On Friday's show, Aaron Gunn, Spokesmen for BC Proud, joined me to discuss how BC Premier John Horgan's unconstitutional blocking of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline is harming his province and doesn't represent the views of his constituents.
Horgan's NDP government did not win a majority of seats in the last election and is reliant on the support of three Green Party MLAs to maintain power, so he's powerless without the backing of far-left environmental extremists.
Poll after poll shows the majority of BC supports pipelines but hasn't stopped a small group of radicals from holding up construction.
WATCH my interview with Aaron to see how Horgan's obstruction not only fail to represent his province, but is driving aways jobs and cutting off a source of revenue for the BC the and Canadian economy.
That’s concerning. So, after all these theatrics, if the pipeline goes ahead, then the mantra becomes, ‘Yes to a pipeline, then Yes to a carbon tax.’ Maybe that’s what Trudeau had in mind when he said that settling this fight with respect to the pipeline “means we will also be able to move forward” with the Paris Climate Accord agenda and objectives.
BC just exports their greenhouse emissions to the likes of China who have the worst pollution in the world. British Columbians can hold their heads up high knowing they are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
I think the signalling of virtue here would require BC to stop mining coal and polluting other countries. Perhaps if they won’t then Victoria should ship their kaka to China as well. Whats the difference?
“Coal production is a mainstay of the province’s economy, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue and supporting thousands of well-paid jobs. Coal production currently represents over half of the total mineral production revenues in the province. Coal is B.C.’s largest single export commodity.”
-Government of Canada Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/mining/geoscience/coal/Pages/default.aspx
Vancouver airport relies on jet fuel that is shipped from Edmonton. Alberta could shut down the Vancouver airport in a matter of days so you better get that pipeline from the USA built real fast and enjoy paying higher prices too. Exporting oil from Alberta to tidewater at the WTI price would generate more tax revenue in the country to support transfer payments for line items such as health care. Joined at the hip NDP/Greeny leaf lickers like you are hilarious when you pretend to support the oil industry.
Then, as I stated before, turn in your computer, and all daily items in your life derived from or consisting of products from oil & gas, go live in a cave, and I will bring you a coffee to discuss how that works for you. Why wouldn’t we use our own resources instead of importing the products? And if you are so stupid to think we don’t know the difference between oil and gas, why didn’t you answer the questions about using our oil from the oilsands (not tarsands, tar comes from coal,) and use our natural gas from all across western Canada, to sustain ourselves and sell to the world? We do have the safest, cleanest, best systems in the world for extracting and transporting these products, but you prefer they go by rail or come across the border in tanker trucks or by rail? Your hypocrisy knows no bounds, you certainly don’t express the opinion of one who claims to hold a PhD. Then again, I am still waiting to hear for whom you are holding it for?
If you lived here like I do you would know that the tanker trucks coming across the border from the Cherry Point Refinery in Washington State carry jet fuel. They go straight to the airport and nowhere else. The gasoline imported into BC from the US comes in car’s gas tanks because it is a lot cheaper there.
So Andrew Gordo Steele Stephenson, it’s better and safer to transport via rail car and tanker truck? You are insane, and do you know how many thousands of jobs are related to the drilling of natural gas in NE BC? Of course you don’t, or you deny. What about the LNG project they lost, and what about the economic benefits of the LNG project approved in Alaska, worth billions. Can you get any more stupid? "
Not transporting it at all is safer yet., and natural gas isn’t oil.
I am in favour of natural gas, as long as we’re not liquidating it at a firesale price for the sake of “jobs”, and as long as the royalties are used responsibly. Unlike oil, NG leaks have fairly minor consequences; methane is a powerful GHG but even that can be contained, and its usage largely displaces coal, an ecologically ruinous fuel at every stage of its lifecycle. Renewables would be better, but NG is a dramatic improvement over coal.
Your argument is a strawman because of it.
“Ted Tadright commented 3 hours ago
Right now Vancouver has only one source of supply for oil, the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline. If that line goes out of service for any reason, Vancouverites will have to import all their gasoline from the USA.”
They have been importing all their gas from the US. That’s why its’ so expensive recently. They have limited local refinery capacity and when that goes down, there’s none at all.
Trudeau of course wins when MSM fawns all over him for being the “tough” negotiator. All just a political game.