Title: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 17, 2021, 07:48:42 PM
Post by: cc on January 17, 2021, 07:48:42 PM
On the day that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he intends to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline deal, according to documents reviewed by CTV News.
TORONTO -- A source close to the transition team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
According to the transition briefing documents, reviewed by CTV News' Washington Bureau Correspondent Richard Madan, the plan to use an executive order is listed under Wednesday, Jan.20, his first day of office.
The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a controversial cross-border project that seeks to build upon existing infrastructure transporting Canadian crude oil into the U.S. It aims to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alta. to Steele City, Neb., and would cost approximately US$8 billion.
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Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:40:48 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:40:48 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 08:43:49 PM
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 08:43:49 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:47:00 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:47:00 PM
Plus the millions of illegals he wants...
He hasn't even taken office yet, and he's already the worst president for working class people the states have ever had.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 08:51:32 PM
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 08:51:32 PM
Plus the millions of illegals he wants...
He hasn't even taken office yet, and he's already the worst president for working class people the states have ever had.
There is video of workers wiring up CCTV cameras all over DC's new red and green zones full of tens of thousands of armed soldiers and checkpoints galore...
China is so proud...
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:55:50 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 08:55:50 PM
Plus the millions of illegals he wants...
He hasn't even taken office yet, and he's already the worst president for working class people the states have ever had.
There is video of workers wiring up CCTV cameras all over DC's new red and green zones full of tens of thousands of armed soldiers and checkpoints galore...
China is so proud...
They are looking for people who oppose the Dem dictatorship.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 09:06:31 PM
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 09:06:31 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 17, 2021, 09:41:44 PM
Post by: cc on January 17, 2021, 09:41:44 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 09:59:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 09:59:33 PM
Biden to prioritize blocking of Keystone XL pipeline extension
On the day that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he intends to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline deal, according to documents reviewed by CTV News.
TORONTO -- A source close to the transition team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
According to the transition briefing documents, reviewed by CTV News' Washington Bureau Correspondent Richard Madan, the plan to use an executive order is listed under Wednesday, Jan.20, his first day of office.
The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a controversial cross-border project that seeks to build upon existing infrastructure transporting Canadian crude oil into the U.S. It aims to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alta. to Steele City, Neb., and would cost approximately US$8 billion.https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/biden-to-prioritize-blocking-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-extension-1.5270600
[I hope likeminded Trudy and he don't get together, get all excited and ... well you know, don't make me say it]
I'm not surprised, but I didn't think it would be immediately..
It just means our oil to the USA Gulf Coast gets there by train.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 10:03:54 PM
Post by: Frood on January 17, 2021, 10:03:54 PM
As per his invitation .. . future Dem voters are already on the way for his promised paid for by taxpayers goodieshttps://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1350937654678925318
I enjoy watching these manipulative little self entitled pricks get beaten up...
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 11:17:20 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 17, 2021, 11:17:20 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 04:43:29 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 04:43:29 PM
Biden to prioritize blocking of Keystone XL pipeline extension
On the day that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he intends to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline deal, according to documents reviewed by CTV News.
TORONTO -- A source close to the transition team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
According to the transition briefing documents, reviewed by CTV News' Washington Bureau Correspondent Richard Madan, the plan to use an executive order is listed under Wednesday, Jan.20, his first day of office.
The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a controversial cross-border project that seeks to build upon existing infrastructure transporting Canadian crude oil into the U.S. It aims to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alta. to Steele City, Neb., and would cost approximately US$8 billion.https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/biden-to-prioritize-blocking-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-extension-1.5270600
[I hope likeminded Trudy and he don't get together, get all excited and ... well you know, don't make me say it]
I knew he would throw a bone to his anti-science, NIMBY, white coastal greentard base.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 05:49:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 05:49:28 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 05:57:34 PM
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 05:57:34 PM
Biden > "No sweat on that"
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 05:59:58 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 05:59:58 PM
So much for T's "We will not free trade with counties who treat their people badly"
Biden > "No sweat on that"
Progs are so bad for labour rights.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 06:52:38 PM
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 06:52:38 PM
So much for T's "We will not free trade with counties who treat their people badly"
Biden > "No sweat on that"
Progs are so bad for labour rights.
