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Old 02-06-2025, 12:50 PM   #9276
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Same same, I guess this is what happens when we continue to say no to pipelines and would someone think of the environment
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Because big picture, more oil = cheaper gas, = less cost for Canada Post, more employees working in oil, = gov milk more taxes, from salary + ppl spending money. Stronger economy, Then they have more $ to hand out to hobos and other country charities whenever there is war and buy more refugees + money to spend on money losing things like Canada Post or hospitals. We can also have a bigger balls in global affairs like opec or telling Trump to shut the fuck up. But no he has us grabbed by the pussy.
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I pointed out that while your first point is true that it's also true that, financially it hasn't made sense for oil companies to invest in new refineries in NA even excluding political reasons.
Your statement is flat out wrong. The IOCO refinery was desired to be revamped several times in the late nineties and early 2000's but it never came to fruition, for a variety of reasons, but principally permitting.

And lets not forget the countless denials Parkland has seen to their endeavors to expand. There are companies that have sought investment here and they have been shut out of doing so.

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I think you're vastly oversimplifying a complex problem that is complex enough that most citizens don't care to or are unable to understand and that politicians are not able or afraid to walk us through it.
Perhaps so, but that doesn't make the points incorrect. Keep in mind I work in this industry, so if you are trying to discredit me, it ain't happening chief. This is what I do for a living, I know the facts, and I certainly know the financials.

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Canada is a highly resource rich country and it would be highly profitable for us to extract those resources and process them on shore - it would create a lot of jobs and a lot of revenue for the government if they did it. However, it would be environmentally costly (HUGELY costly) to do that and we want to meet our climate commitments (and climate change is a real problem) and retain as much of the beauty of our country as possible (for more than aesthetic reasons).
This is the exact statement of bullshit that is touted. Canada wants to meet our environmental objectives, so we ship our crude and resources across the planet, to be refined/enriched/smelted, only to then buy it back so we can use it. This doesnt help climate change, it makes the problem worse, cause now you are carting the crap all over the planet burning even more fossil fuels. The planet doesn't care if China refines the oil, or if Canada does it, the planet suffers just the same.

And the actual fact is that when Canada does the end to end process, because we aren't a third world shit hole, and we have regulations, and we actually give a fuck. We do it way cleaner and with way less polution than India, china, etc.

This statement you make above is exactly the incorrect thinking that lets me know you dont understand the industry is frustrated by the common thinking. This is essentially the resource extraction equivalent to our Real Estate NIMBY's.
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Another Canadain business LTTstore stopping all shipments to the US.

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This is the exact statement of bullshit that is touted. Canada wants to meet our environmental objectives, so we ship our crude and resources across the planet, to be refined/enriched/smelted, only to then buy it back so we can use it. This doesnt help climate change, it makes the problem worse, cause now you are carting the crap all over the planet burning even more fossil fuels. The planet doesn't care if China refines the oil, or if Canada does it, the planet suffers just the same.
This is a good point

But this is also the attitude that leads Chinese cities to look like this

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I'm not your enemy man - as I stated in my comment, "There are consequences to what you think we should have done (drill, drill, drill) just as there are to do the opposite - neither is inherently a wrong opinion - we want more jobs and we more money but we also don't want to end the world and destroy the environment."

Nowhere do I state that I'm AGAINST building more pipelines or refineries but I'm not FOR them either. As I pointed it out it's a complex conversation but if you want to make it a binary thing and if anyone who says there is nuance is your enemy then congrats on being miserable.

I think it's sad that we make such reductive arguments around topics this complex - resource extraction is super destructive and, in some cases, is the cause of enormous environmental damage. It's also necessary to achieve our way of life (where the fuck do people think plastic comes from?).

Can we not tax the consequences appropriately? Can we talk about how destructive it is? Can we not talk about how not extracting resources will affect our quality of life? Can we talk about all at once?

