This country needs a pipeline more than it needs a railway. So why the hell do we not have one? Justin Trudeau wake the hell up —Cold and in the dark
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2016.
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And Alberta oil was to be the saviour for Canada…
Renewables are the ideal but the reality is that they still only make up a small percentage of our energy use in Canada. We will be using fossil fuels for quite some time to come. I’d rather it be our own supply, and even pay more for it, than buy it from one of the countries with an oppressive regime and a poor human rights record. So maybe the pipeline is a good idea.
I don’t understand why ‘renewable’ would be the excuse for buying Brazil oil instead of Canadian oil. Are the eco-activists really that assinine?
I think there’s a misconception about what the Energy East Pipeline is for. I’m pretty sure it’s for export, not for us on the east coast to consume.
I’m 100% for us pumping oil out here to be refined and used by Canadians. Or, even refining the oil in Alberta and having it pumped out to us. Unfortunately all these pipelines are for getting Alberta’s oil to the coast for export, not for various parts of Canada to use.
GV in response to your question. Yes, yes they are.
A lot of people are arguing as if it is our choice to remain dependent on fossil fuels or not. Oil is a non-renewable resource, meaning it is finite. We can’t just plant more of it, what’s there is there and when it’s gone it’s gone. We’ve been extracting it for over 100 years now and all the easily accessible oil is already pretty much gone. We now have to drill off-shore, wage war, and drudge up oil sands — which is really more of a mining operation and actually consumes more oil than it produces.
Without petroleum products there’s no way our species could have ballooned to the 7.2 billion strong we are today and when we’ve burned the last barrel, unless we have implemented some sort of Plan B, there’s no way we’ll be able to sustain ourselves.
You can deny climate change all you want but can’t deny math.
Canada was too busy trying to give our oil away with the keystone xl pipeline for the last four years to worry about Canada.
Can we not take the billions for a pipeline and spend it on solar and wind technology? Instead of a resource that might not be here in 100 years?