Yes, and don't care about gross abuse of other country's people ... no repercussions, business as usual
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 08:06:31 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 08:06:31 PM
So much for T's "We will not free trade with counties who treat their people badly"
Biden > "No sweat on that"
Progs are so bad for labour rights.
Yes, and don't care about gross abuse of other country's people ... no repercussions, business as usual
Just because Western countries block resource development doesn't mean resources aren't being developed..
They just move to countries that don't care human rights and environmental protection.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 08:45:49 PM
Post by: cc on January 18, 2021, 08:45:49 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 18, 2021, 08:54:59 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 18, 2021, 08:54:59 PM
"The situation at the border isn't going to be transformed overnight," a senior Biden transition official told NBC News in an exclusive interview."
Why not?
Just tell the border officials to go home... Its just one phonecall.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 10:28:57 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 10:28:57 PM
"Incoming Biden administration to migrant caravan: Don't come, you won't get in immediately
"The situation at the border isn't going to be transformed overnight," a senior Biden transition official told NBC News in an exclusive interview."
Why not?
Just tell the border officials to go home... Its just one phonecall.
But, that is Biden's plan-no border on the South.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 19, 2021, 03:06:47 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 19, 2021, 03:06:47 PM
Trudeau so badly botched vaccine acquisition that Canada is now running out of supply with under two per cent of the population vaccinated. Canadians are now likely facing a four-week or longer delay until new shipments arrive. Alberta has created the most efficient vaccination program in Canada.
Nearly 100,000 Albertans will have received at least their first dose of the twodose Pfizer vaccine by the time our supply from Ottawa runs out late Monday or early Tuesday. They could inoculate 50,000 a week now and 200,000 a week by the end of March — if Ottawa would ship us supplies.
Thankfully Alberta prioritized seniors' homes and emergency health workers. By the time the supply dries up on Tuesday, Alberta Health Services should have vaccinated the residents of all long-term care facilities in Alberta, along with most critical care doctors, nurses and technicians.
Alberta can't do anything on its own to persuade the new administration to keep the line alive. That requires Ottawa's intervention.
Trudeau claims he made the case for Keystone strongly when he called Biden to congratulate him last November. But was Trudeau's heart really in it?
Trudeau is our most antioil prime minister ever. He has killed two major pipelines himself — Energy East and Northern Gateway. That makes it hard for him to pressure the new American president not to do the same.
And what pressure has Ottawa been putting on Congress and the new administration since that November call?
It's gotta be ugly being Jason Kenney these days: Stuck in the middle with Justin Trudeau.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 01:21:48 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 01:21:48 PM
Trudeau and Biden most assuredly will be continuously ramming down our throats, through every partisan fake-news outlet bought and paid for by the Liberals, reminders us of the impending end of the world due to the climate emergency.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 07:31:39 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 07:31:39 PM
Where is Justine you ask? Doing nothing of course. When Trump threatend the jobs of the $3 billion dollar aluminum industry, Justine took strong counter measures. Same with the dairy industry that employs very few Canadians.
There is no future for Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. We need to start asserting ourselves. We should encourage North Dakota to do the same and possibly join our new prairie republic.
This sets a dangerous precedent. What happens to the Line 3 replacement or the govenor of Michigan threatening Lines 5 that Southern Ontario depends on.
This would not have happened if we had a real leader in office like Stephen Harper. There would be imediate retaliation in the form of tariffs or on the military alliance front.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 09:53:16 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 09:53:16 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:15:08 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:15:08 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 20, 2021, 10:28:43 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 20, 2021, 10:28:43 PM
From a safe distance.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:34:06 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:34:06 PM
Its interesting to see how things turn out.
From a safe distance.
After I take an expat position, I don't give a flying fuck how deep Ottawa cuts the knife into Canadians collective throats.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:50:30 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:50:30 PM
'It's gotten to the point that unless you are far left or far right, your voice isn't heard — only those polarized voices are heard but we're here. We want this pipeline and I would like President Biden to know that, to understand that killing this project will be devastating to Indigenous people'
Devastating. That's how Indigenous leaders describe the news that president-elect Joe Biden intends to kill the Keystone XL pipeline expansion on his first day in office.
