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Originally Posted by Sliver
I'm looking forward to hearing answers to this, too.
My basic understanding is we are actually pretty responsible in how we harvest oil in Alberta, particularly when compared to Middle Eastern countries. It's also less harmful to the environment to transport by pipeline versus tankers across the oceans and rail over land (lower GHG and apparently safer per barrel transported or something like that). That said, I think stopping the pipeline won't have any sort of material negative affect on Americans and since it's so controversial and a win to Biden's base to stop it, I don't see why he wouldn't. It's an easy win for him with no major downside.
Just because there is a better way doesn't mean you can get buy-in. I'm sure that's the same for every industry ever. We probably lost this battle a decade or so ago when "dirty oil" became attached to our product. Now whether the anti-Alberta-oil sentiment came about due to any truth, or if it was propagated by oil companies in the USA and elsewhere to hurt Alberta to their own benefit is sort of moot. We're where we are now and our premier having a temper tantrum on live TV certainly doesn't ingratiate us to anybody, so if it doesn't help, it probably hurts.
Now this is an aside because why should you care about our premier, but OMG what an embarrassment this guy is. Just a dope of the highest order to go on TV to whine that "it's not fair". GFY. As if we'd care about American oil if the shoe were on the other foot and it had to be shipped up here across the land of our people that didn't want it. Also, we can't even get our own countrymen to allow us to build pipelines across our own country. How the fata do we expect residents in a foreign country to let us do what we won't allow at home?
Kenney lashing out a the president of the USA on his first day is so fataing dumb I can barely even comprehend that was real life. What a fataing moron. Where does he think that will get us?
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I posted this before as I thought perhaps TC awarding $1.6 billion in American contracts would make Biden think twice. It clearly didn't. Anyway, there is a material impact on some Americans. Not many in the grand scheme of things, but some.
As for the rest of your post, tough to argue. We are being road blocked going south, west, and east. That's no one's fault but our own ultimately.
Might as well try going north and take advantage of that northwest passage being open longer and longer each year.