Ryan Strome Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 14 minutes ago, johngould21 said: My apologies, it was an oil platform incident, a Husky Oil property. The seas were so rough they couldn't get to the leakage for days. 250km off NFLand. Nov. 2018 No worries, you had me confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanGnome Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 45 minutes ago, Ryan Strome said: Refineries equal bad to many Canadians. Helping out Countries like Arabia, US, Venezuela equals good to many Canadians. And many Canadians need to seriously rethink their priorities. I'm really unsure how even the most leftist Liberal could argue that it's bad to economically strengthen our own country first and foremost. A strong economic country means a stable welfare state (it's naive to think that we shouldn't do more around social economic policies to improve the safety net for economically vulnerable Canadians). Running yearly surpluses with moderate, common sense taxation ensures that public ordinances like welfare, EI, and other programs for lower income individuals are not jeopardized. When a country is fiscally weak as it is under Trudeau, programs need to be cut as the fat needs to be trimmed off. Harper cut many programs during his tenure, so I'm not sure what the correct balance is to strike, but certainly running 18 billion dollar deficits is surely not going to help matters. There's also only so much that the Federal government can do to improve the day to day expenses of Canadians, more must be done from the provincial level, such as the BC government not signing ridiculous contracts to purchase surplus energy from donor buddies during non peak times when its un needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyBoy44 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Ryan Strome said: Pretty sure you're wrong. Actually 40 rail cars hold more than 5000m3 which is what leaked from that pipeline. Actually if it were a news report it would be 500000 litres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 6 minutes ago, MikeyBoy44 said: Actually if it were a news report it would be 500000 litres. I just switched it to cubes. Nevertheless the 40 rail cars hold more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Lol you guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Transporting oil by rail has always been least safe way to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernards Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 4 hours ago, MikeyBoy44 said: Actually if it were a news report it would be 500000 litres. Or 5 trillion millilitres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 12 hours ago, MikeyBoy44 said: Actually if it were a news report it would be 500000 litres. 8 hours ago, Bernards said: Or 5 trillion millilitres. I have no clue what you guys are talking about, but I like big numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 4 minutes ago, Alflives said: I have no clue what you guys are talking about, but I like big numbers. The news report is in litres but I change it to cubes as I use that daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ryan Strome said: The news report is in litres but I change it to cubes as I use that daily. Why we switched to these European numbers is a mystery to me? Gallons, bushels, pecks. Now that I understand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 4 minutes ago, Alflives said: Why we switched to these European numbers is a mystery to me? Gallons, bushels, pecks. Now that I understand! The prairies the roads are all done in miles and the country runs on kilometers, thanks Pierre. Tbh it doesn't bother me all I have known is the metric system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyBoy44 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 6 hours ago, Alflives said: I have no clue what you guys are talking about, but I like big numbers. The news will use whichever number is biggest to make it sound like a catastrophe. 5000m3 is a lot by all means. I was being cheeky because a spill of a whopping 1000 liters is the same as 1m3. It's a way for most sheep to get disgruntled and hate oil work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofsurrey Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 16 hours ago, Ryan Strome said: The prairies the roads are all done in miles and the country runs on kilometers, thanks Pierre. Tbh it doesn't bother me all I have known is the metric system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyBoy44 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 17 hours ago, Ryan Strome said: The prairies the roads are all done in miles and the country runs on kilometers, thanks Pierre. Tbh it doesn't bother me all I have known is the metric system. The best is when my callsheet is in miles but the bush is in kms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 As someone who grew up with the Imperial system and remembers the switch to Metric, I'm fairly comfortable with both. In construction, I still use feet/inches, and I still refer to weight in pounds, but other than that, metric is fine. It was funny when I took Electrical Foundations back in 2010.....we had a section where we were doing calculations for Aluminum power lines, based on miles and yards. Since everyone else in the class was at least 20 years younger than me, I was the only one who knew that there is 5280 feet and 1760 yards in a mile. I'm pretty sure everyone in the class asked me what those numbers were, at least once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeromotacanucks Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 On 2/17/2019 at 1:08 PM, Alflives said: Why we switched to these European numbers is a mystery to me? Gallons, bushels, pecks. Now that I understand! Just do like the rest of the world and go metric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Zepp Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 If only there was a safer way of transporting this material than rail.....if only..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Yep a pipeline through your backyard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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