Chief Alvin Francis, president of Natural Law Energy — which entered into a definitive agreement with Calgary-based TC Energy last November — said the news makes the future for his people much bleaker.
"I hope president-elect Biden doesn't do that," said Francis, the chief of the Nekaneet First Nation in southwestern Saskatchewan.
"It would be a very sad day for the progress of First Nations because this is such a big economic development project that it could create intergenerational jobs and benefits here.
"Growth for my First Nation would mean such a lot because we have unemployment of about 50 per cent, so with this project on the horizon my people were basically already planning their future — what it could look like with a soccer field and baseball field for our youth . . . and improve education," said Francis, who was reached Monday by telephone.
He says he's puzzled by Biden's plan because the KXL pipeline expansion is "the greenest pipeline project in the world" — with plans to reach net-zero emissions and set a new standard as the safest pipeline ever built in a project that has been improved over the 12 years since it was first proposed.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 20, 2021, 10:51:39 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 20, 2021, 10:51:39 PM
Its interesting to see how things turn out.
From a safe distance.
After I take an expat position, I don't give a flying fuck how deep Ottawa cuts the knife into Canadians collective throats.
Isnt your education sort of flexible...
You can do something else?
A new career path.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 11:12:34 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 11:12:34 PM
Its interesting to see how things turn out.
From a safe distance.
After I take an expat position, I don't give a flying fuck how deep Ottawa cuts the knife into Canadians collective throats.
Isnt your education sort of flexible...
You can do something else?
A new career path.
I'm a ptroleum engineer. There are heaps of management positions outside North America. I might even accept a position in Norway.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, 11:52:28 PM
Post by: Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, 11:52:28 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:04:29 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:04:29 AM
It's not clear why adding a new pipeline to an existing network built in previous phases of the Keystone project would be thought such a heinous environmental crime (Keystone XL is the fourth phase). Nor why this particular leg of pipeline is considered so threatening in a country that already has a couple of million miles of pipeline.
The charge is that Keystone XL, by making it easier for Canada to export its "dirty" oil from the oil sands of Alberta, will herald the beginning of a fossil-fuels apocalypse.
But we already consume lots of petroleum from the oil sands. According to the Canadian government, 97 percent of its proven reserves are located in the oil sands, and the oil sands account for more than 60 percent of the country's current oil production.
Canada is the third-largest exporter of crude oil in the world, and 98 percent of that goes to the United States, accounting for almost half of our imports of crude oil.
In a more rational time, it was considered a good thing to get oil from a country that isn't located in the Middle East, isn't a petro-dictatorship, and isn't hostile to the United States.
The enemies of Keystone XL have used litigation to tie up the project, even though it has passed multiple massive regulatory reviews. When it seemed it could finally get underway in earnest, here comes Joe Biden to put the kibosh on it again.
If Biden really wants to restore our alliances, telling our friendly neighbor to the north to "drop dead" is a funny way to do it.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:25:54 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:25:54 AM
Today, America inaugurated the 46th President of the United States. As Canada's closest ally and trading partner, let's hope for the success and prosperity of the United States under the leadership of President Biden.
Saskatchewan will continue to advocate for our interests with the new administration, including protecting the important trade and export supply chain between our nations and strengthening North America's energy security.
To this end, it is incredibly troubling that TC Energy has suspended work on Keystone XL in light of the pipeline's looming cancelation by the Biden administration. Now is the time for our nations to strengthen our trading relationship, not erect further barriers to collaborative and sustainable development.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:29:46 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 12:29:46 AM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:41:17 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:41:17 AM
The community has been bustling with pipeline workers who arrived by the hundreds last summer to help build the Canadian leg of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Doug Dingman, who owns a grocery and liquor store in the community, said his business has been up 20 per cent with the crews in town and he thought they'd be around until next fall.
Those workers could soon start hitting the highway out of town as TC Energy announced a suspension in the project on Wednesday, after U.S. President Joe Biden pulled the permit for the proposed pipeline and rejoined the Paris climate accord as expected.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on January 21, 2021, 01:14:23 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on January 21, 2021, 01:14:23 PM
Blue collar workers who voted for Biden and Trudeau need their heads examined.
