tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6251927787669952292..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: If You're Pouring Gasoline On the Fire, Don't Pretend You're Fighting the Flames.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45909559998477379402019-04-30T14:02:07.592-07:002019-04-30T14:02:07.592-07:00Bm..good job. That is exactly what it is about. ...Bm..good job. That is exactly what it is about. All those German prisoners of the IIWW finally getting on the Cattle Drive East. Who said Nazis don't exists. Just live in Alberta for a few months and learn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77482029788195388782019-04-29T15:31:33.705-07:002019-04-29T15:31:33.705-07:00Chill out, BM. New Brunswick is a maritime provinc...Chill out, BM. New Brunswick is a maritime province. Sorry if I didn't specifically deal with NS or PEI but, in fairness, so what?<br /><br />The rest of your points, however, I cannot help but agree with. Canada does, indeed, lack really national policies but part of that is because of the difficulty of trying to forge federal-provincial agreements without some province demanding to renegotiate the constitution because of some grievance, real or imagined.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28228499434086019792019-04-29T14:53:37.847-07:002019-04-29T14:53:37.847-07:00The flooding isn't affecting the Maritimes - i...The flooding isn't affecting the Maritimes - it is specifically affecting New Brunswick and its Saint John River watershed. A geography lesson is required for your hazy understandings of my region, something I've noted before.<br /><br />From the NEB website:<br /><br />"Canada produced approximately 4.4 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of crude oil in 2017, an increase of 47% from 2010 (Figure 1). This ranked Canada as the 4th largest oil producer in the world. Canadian production is centred in western Canada, which accounted for 95% of total production in 2017. The remaining 5% was produced mostly in Newfoundland and Labrador. Canada’s crude oil goes primarily to export markets. In 2017, Canada exported an average of 3.3 MMb/d – a 6.5% increase since 2016 and a 68% increase since 2010."<br /><br />Read that and weep, Since 2010, Alberta/Sask has increased "oil" exports 68 frigging percent. While Notley had her shit fits, there was a 6.5% increase 2016 to 2017. Increase of 47% in overall production from 2010 to 2017.<br /><br />I didn't bother to look it up, but quite obviously, Alberta has a crap royalty regime. They should be charging on a per barrel basis for that public resource, but obviously are not or Alberta wouldn't be on the supposed skids. They'd instead be rich from the increased production. Talk about being "owned" by the oil industry, yet your average Alberta dolt listens to the Notley and Kenney bullshit about the need for new pipelines. The only way to fill them would be even more production, which the country needs like a hole-in-the-head. Not to mention it would blow away our international GHG commitments. Well, not would. It is already without a new pipeline.<br /><br />Alberta gets its fresh water from glacier melt and uses vast amounts producing dilbit. When the glaciers disappear, as they will, what then? Well, the oil companies will disappear overnight and remediation will never happen. Don't worry. It'll be Eastern Canada's fault, because Alberta is flawless.<br /><br />I have to say, Alberta is populated by navel-gazers uninterested in anywhere else. Even the progressives there are tied up in this BS (read their blogs) and never talk about the environment except for Climenhaga. It's a bubble where outside influences do not penetrate, and all the bad times are caused by other people who don't live in their idea of paradise. And where do a lot of white scratch-their-armpits supremacists come from? Alberta, land of the complete idiot.<br /><br />Our federation is far too loose. We don't have national strategies on anything important because two-bit joke provincial premiers object. And in Alberta in particular, with a nod to Saskatchewan as junior partner, fully-formed conservative twits pop up fully-formed from gopher holes ready to whinge about those easterners and latterly BCers and always Muslims. Or like Scheer or Kenney or harper are born in Ontario and head west, their heads full of relgious shit, to incite the locals further.<br /><br />You'd think the country would be focused on the environment to the exclusion of pretty much all else. But regional loons run the place to the detriment of us all.<br /><br />BM<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com