Butters7

The bridge would be a huge job and probably wouldn’t happen unless the population of the island grew exponentially. Any reason why you don’t want a bridge? Pretend for a second you could snap your fingers and it was there. What impact would it have that would make you wish it was gone? When I lived on the island I wished there was a bridge to Vancouver. Would have made day trips so much better.

Do you ever have anything else to contribute to a discussion besides F350s? You’re obsessed with them.

As an Albertan, this is embarrassing for the entire province.

You must support the LNG pipeline then right? All the coal being used in China and India for power plants being replaced with natural gas which produces 50% less CO2. Since any country in the world using coal has a tremendously negative impact on BC as far as climate change is concerned.

I wish we all biked around and had 100% green living like you do. Must be nice living in a place where you don’t use natural gas for heat, buy all local food so nothing had to be shipped via semi. All vegetarians so as to not fuel global warming by contributing to mass farming all around the world. What city do you live in that I can come live in a green paradise with you and do as you do?

It’s not that crazy. Build a pipeline, have the facility on the coast that changes the oil to pucks, though it would have to be more than 50000 per day, throw it onto a shipping boat.

Uh.... the wheel has come along way from the old wooden spoked wheels used for cart and horse to what they are now for the car. Wheels in the mars rover needed huge innovation to do what it can. Sure the shape is still circular but to say there has been no innovation is simply not true.

I like how people here generalize Albertans, British Columbians, Québécois. Provinces should have been scrapped and just have one major ruling government for the country. These worthless imiginary boarders pits so many Canadians against each other due to gernerilzations. It’s going to be just as bad as the US at some point. There definitely has to be a better way than what we have now.

Don’t forget that one of BCs largest natural resource export is coal, to burn.

They’d probably ask everyone to stop fishing first so they can eat.

Do you actively fight global warming? Eletric heat for your house from a carbon neutral supplied power plant? Don’t drive a car? Don’t use ashfalt roads? Use a bike with natural rubber tires instead of synthetic? Assuming you are from BC have you contacted your provincial government to tell them to stop exporting coal? Do you fight against the new LNG pipeline? You can be against global warming and still see how a pipeline is good. Maybe we could shut down all coal and natural gas power plants as a starter to reduce green house emissions.

There is more than one way to reduce greenhouse gas and sell our oil. When people think of oil all they think of is burning it and CO2. There are thousands of applications where oil will still be used even if all vehicles went electric. Roads, manufactured goods such as plastics. Not all oil use produces greenhouse gas. The biggest issue I find is how we produce electricity. If we could get the world off of natural gas and coal onto thorium or uranium nuclear power plants carbon footprints would be greatly reduced. I’m a huge supporter of nuclear power. It’s safe and clean. Everyone freaks out when it’s talked about because one plant was built on a fault line and the other was an old Russian plant. We already have more than 15 plants in Ontario, why not build more across Saskatchewan and Alberta. It doesn’t matter how many electric cars we drive if everyone uses gas and coal to power them up. Not to mention all the houses in North America that use natural gas for heat. More nuclear plants and more electric heating for houses too. Plus how soon are planes and large heavy duty machines going to be run off of something other than oil? It’s going to be a lot longer for those applications compared to standard motor vehicles. The world might as well buy our oil instead of from unethically run countries such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela or Russia.

It seems more like over fishing is the issue. Lack of food and obviously all the fishing boats that go along with it. I’m not saying another boat is not going to hurt the orca population but this expansion proposal is definitely not where the fingers should be pointed. The fishing industry is one of the worst problems in the world. There will always be boat traffic for cargo going across oceans but the fishing industry could sure use some changes.

Yeah the pipeline would have to be build and the plant to convert bitumen to pucks would have to be in BC at the end of the pipeline.

True, but if a building capable of producing 1m barrels worth of pucks a day in bc could be an option I wonder if it would appease everyone. Obviously not the people who want no oil to be used ever again but for those who understand there is a transition from fossil fuels to green energy.