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Your statement is flat out wrong. The IOCO refinery was desired to be revamped several times in the late nineties and early 2000's but it never came to fruition, for a variety of reasons, but principally permitting.And lets not forget the countless denials Parkland has seen to their endeavors to expand. There are companies that have sought investment here and they have been shut out of doing so.
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Perhaps so, but that doesn't make the points incorrect. Keep in mind I work in this industry, so if you are trying to discredit me, it ain't happening chief. This is what I do for a living, I know the facts, and I certainly know the financials.
It sure feels like your time in the industry has only served to make you angry at the rest of the world whether it be environmentalists, politicians or people who don't adamantly support your line of work.

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This is the exact statement of bullshit that is touted. Canada wants to meet our environmental objectives, so we ship our crude and resources across the planet, to be refined/enriched/smelted, only to then buy it back so we can use it. This doesnt help climate change, it makes the problem worse, cause now you are carting the crap all over the planet burning even more fossil fuels. The planet doesn't care if China refines the oil, or if Canada does it, the planet suffers just the same.

And the actual fact is that when Canada does the end to end process, because we aren't a third world shit hole, and we have regulations, and we actually give a fuck. We do it way cleaner and with way less polution than India, china, etc.

This statement you make above is exactly the incorrect thinking that lets me know you dont understand the industry is frustrated by the common thinking. This is essentially the resource extraction equivalent to our Real Estate NIMBY's.
I didn't say it's right - I said it's what the country has chosen to do and it's because we're not willing to have some real conversations about the costs of extracting resources. From what I can gather you're not willing to have a nuanced discussion of what resource extraction actually costs - you just want us to get out of the way and let the real men get to work because the rest of us are clearly too weak and stupid to understand the work you do.
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Looks like polls are tighten, it'll be a massive L if PP pulls off a minority gov't.

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Looks like polls are tighten, it'll be a massive L if PP pulls off a minority gov't.
I dont trust the people. Rustad almost won by doing nothing, and they purposely avoided debates and questions...

edit: I would also like to point out I'm not rooting for liberals to win, overall, I just want an accountable government of any sort... not what's going on in the US right now

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As much as I fuckin hate PP and plenty of conservative MPs, I'd say the vast majority of them are not even a billionth as crazy, reckless, bigoted and demented as trump, and if even one of them was, they'd be dealt with quite quickly.
Guys like Bernier were forced out quite quickly and easily once he went so hard right to go create the retard party, which thankfully only like 1% of Canadians are stupid enough to vote for.
I totally could be wrong, but I don't think the Canadian conservatives are going to end public schools, colonize Gaza and turn it into a casino, or send illegal immigrants to a military torture island.
I no longer think after these past 2 weeks we have to worry about following the path of America. We just have to worry about when they implode sucking us in with them in a flaming wreckage.
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I think PP's past support of Trump will be a liability for him going into the election, and I'm sure the Liberals and NDP will bombard Canadians with ads pushing a narrative that PP is Canada's version of Trump.
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As it should. It doesn't take a smart person to know trump was/is and always will be a piece of fucking shit. It was common knowledge 30 years ago.
Just now even people who are ok with shittiness are like, wow that's too shitty.
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I'd say the vast majority of them are not even a billionth as crazy, reckless, bigoted and demented as trump, and if even one of them was, they'd be dealt with quite quickly.
The republican representatives aren't all crazy either but everyone's too scared to put a stop to this. Then again, most of the people in control right now were never even elected...
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You'd think so, but lots of things that should be a liability for PP don't seem to have had much effect on those polls.
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You'd think so, but lots of things that should be a liability for PP don't seem to have had much effect on those polls.
I'm in a political group chat and god they all use "X" as their news source or some random content creator/meme site. I'm convinced there are more conspiracy theory voters out there than those who care about people having an actual platform and plan to achieve that platform.

All of whom, I must say are deaf to the alarming effect of the tariffs, elimination of section 321, and seem very invested in American politics.
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I'm not your enemy man - as I stated in my comment, "There are consequences to what you think we should have done (drill, drill, drill) just as there are to do the opposite - neither is inherently a wrong opinion - we want more jobs and we more money but we also don't want to end the world and destroy the environment."

