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Actually. In that instance I can. Follow the conversation preceding that video. It will make as much sense as a claim that bcs coastline is not pristine As well there are numerous areas in Alberta where the water is contaminated to this point. and where well water contains such high amounts of gas that it bubbles
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I agree. When people are ignorantly digging their heels in and refusing to consider why people want their concerns addressed in BC and make statements like "Its Albertas resources but its also our coastline so do it because we said so and no you cant have more" One has to wonder why it's worth speaking to such ignorance
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It has everything to do with development and capably points out why British Columbians are making noise about this pipeline. Should not be hard to understand that.
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how bout them seems ok.
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sixteen billion wow I wonder. if we ever had a majority in BC that supported this. A majority in Alberta and a majority in Ottawa how much could get done. Oh wait...
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Just for fun. Jason Kenney had to appear before a committee the other day. Was asked what he'd do about the carbon tax, he said he'd price it a different way, you know. Like cap and trade which is nothing like a carbon tax at all in name. But by premise is exactly the same. He was also asked what his plan to get a pipeline to tidewater was...he had no answer. Offer incentives to oil companies, lower royalty rates. Those were his best answers. Seriously, Alberta. I know you're not big Notley fans but damn....do not vote this guy in http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jason-kenney-carbon-price-analysis-wherry-1.4652043
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Can't argue that. But with this teams propensity to have injuries happen out of the blue....I have no issues with him taking one more year or starting in the line up
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Why? Because he's a GD Canuck man Odds are he breaks his leg, heals ruptures his testicle, heals, catches mono gets better than separates his shoulder. All in 2 weeks. I think it's safe to worry about the long term viability of our kids especially when this team seems to attract bad luck for injuries like no other
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So...back to bust status because of 1 game in a tourny?
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Paying for people that can't or won't contribute. Like having children
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Well looks like someone sh*t the bed from 208 through 2015.... Now who had a majority in those years. Which 3 players could have done it all and claimed to be business friendly yet now complain about the current players for their lack of success Hmmmm
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So...like having children right?
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Yet again. Silence on line three and Coderre/Montreal/Quebec But BC...now BC IS the line in the sand
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Haven't been to the area since 04. Would love to get back It's had me off pretty hard but what can you do. You reach that point where life stops giving you things and starts taking them back. Luckily you only have to go through it once or twice.
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Can't move north wife won't let me. Mom just died last weds, dads on his last legs. I road trip hard in these instances and North is my first stop. Have plans for the Kispiox park, Berg Lake down to Bella Coola south ferry to the island and a week there. Stewart area is my first stop though. Long drive up the old hart highway. I loved working up north but without the family it's a no go. Kinda shackled to the kids as it was.
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That was before my filming days man. Hoping to make it up there this summer though. Have some soul searching to do and BC is the place to do it
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We worked about 70km east of Stewart for a time just past meziadan lake towards otter mt outside of the park. I LOVED visiting there man. Park on a river and start angling. Nobody cared.
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In penticton? Can...can we have pets? Is it a 2 bedroom box? So like what $1400?
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Man I LOVED alaska when I visited. Haven't been since I met my wife but it was awesome. The last true frontier. Oh you wanna shoot something, go for it. Fishing? pfft what license. Panning...ok well panning sir you need a permit for. Oh it's personal use, why didn't you say so. Just don't dredge to much of the river. People keep pressing this idea that Alaska would be happy to leave the US. That Cascadia (alaska Yukon BC Washington Oregon California) would happen. Never, not in a million years. Alaska looks nice, but she's got a cold heart and tough people and she's very happy to develop resources.
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Research is always essential. I am loving the idea of bitumen pellets as have been spoken of https://www.innovatecalgary.com/files/public-files/inca-categories-documents/bitumen-pellets.pdf An absolutely brilliant idea already being moved forward, they float, they don't leak due to the composition of the casing/morphology (if that's the proper word) of the pellet itself, and can be easily cleaned up. Had the government embarked on a campaign of research a decade ago we'd not be having this argument now
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Washington has vastly more tanker traffic than us and holds refines fracked materials. Oregon has uranium deposits and is off shore dredging rare earth metals Alaska...well lol you've never been to alaska have you? We're not becoming part of the US. So stop right there. Alaska is more like Alberta than you could ever believe. Washington has twice as many people than BC and three times the social problems. So...just don't I don't like ignorance. Never have never will. It's why I sit in the center, because too far left, too far right...stupid is as stupid does they say. Here's a beautiful image of Alaska for you.
