Press release.
The new projects are expected to create 90 permanent jobs and 750 construction jobs. Husky also operates a heavy oil upgrader and an ethanol plant in Lloydminster.
Press release.
The new projects are expected to create 90 permanent jobs and 750 construction jobs. Husky also operates a heavy oil upgrader and an ethanol plant in Lloydminster.
Nice to see some positive news out of the patch.
Not sure how many on here heard Rachael Notley’s fake presser this afternoon in response to quebek suggesting it was issuing an injunction against TCPL and Energy East. Rachael gave us the ‘don’t worry be happy’ line’ – she hasn’t a clue. What kind of a country blocks it’s resources from reaching world markets?
This is 15 billion dollars of private capital invested in a project the entire country benefits from and we can’t get it done? The east coast and quebek refineries willingly give their money to the Saudi’s, Nigeria and Venezuela and then stand with their hands out asking for transfer payments from the west.
Whata country!
It is time to think seriously about either cutting of the equalization payments to Quebec or throwing the dummies out of Confederation. I don’t care which.
Exactly. If the Premier of Quebec doesn’t want a pipeline (so dangerous compared to supertankers on the 8billion litres of sewer sludge dumped into the St Lawrence, or towns blown up crude laden trains), then he doesn’t, by definition, want one rent friggin cent from the West.
Any questions Mr Couillard?
Alas, Husky Energy also recognizes that “climate change is a global issue, and has been linked to human activity, fossil fuel consumption and the emissions of greenhouse gases” (huskyenergy.com/environment/airstewardship.asp), so to be consistent with the Crony Capitalism entry four blog posts down from this one, you should probably boycott them too.
What kind of a country blocks it’s resources from reaching world markets?
And we wonder why we have .74 dollar. There is always some kind of excuse “It’s due to the price of oil, due to this, due to that” NO! IT BECAUSE OF THIS NONSENCE!!
Not good news from Calgary.
Nexen Canada lays off 120 people
And right there is the difference between Wall and Notley.
Not real sure why the law isn’t just jammed right down Quebec’s throat. Interprovincial and international pipelines are under federal jurisdiction. Full stop. As Major J explained in “Rothmans”, “The doctrine of federal legislative paramountcy dictates that where there is an inconsistency between validly enacted but overlapping provincial and federal legislation, the provincial legislation is inoperative to the extent of the inconsistency”
And in Grand Trunk v. Attorney General of Canada, “First, … there can be a domain in which provincial and Dominion legislation may overlap, in which case neither legislation will be ultra vires, if the field is clear; and, secondly, … if the field is not clear, and in such a domain the two legislations meet, then the Dominion must prevail”
“What kind of a country blocks it’s resources from reaching world markets? ”
One that elects a PM from Quebec. Every one of them has put Quebec before Canada when a choice has to be made. PM-Selfie knows that the Premier of Alberta has no cohones to withhold xfer payments to Quebec. “Sunni Ways” !!!
Surely the feds can institute a $20 a barrel import duty on imported oil.
Lance, yes, this is good news in an otherwise bleak landscape of news.
Not to mention the crony capitalists on your list of a few threads down further, but Lenin said that the capitalist will sell him the rope with which he will hang him.
abtrapper, “What kind of a country blocks it’s resources from reaching world markets?” The kind of country that has elected leaders that have contempt for and actually hate their people.
Husky = Li Kai-Shing.
Brilliant idea!! Every barrel of oil entering the Republic of New France, not originating in Canada,is subject to an import tax set by the premiers of energy producing provinces, based on their collective ability to supply. This would raise almost as much money as a tax on stupid ideas pushed by politicians and special interest groups in the name of Global Warming. 142,000,000 barrels a year consumed in Quebec, a modest tax of say, $25 a barrel, and the producing provinces could afford the social programs that Quebecers take for granted.
Hats off to Saskatchewan!
Excellent plan, unfortunately the premiers of energy producing provinces don’t have the power to set or collect import taxes on foreign oil entering the Republic of New France.
What is REALLY bizarre is that the federal (and provincial) governments appear to have a hard on to tax (i.e., “carbon tax”) the hell out of Canadian produced oil and apparently leave import oil alone. What they SHOULD be doing is taxing the hell out of imported oil and leaving Canadian oil alone. The Saudis and other other exporters somehow seem to be able to avoid such tariffs…..and even Europe which gets much oil from the Mideast never seems to have to account for the carbon generated by their oil sources. (To be clear, carbon taxes of any kind are idiotic and nothing more than a tax grab by overspent governments…..easier to have suckers pay huge taxes when they think they are “saving the planet”).
What they SHOULD be doing is taxing the hell out of imported oil and leaving Canadian oil alone.
Yes! Any ‘carbon’ taxes should be on imported products. Tax imports based on the percent of global pollution the country produces. China contributes about 30% of the global toxic pollution; much of it into the air that drifts over here. Nearly all of the airborne mercury contamination in North America comes from dirty coal burned in Asia. Tax Chinese products at 30%, and products from the USofA at 15%, and add the rest of Asia for half the pollution on the planet. Canada produces about 2% of the global total, so products made in Canada might be taxed at that rate, to do our fair share.
Consumers would actually pay for their share of the global toxic pollution caused by their demand. Products from countries that don’t pollute the planet would have a market advantage over products from countries that cause the most harm.
Joey: “What they SHOULD be doing is taxing the hell out of imported oil and leaving Canadian oil alone.”
So, another National Energy Program, then?
jean: “Yes! Any ‘carbon’ taxes should be on imported products. Tax imports based on the percent of global pollution the country produces…Tax Chinese products at 30%, and products from the USofA at 15%…Canada produces about 2% of the global total, so products made in Canada might be taxed at that rate, to do our fair share.”
Ingenious. You’ve just imposed a minimum 2% tax on everything, a 15% duty on anything imported from our largest trading partner (in violation of NAFTA), and a minimum 30% duty on most clothing and electronic items, costing Canadians way more than any domestic carbon tax currently being proposed.
Heh, somebody threaten to take away Husky’s ethanol subsidy?
aww c’mon man, that waste grain/feed needs to get used somehow, where do ya think ethanol comes from?
Perhaps oil exports out of the Hudson Bay should be considered. Industry can use that brand new ice breaker that the navy built. Sorry, I guess that job didn’t get done. The great global warming should make the passage ice free anyways!
Lance again you get sucked in.
Of all the larger oilcos operating in ab arguably none has more completely bugged out of the province and the country than husky. They have essentially abandoned everything that wasn’t imminent from completion.
The press release you cite is Mickey Mouse corporate spin.
That is not to say i condemn huskys abandonment – just that they are the biggest bad news story of the bunch.
aww c’mon man, that waste grain/feed needs to get used somehow, where do ya think ethanol comes from?
Taxpayer gets it from both ends. Higher feed costs for feedlots…higher prices to the consumer.
Sask is welcome to that welfare parasite…