Nowhere do I state that I'm AGAINST building more pipelines or refineries but I'm not FOR them either. As I pointed it out it's a complex conversation but if you want to make it a binary thing and if anyone who says there is nuance is your enemy then congrats on being miserable.

I think it's sad that we make such reductive arguments around topics this complex - resource extraction is super destructive and, in some cases, is the cause of enormous environmental damage. It's also necessary to achieve our way of life (where the fuck do people think plastic comes from?).

Can we not tax the consequences appropriately? Can we talk about how destructive it is? Can we not talk about how not extracting resources will affect our quality of life? Can we talk about all at once?



Thanks for correcting the record.



It sure feels like your time in the industry has only served to make you angry at the rest of the world whether it be environmentalists, politicians or people who don't adamantly support your line of work.



I didn't say it's right - I said it's what the country has chosen to do and it's because we're not willing to have some real conversations about the costs of extracting resources. From what I can gather you're not willing to have a nuanced discussion of what resource extraction actually costs - you just want us to get out of the way and let the real men get to work because the rest of us are clearly too weak and stupid to understand the work you do.
I actually recognized you were just taking the opposite side of the debate just to do so, and that you aren't actually opposed to resource extraction, I apologize I didn't mean to come off as combative as I did. You are correct though years of battling people who are 100% against the industry I principally work in has conditioned me to just take a full on opposing stance to the other viewpoint.

Here's the thing, I don't actually care how much we extract or don't. I build not operate, and if we don't build mines, or oil and gas plants, I can happily build manufacturing plants, or data centers, or houses. I will never be out of a job. Actually the funny part is I'm not even working in Canada right now, and while I certainly don't mind being down here in the beautiful Caribbean working, it does make me a little sad that so many of our industry veterans are leaving Canada to go work elsewhere because it is easier than what we have going on in Canada right now.

I agree there is a lot of nuance to this discussion, I dont think every project should go ahead, I think there is a good reason that certain projects (Like AJAX for example) get halted. Maximum resource extraction is not the goal, responsible resource extraction, by responsible companies and responsible people is the goal.

Where I get frustrated is when for 2-3 decades the general sentiment towards resource extraction industry has been NIMBY'ism, and the political landscape has allowed that sentiment to run rampant, and then all of a sudden 25% tariff's roll around and the sentiment all of a sudden flips in a heartbeat to Patriotism and "we need to fasttrack all these projects and become self sufficient". Everything is a political game, and it is tiring.

I have two billion dollar projects on the go, in two different provinces no less, and both are mired in permitting issues, due to the constant changing of goal posts. One is now 2-3 years delayed, and the other is 1.5 years delayed. These are projects that government at multiple levels has stated are critical to Canada, and yet because of the powers given to opposition groups, the projects get stymied endlessly with court challenges, and permitting problems. This costs these companies 100's of millions of dollars, and it benefits nobody except lawyers and gov't workers. The projects will 100% still go ahead. Just years later than they should have and with a cost higher than it ever should have been.

At a much lower level this is the same issue that developers of residential projects have been complaining about for years with permitting costs/timelines soaring on all their projects, and yet the gov't still wonders why we dont have enough housing.

As with everything the gov't does, in a bid to please everyone, they please nobody.

And yes, I hate environmental protesters. All of them. I dont hate environmentalism, I actually believe I am an environmentalist myself, I take great care in the items I purchase, I take great care in reducing the mark I leave on this planet, and recycling where I can. But yes I hate the protestors because the protestors that spend millions of dollars in lawyers and conducting court challenges are not environmentalists, they are paid actors by external companies who benefit heavily if Canada does not refine its own crude, smelt its own minerals, process our own lumber, etc. etc. And there are external companies funnelling millions of dollars to groups like David Suzuki foundation, Our Time, they even feed many indigenous groups money to fight projects.