I agree.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on January 21, 2021, 01:16:02 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on January 21, 2021, 01:16:02 PM
Biden to prioritize blocking of Keystone XL pipeline extension
On the day that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he intends to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline deal, according to documents reviewed by CTV News.
TORONTO -- A source close to the transition team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
According to the transition briefing documents, reviewed by CTV News' Washington Bureau Correspondent Richard Madan, the plan to use an executive order is listed under Wednesday, Jan.20, his first day of office.
The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a controversial cross-border project that seeks to build upon existing infrastructure transporting Canadian crude oil into the U.S. It aims to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alta. to Steele City, Neb., and would cost approximately US$8 billion.https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/biden-to-prioritize-blocking-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-extension-1.5270600
[I hope likeminded Trudy and he don't get together, get all excited and ... well you know, don't make me say it]
I'm not surprised, but I didn't think it would be immediately..
It just means our oil to the USA Gulf Coast gets there by train.
Can you prove that? I think the USA will be forced to get oil from Venezuela and the Middle East.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 01:24:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 01:24:01 PM
Biden to prioritize blocking of Keystone XL pipeline extension
On the day that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he intends to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline deal, according to documents reviewed by CTV News.
TORONTO -- A source close to the transition team of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has told CTV News that the new president will kill the Keystone XL pipeline after taking office.
According to the transition briefing documents, reviewed by CTV News' Washington Bureau Correspondent Richard Madan, the plan to use an executive order is listed under Wednesday, Jan.20, his first day of office.
The Keystone XL pipeline extension is a controversial cross-border project that seeks to build upon existing infrastructure transporting Canadian crude oil into the U.S. It aims to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil from Hardisty, Alta. to Steele City, Neb., and would cost approximately US$8 billion.https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/biden-to-prioritize-blocking-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-extension-1.5270600
[I hope likeminded Trudy and he don't get together, get all excited and ... well you know, don't make me say it]
I'm not surprised, but I didn't think it would be immediately..
It just means our oil to the USA Gulf Coast gets there by train.
Can you prove that? I think the USA will be forced to get oil from Venezuela and the Middle East.
I don't know about Gulf Coast refineries, but Western Canadian crude shipments by rail to the US soared prior to the pandemic.
You are right though, crude from other nations brought in by ship will fill the void of an emissions free pipeline from Canada.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:26:59 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:26:59 PM
Jason Kenney likened the situation to then-president Donald Trump's promise to rip up NAFTA, and to the U.S. imposing tariffs on aluminum and steel in 2018, which led to Canada retaliating with tariffs of its own and suggested energy, as a larger export industry, deserves a similar response.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on January 21, 2021, 02:32:16 PM
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on January 21, 2021, 02:32:16 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:34:52 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:34:52 PM
I took this screenshot on YouTube about five minutes ago -(//%3C/s%3E%3CIMGUR%20id=%22h3uzcjo%22%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://i.imgur.com/h3uzcjo.png%22%3Ehttps://i.imgur.com/h3uzcjo.png%3C/URL%3E%3C/IMGUR%3E%3Ce%3E)//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNR0vccbui8
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:42:13 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 02:42:13 PM
When the former Trump administration slapped punitive tariffs on Ontario and Quebec steel and aluminum in 2018, the Trudeau government imposed $16 billion worth of countervailing tariffs on U.S. goods the very same day. By contrast, when Alberta oil was attacked on Wednesday: nothing.
Also, Trudeau can be blamed for making the death of Keystone matter so much. Had Trudeau not killed two other all-Canadian pipelines — Energy East and Northern Gateway — the end of Keystone wouldn't be such a crippling blow.
Trudeau put too many of Canada's energy eggs in the Keystone basket and now Biden has stomped on them.
Yes, Trudeau said Wednesday he was "disappointed" by Biden's decision, but his ambassador in Washington, D.C. said Canadians should "accept" the Keystone cancellation and "move forward."
