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Originally Posted by indes
I hope so. I think when you start looking at the cost and timeline to get something like that done the interest will fade. Does Carney have the political capital to invest $120bn on a 4600km (3x as long, 3x the cost?) pipeline that will take a decade to build and will most likely never pay for itself?
Optimistically maybe they have pipeline companies in every province work on their section, and it could get done in a few years? I just don't see it. I'm a mechanical project planner for a major and it just seems so far-fetched that this would ever get done.
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We Abertans get so hung up on pipelines... but why not advocate for something more innovative instead.
Build TransCanada hyperloop corridor. If you built it to have 4 or 8 tubes you could really disrupt how transportation happens in Canada.
If you build 8 tubes, you could lease 4 of them specifically to Oil transport, similar to Notley's rail car strategy but the cars are now moving at 1600km/h. 2 tubes could go to other cargo transport and 2 tubes could be passenger transport. As Oil transport demand declines over the decades, you can scale back the hyperloop capacity dedicated to Oil transport and instead move other things like raw minerals, finished goods, or people.
Charging the Oil companies a premium to use the TransCanada Hyperloop would help fund the project and leave Canada with an impressive transportation option for the next century. That makes more sense to me than building a pipeline that can only transport one thing and then is kind of useless once that dries up.