TL;DR: I'm not against reasonable conversation about our heavy industry, and I'm not for raping our entire country for all it's resources, but I am against the for profit game being made of this industry and the fight to get projects approved/rejected.
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Are you talking about the anti-Temu/Shein thing? Where they will tax packages coming from China even if they are under $800.

That seems like a good thing doesn't it?
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I actually recognized you were just taking the opposite side of the debate just to do so, and that you aren't actually opposed to resource extraction, I apologize I didn't mean to come off as combative as I did. You are correct though years of battling people who are 100% against the industry I principally work in has conditioned me to just take a full on opposing stance to the other viewpoint.
Thanks, I apologise for my part. I didn't mean to be antagonistic in any way.

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I agree there is a lot of nuance to this discussion, I dont think every project should go ahead, I think there is a good reason that certain projects (Like AJAX for example) get halted. Maximum resource extraction is not the goal, responsible resource extraction, by responsible companies and responsible people is the goal.
I have a really hard time in my head trying to square the circle of resource extraction being "responsible" - anything we dig up causes some form of environmental damage and then we burn it/manufacture it and it gets even worse. OTOH, we need the energy and we need the materials - I don't see any way around the need for digging stuff out of the ground.

I think politicians like PP and Danielle Smith do a huge disservice by fighting against any restrictions or taxes against resource extraction. Canada should be in Norway's position with a huge wealth fund created by resource extraction. Norway actually did the hard thing - they taxed resource extraction heavily but built a big industry around it. They're a wealthy country with a seemingly strong environmental record. It seems like a win-win for the most part - a thing I can't imagine Canada can do (much less the US).
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The more Trump acts like Trump, the more it will fuck the Conservatives in Canada. Canadians are much smarter than Americans, they aren't going to let this happen to them. Only an actual idiot would vote for PP

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The tariff "war" really put PP (and Conservatives) in a tough spot - their whole story is that they are basically Canadian MAGA and here we are at war with America's MAGA leader. The Beaverton put it nicely:

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Furious Poilievre criticizes Trump tariffs for uniting Canadians

OTTAWA – Following a tumultuous weekend in which Donald Trump threatened Canada with steep tariffs on all goods, only to back down, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre angrily criticized the US president for bringing Canadians together right before his planned election campaign.

“During these negotiations, President Trump’s actions led Canadians to unite in solidarity, and that is absolutely terrible for my brand,” explained Poilievre as he hastily took down a banner reading ‘Division Is Our Strength’.

“Canadians are now willing to reach across aisles and work together toward solutions to benefit the whole country, and I for one hope we get over that shit real quick,” Poilievre added, angrily.

Campaign insiders note this has been an unusually tough week for the Conservative leader, who had previously been polling in “majority cake-walk” territory. This week’s inconvenient outbreak of national pride runs contrary to Poilievre’s previously-planned campaign themes of East vs West, Rich vs Poor, and Everyone vs Toronto.

The Conservative campaign has also faced the loss of the Carbon Tax as a campaign wedge issue and the emergence of Liberal frontrunner Mark Carney, “a guy who actually knows things.”

“Look, I’m the Opposition Leader,” explained an increasingly-aggrieved Poilievre, “and I thought people understood that meant ‘opposition to Canadians getting along’. Now they’re even talking about a slight popularity boost for Trudeau? Come on, hating on that guy was 90% of my stump speech!”

Asked whether he might consider pivoting to a campaign message centring Canadians against American aggression, Poilievre dismissed the idea. “No, I’m pretty sure Trump would never hurt me personally. We’re both on the same side, right? Right?”

Calming down, Poilievre added, “At least I can still rely on all these sweet endorsements from Elon Musk. There’s nothing Canadians love more than an obnoxious foreign-born tech oligarch who has gleefully promised to meddle in our elections and crater our economy. That’s my boy!”

At press time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to aid the flagging Poilievre campaign by doing something deeply unpopular, by week’s end at the latest.
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