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 03:20:14 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 03:20:14 PM
So it's easy to see in Biden's Day-One move just where his administration's heart is: It's with urban elites and professional protesters. It's with "woke" social-media activists and the Gretanistas of the world. It's definitely not with unionized tradespeople, Indigenous investors or small oilfield service contractors.
A consortium of four Canadian First Nations, for instance, is out as much as $700 million in Keystone investments thanks to Biden's move. Thousands of members of at least four major U.S. trade unions will miss out on about three years of wellpaid work.
And please don't tell me they can all get comparable jobs in "green" energy, installing wind turbines and fixing solar panels, for example. Alternate energy sources such as solar and wind rely on imports from China and still need to be backed up by concentrated energy sources like natural gas
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 03:30:17 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 03:30:17 PM
Biden is just reversing decisions made by Trump simply to spite the now former president.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 08:13:04 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 08:13:04 PM
Seth Rogen, who apparently took issue with Cruz's sentiments, responded, "F*** off you fascist."
Cruz shared a screenshot of Rogen's profane response, and captioned it, "Charming, civil, educated response. @Sethrogen If you're a rich, angry Hollywood celebrity, today's Dems are the party for you. If you're blue-collar, if you're a union member, if you work in energy or manufacturing...not so much. #JobsMatter[.]"
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:14:21 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:14:21 PM
The suspension, part of a broad review of programs at the Department of Interior, went into effect immediately under an order signed Wednesday by Acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega. It follows Democratic President Joe Biden's campaign pledge to halt new drilling on federal lands and end the leasing of publicly owned energy reserves as part of his plan to address climate change.
The order did not ban new drilling outright. It includes an exception giving a small number of senior Interior officials — the secretary, deputy secretary, solicitor and several assistant secretaries — authority to approve actions that otherwise would be suspended.
The order also applies to coal leases and permits, and blocks the approval of new mining plans. Land sales and exchanges and the hiring of senior-level staff at the agency also were suspended.
The Interior Department order did not limit existing oil and gas operations under valid leases, meaning activity won't come to a sudden halt on the millions of acres of lands in the West and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico where much drilling is concentrated. Its effect could be further blunted by companies that stockpiled enough drilling permits in Trump's final months to allow them to keep pumping oil and gas for years.
Erik Milito with the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents offshore energy firms, said he was optimistic companies still will be able to get new permits approved through the senior-level officials specified in the order.
But Biden's move could be the first step in an eventual goal to ban all leases and permits to drill on federal land. Mineral leasing laws state that federal lands are for many uses, including extracting oil and gas, but the Democrat could set out to rewrite those laws, said Kevin Book, managing director at Clearview Energy Partners.
The administration's announcement drew outrage from Republicans and some industry trade groups. They said limiting access to publicly owned energy resources would mean more foreign oil imports, lost jobs and fewer tax revenues.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said the administration was "off to a divisive and disastrous start." He added that the government is legally obliged to act on all drilling permit applications it receives and that "staff memos" can't override the law.
"Impeding American energy will only serve to hurt local communities and hamper America's economic recovery," American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers said in a statement.
Under Trump, Interior officials approved almost 1,400 permits on federal lands, primarily in Wyoming and New Mexico, over a three-month period that included the election, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. Those permits, which remain valid, will allow companies to continue drilling for years, potentially undercutting Biden's climate agenda.
But there are other ways an ambitious Biden administration could make it harder for permit holders to extract oil and gas. "The ability to get your resources out, to get right of way, to get roads, to get supporting infrastructure, not all of that is signed and sealed right now," Clearview Energy's Book said.
Under President Barack Obama, the Interior Department imposed a 2016 moratorium on federal coal leases while it investigated the coal program's climate effects and whether companies were paying a fair share for coal from public lands. Trump lifted the moratorium soon after taking office.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:12:21 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:12:21 PM
Its interesting to see how things turn out.
From a safe distance.
After I take an expat position, I don't give a flying fuck how deep Ottawa cuts the knife into Canadians collective throats.
Isnt your education sort of flexible...
You can do something else?
A new career path.
I'm a ptroleum engineer. There are heaps of management positions outside North America. I might even accept a position in Norway.
What about the rickshaw business...
Is that something you would like to do full-time?