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You need to knock that crap off unless you plan on giving up your phone, car computer, roof and more. "tar sands" play a vital role in just about every man made item today and you'd do well to understand that. Ok your schtick is about as old as alfs but more ignorant in its delivery. Oil Sands are essential, proper development is more essential. Attitudes like yours are what will and have caused the issues with development because the counter point to your endless statements of ignorance are "It's our coastline too we'll build whatever we want" That's a literal mirror image response to your "tarsands need to be left in the ground" statements
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See here's the fun part. ALL of the cost associated was the initial investment. Much like everyones claims in the 90s of green energy being to cost heavy to continue, it is now cheaper than fossil fuels since the infrastructure and much of the R&D has been completed. The initial cost is always the heaviest. As well right about that point in time the Iran issue came in to effect and the OPEC issues came about resulting in a 7 year supply glut which saw prices drop almost every single year. Sound familiar? been happening since 2014 hasn't it? Prices dropped by 48% in 1986 alone. It was part of what lead to the infamous interest crisis here in Canada (remember jingle mail) Discouraging more producers? Sure didn't harm every other country with a national strategy did it? Barring Venezuela and their cute little dictator every other country with a national plan or state owned project is doing quite fine with outside investment. Russia being the best example as a country with state and private enterprise. Scarfe's thesis was predicated around the issues that existed in the 1980s. By his own statements private enterprise was not coming back to Alberta or the west in canada due to those pricing issues and over supply. he also clearly stated that a lack of pipelines was an issue and that more refining capacity and pipelines would have alleviated much of the issue. Sound familiar? Now, here's the best part. In 1974 the Canadian government was dictating cost/pricing and export costs of oil and gas in canada. This did not become an issue until 1981. After the NAFTA agreement came in to effect the issues that were brought up about Canadian governance dictating prices came true...except it was the AMERICANS dictating the cost of oil and gas in canada due to NAFTA rules. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5008091_The_NEP_Meets_the_FTA Paint a picture with a few choice paragraphs all you'd like. I met Mr. Scarfe while attending UVIC as he was one of our Profs. In B-Com one of his most passionate studies was on the NEP and how much of what he wrote was taken horribly out of context as his papers were written for today yet at NO point in time did the government ever publish his future papers on it. Pages 330 through 360 of his report were all that were spoken of. Nor did they look at his later write ups regarding how the government turned around and gave the Americans the control that they refused to give Ottawa thus taking the control out of our hands and giving it to a foreign entity. There were vast issues with the NEP in its initial framework and nobody can or will argue that. But instead of working through it as a government, Lougheed and Mulroney instead basically gave it the old Kenney. He did it, we'll undo it. Now we can look back and realize with some tweaks it would have saved this country a lot of heart ache, job losses and these ridiculously high costs at the pump As for our military, John Diefenbakker a Conservative PM destroyed our military in just over 6 years. Writing agreements to the Americans that we would stop making and manufacturing our own weapons, shuttering spending of our GDP from 5.6% to just under 2% throwing almost 140,000 Canadians out of work between the military, aerospace and weapons manufacturing. The Avro, Bomarc decisions, Sell off of 2 ports, accepting US missiles instead of canadian ones as well as the shutting down of canadian radar installations in place of American ones pre NORAD. You can point whatever rosy picture you want. Either you are pretending I don't know what I am talking about or you're making it painfully obvious you don't understand yourself https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/diefenbaker-of-canada-agreed-to-stop.html http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/the-best-pms-in-the-past-50-years/hail-to-the-chief-the-incomparable-campaigner-who-squandered-a-historic-majority/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402390701676535?src=recsys&journalCode=fjss20 https://www.usask.ca/diefenbaker/johngdief/the-bomarc-missile-controversy1.php
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It's not necessarily Horgan that's the issue. It's the city of Vancouver and the nimbyists within it. Horgan is suing for the rights to ensure that this province is safe. Nobody can fault him for that. That will take time and that's his big drawback, is that it WILL take time. That's not on him but successive governments before him that did none of that essential research. Everyone else is suing to stop the line entirely.