projects, carbon capture, and natural gas production we can keep growing our energy-based economy in ways acceptable to the new world in which we live.
And yes, Mr. Trudeau, ensuring more pipelines actually get built is a must.
Usually it's Trudeau fucking over Western Canada, now the frickin Saudis are screwing us too.
Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-07/saudis-plan-big-oil-output-hike-beginning-all-out-price-war
Saudi Arabia plans to boost oil output next month to well above 10 million barrels a day, as the kingdom responds aggressively to the collapse of its OPEC+ alliance with Russia.
The world's largest oil exporter engaged in an all-out price war on Saturday by slashing pricing for its crude by the most in more than 30 years. State energy giant Saudi Aramco is offering unprecedented discounts in Asia, Europe and the U.S. to entice refiners to use Saudi crude.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia has privately told some market participants it could raise production much higher if needed, even going to a record 12 million barrels a day, according to people familiar with the conversations, who asked not to be named to protect commercial relations. With demand ravaged by the coronavirus outbreak, opening the taps would throw the oil market into chaos.
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Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-07/saudis-plan-big-oil-output-hike-beginning-all-out-price-war
Saudi Arabia plans to boost oil output next month to well above 10 million barrels a day, as the kingdom responds aggressively to the collapse of its OPEC+ alliance with Russia.
The world's largest oil exporter engaged in an all-out price war on Saturday by slashing pricing for its crude by the most in more than 30 years. State energy giant Saudi Aramco is offering unprecedented discounts in Asia, Europe and the U.S. to entice refiners to use Saudi crude.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia has privately told some market participants it could raise production much higher if needed, even going to a record 12 million barrels a day, according to people familiar with the conversations, who asked not to be named to protect commercial relations. With demand ravaged by the coronavirus outbreak, opening the taps would throw the oil market into chaos.
With oil prices taking to the economic impact of the coronavirus, how low will oil go.
The price of oil is collapsing.
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Shen Li's comapny's stocks lost half their value today.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has called for financial support from Ottawa to ride out the perfect storm of collapsing oil prices, a Saudi-Russia price war, rail blockades and years of damage caused by the Trudeau government that has devastated the province's economy.
Alberta has always been there for Canada and has contributed mightily to our national prosperity, including infrastructure in Eastern provinces. When it needs help, I believe all of Canada must respond.
The men and women who work in the oil and natural gas sectors, whether in the Prairies or offshore, deserve our respect and support through these incredibly difficult times. They are not looking for handouts, but just a fair chance to succeed without being held back by a federal government that is hostile to the development and sale of our nation's resources.
Bills C-48 and C-69 that have effectively blocked the shipment of all future oil and natural gas exports from major fields to our major trading partners.
Canada and the world need more oil and natural gas produced from Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Newfoundland and Labrador, not less; energy that can be ethically produced by world-class companies using the most advanced Canadian technology and in the most environmentally responsible and sustainable way possible.
Justin Trudeau has failed to help Canada get our oil and gas to global markets where it can command the best possible price and contribute to the fight against climate change, especially our LNG which can significantly contribute to the worldwide effort to reduce reliance on coal.
He has also failed Canadians by blocking the expansion of oil and gas pipelines to the East—the safest means of energy transportation—so we can all benefit from a low-cost, reliable, secure and Canadian source of energy. We need to achieve complete national energy independence without the importation of foreign oil. Shipping it around the continent via the Panama Canal is costly, risky and is not a long-term solution.
It is a failure of national leadership to forgo the development and export of our nation's energy assets that are in use by virtually every human on the planet and will be for the foreseeable future. If not our energy, whose? Russia? Venezuela? Saudi Arabia?
Canada has the dubious distinction of being the only country rich in energy resources whose government's policy is to keep most of its wealth buried forever.
"Ottawa's net debt is headed for the previously inconceivable level of $1 trillion," which is $105,000 for a family of four. That crushing burden means years of higher taxes, reduced social spending and less help for the provinces, which are on the front lines of our health-care system.
Now is the time to focus like a laser on growth and fiscal prudence and to avoid like the plague (pun intended) costly gestures that will retard recovery and achieve nothing substantive for the environment. What we should not do is widen an already yawning gap between Canada's costly and uncompetitive climate policies and those of the rest of the world. We have much more to lose than countries not blessed with our vast proven oil and gas resources. Moreover, at 1.6 per cent of global GHG emissions, we can have no measurable impact on global temperatures, no matter how heroically we pursue a green transition. And yet Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said his 2020 budget will focus on the environment, while the feds recently raised the carbon tax by 50 per cent.
Every year from now until 2040 Canada could eliminate 1,500 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by substituting natural gas for coal in Asian power plants. Over the 20 years, that is the equivalent of four Canadian LNG export facilities. But that would require pipelines to tidewater, which — perversely — environmentalists oppose.
The UN forecasts the pandemic could cut global economic growth to minus one per cent from a previously forecast increase of 2.5 per cent. That represents roughly $3 trillion in lost production. At the moment, developed countries are scrambling to cope with their devastated economies. Nor is climate change top-of-mind in the non-Western world, which is now responsible for three-quarters of global emissions. International pressure to give up on the calamitous fantasy of net zero emissions by 2050 will be intense, although it remains a throne speech commitment for the government.
China's GHG emissions, representing 28 per cent of global emissions, will grow at least until 2030, given the country's massively increased coal production. Although the U.S., at 14 per cent, has withdrawn from the Paris accord, it actually leads the world in greenhouse gas reductions because of its shift from coal to natural gas. India, currently at seven per cent of world emissions, will increase its share as it works to alleviate the poverty of 276 million people living on less than $1.25 a day. As for Germany, its transition to green energy has been called "an impending disaster." Chancellor Angela Merkel recently caved on support for a green energy plan after her MPs rebelled against it.
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/joe-oliver-canada-intent-on-worsening-urgent-fiscal-problem-with-increasingly-lonely-climate-change-battle
Climate virtue signalling is a luxury Canadians can no longer afford. Build pipelines, build LNG facilities, get Canadians working, generate revenue, reduce global emissions and do it ten minutes ago.
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