Would you consider pulling sleds?
The norwegian sled pulling business is booming but it lacks diversity... Currently there are only dogs and reindeers.
They are all grey.
I think there is an opening for the "first chinese sled".
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:15:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:15:38 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:18:42 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:18:42 PM
Its interesting to see how things turn out.
From a safe distance.
After I take an expat position, I don't give a flying fuck how deep Ottawa cuts the knife into Canadians collective throats.
Isnt your education sort of flexible...
You can do something else?
A new career path.
I'm a petroleum engineer. There are heaps of management positions outside North America. I might even accept a position in Norway.
What about the rickshaw business...
Is that something you would like to do full-time?
Would you consider pulling sleds?
The norwegian sled pulling business is booming but it lacks diversity... Currently there are only dogs and reindeers.
They are all grey.
I think there is an opening for the "first chinese sled".
And it carbon emissions free.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:30:54 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:30:54 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:33:57 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:33:57 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:38:48 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:38:48 PM
What does a "petroleum engineer" do?
I don't know. But, I can tell you what a locmotive engineer does.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:45:26 PM
Post by: Odinson on January 21, 2021, 10:45:26 PM
What does a "petroleum engineer" do?
I don't know. But, I can tell you what a locmotive engineer does.
Drinks coffee and moves a lever back and forth?
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:48:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:48:38 PM
What does a "petroleum engineer" do?
I don't know. But, I can tell you what a locmotive engineer does.
Drinks coffee and moves a lever back and forth?
:laugh:
That's a dirty damned lie. I play cards with the conductor too.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:05:48 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:05:48 PM
What does a "petroleum engineer" do?
I've answered to hundreds of petroleum engineers in my career as a wellsite supervisor. I'm the big boss on the lease. They are the big boss in the office.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: cc on January 21, 2021, 11:25:57 PM
Post by: cc on January 21, 2021, 11:25:57 PM
Drinks coffee and moves a lever back and forth?Quote
That's a dirty damned lie. I play cards with the conductor too.Quote
Wotta guy!!
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:34:57 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:34:57 PM
Drinks coffee and moves a lever back and forth?QuoteThat's a dirty damned lie. I play cards with the conductor too.Quote
Wotta guy!!
CP should give us all a big fat raise on top of our union contract. We deserve it.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:42:09 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:42:09 PM
Drinks coffee and moves a lever back and forth?QuoteThat's a dirty damned lie. I play cards with the conductor too.Quote
Wotta guy!!
CP should give us all a big fat raise on top of our union contract. We deserve it.
Ya, I know you are joking. I would not want your job. It's stressful as hell. Any mistakes could be catastrophic. Which is why you guys are piad pretty well.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:58:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:58:33 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Gaon on January 22, 2021, 01:01:10 AM
Post by: Gaon on January 22, 2021, 01:01:10 AM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 01:17:15 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 01:17:15 AM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Thiel on January 23, 2021, 01:54:07 AM
Post by: Thiel on January 23, 2021, 01:54:07 AM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 02:01:29 AM
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 02:01:29 AM
The Paris Accord agreement will cost America 3 TRILLION DOLLARS BY 2040 AND 2.7 MILLION JOBS BY 2025. And for zip to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.The cancelation of the pipeline will cost thousands of jobs and it supplied 700,000 BARRELS OF OIL EVERY DAY (seven hundred thousand). The imigrants being held by Guatemala Police and boarder patrol are coming to get jobs we do not have to give them. When they cross into the U.S., they will be provided with housing, free education, food stamps, welfare, $1,400 stimulus check, social security benefits, health care benefits etc. complimentary of ALL American taxpayers. All we have to do is pay higher gas prices, higher taxes, less jobs and then just get to the back of the line, thanks Joe Biden. That is the cost of the first day in office. Just wait, it gets much more intense, wait for it . . .
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Thiel on January 23, 2021, 02:13:25 AM
Post by: Thiel on January 23, 2021, 02:13:25 AM
Biden day 1 will be WOAT- Worst of all time
The Paris Accord agreement will cost America 3 TRILLION DOLLARS BY 2040 AND 2.7 MILLION JOBS BY 2025. And for zip to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.The cancelation of the pipeline will cost thousands of jobs and it supplied 700,000 BARRELS OF OIL EVERY DAY (seven hundred thousand). The imigrants being held by Guatemala Police and boarder patrol are coming to get jobs we do not have to give them. When they cross into the U.S., they will be provided with housing, free education, food stamps, welfare, $1,400 stimulus check, social security benefits, health care benefits etc. complimentary of ALL American taxpayers. All we have to do is pay higher gas prices, higher taxes, less jobs and then just get to the back of the line, thanks Joe Biden. That is the cost of the first day in office. Just wait, it gets much more intense, wait for it . . .
Obama entered his first time in the middle of the global financial crisis. He didn't destroy badly needed investment and jobs with the stroke of a pen on his first day. Like most Democratic presidents, he waited a while to start doing that.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 06:00:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 06:00:43 PM
"There's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months," Biden said during a speech at the White House.
Biden's remark prompted criticism. "Haven't we been told for months that restrictions and mandates were necessary to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months?" former Rep. Justin Amash (L-Mich.) wrote in a tweet.
Biden quickly changed his tune, from blaming Trump for not doing enough to change the trajectory to admitting there aint anything he can do besides put vaccines in arms because of the success of Operation Warp Speed.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 09:59:16 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 09:59:16 PM
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 11:49:29 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2021, 11:49:29 PM
Mineral fuels are Canada's largest export to the U.S. — at over US$89 billion in 2019 — two-thirds more important than auto vehicles and parts. Almost 3,000 direct jobs and another 14,000 indirect jobs will be lost in Canada with the cancellation of Keystone XL. Because of reduced pipeline capacity, Canadian heavy oil will often sell at a discount, resulting in billions of dollars in lost GDP and federal and provincial tax revenues.Quote
It will be a no-win decision for the United States, as well, if Biden goes ahead. The discrimination against Canadian oilsands production will lead to a loss of 42,000 direct and indirect jobs even as the pandemic recession rages on. When no longer piped, oil will travel by rail, which is less safe and environmentally more harmful. For every barrel of imported Canadian oil lost, the U.S. will import more heavy oil from other countries.
Who are the competing oil suppliers to the United States? In 2019, they included Mexico (US$12.3 billion), Saudi Arabia (US$11.5 billion), Iraq (US$7 billion) and Colombia (US$6.5 billion). These producers, as well as others, including Russia (US$3.5 billion) and Venezuela (US$1.4 billion), will be important beneficiaries from President Biden's decision to cancel Keystone XL.
So why did he decide to discriminate against Canadian oil? The official reason is to combat climate change. But the latest oilsand technologies have reduced GHG emission intensity by over 30 per cent, so that new Canadian oil has the same GHG emission per barrel as other oil consumed in the U.S.
So, what will the Liberals do in reaction? When Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian aluminum, Canadians felt poorly treated by their supposed ally. Ottawa countered with tariffs on U.S. aluminum products, which were dropped after Trump revoked the U.S. tariffs a month later. Given the even greater importance of energy exports, Canada should not stand idly by now.
we could pursue policies that impact a critical U.S. export to Canada: digital services. There is a long list of retaliations that, unlike tariffs, would constitute sensible policies in this area. We could proceed immediately with "the Netflix tax" — GST/HST applied to imported digital services, which are currently exempt, unlike domestic digital services. Instead of waiting for the conclusion of the OECD's interminable discussions about taxing the corporate income of multinational technology companies, we could go ahead with a French-style tax on Big Tech's digital revenues. We could also pursue the Australian approach and require technology platforms to pay royalties to Canadian providers of internet content.
A more positive step would be to seek re-approval of Keystone XL within the context of a North American pact to achieve reliable, cheap energy and responsible energy development. Canada is in a strong position to provide all forms of energy, including electricity, to the U.S. market. And we should be harmonizing carbon policies to minimize trade distortions. At the same time, the U.S. would further its geopolitical goals by promoting North American energy sources rather than depending on less reliable foreign allies for imports.
Title: Re: Bad News Biden
Post by: Anonymous on January 24, 2021, 08:17:31 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 24, 2021, 08:17:31 PM