Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[darockwilder]

I can't believe the president and CEO of Bow Valley Credit Union is going to be at that event too....

Oh wait.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1915969689701978144

[chedder]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Derek Fildebrandt, Tamara Lich and some guy with a shotgun in a hot tub? I’m in

Plus a bunch of crypto scammers and a hypnotherapist. How could anyone not want to attend?

[photon]

Lol I was in Maui last year and unless the price of food has crashed food is not less expensive.

Or maybe it is if you're the CEO and buying super expensive food.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

I had trouble linking this, so I took it cut and paste from Kevin Van Teigan. The whole letter is a very good breakdown of the situation, but I'd recommend even if you don't want to read the whole thing, read the first few paragraphs about government corruption. Really greasy stuff.

Please provide link.

[Drak]

Originally Posted by photon

Lol I was in Maui last year and unless the price of food has crashed food is not less expensive.

Or maybe it is if you're the CEO and buying super expensive food.

Food in Maui is very high. Dude is lying. I would expect gas there to be high too because it’s an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Gas buddy checks would sort that out.

[MarchHare]

Do some people find driving stressful? Absolutely, even if they may not admit to it. I can't count the number of times (it's easily in the hundreds) that I've had a coworker start their workday by either showing up late and complaining about being stuck in traffic or arriving all stressed and anxious and whining about how they were almost killed by some maniac cutting them off on the Deerfoot.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by photon

Lol I was in Maui last year and unless the price of food has crashed food is not less expensive.

Or maybe it is if you're the CEO and buying super expensive food.

I don't even have to be in Maui to know he's full of crap about gas prices. Checking GasBuddy, the cheapest gas on Maui is $3.79/gal. at Costco and Safeway, with a lot of stations over $4/gal.

That price makes conversion easy since there are 3.785 litres in a US gallon, so it's basically $1.00 USD per L. At today's exchange rate, that's about $1.36 CAD per L.

GasBuddy is showing the Costcos in Calgary at $1.129 per L and pretty much every station in the city is under $1.30/L.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by photon

Lol I was in Maui last year and unless the price of food has crashed food is not less expensive.

Or maybe it is if you're the CEO and buying super expensive food.

I was in Maui a few years back and it was very, very expensive. This guy is either lying or off his rocker or completely lost all perspective.

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by troutman

Please provide link.

The original was on twitter, which I am not a user, and reprinted on facebook. I screwed up by cutting and pasting and not putting the link. Now I can't find the original, because facebook, twitter and google are all sending the most random search results.

What I posted might just end up a random artifact of the internet. Various parts, like the FOIP request might be individually findable. I'll post back here if I can get back to the original.

Social media is ####.

[photon]

I mean I was in Seattle / Tacoma and LA last year too and the food there was really expensive too. I remember travelling to the US many years ago and noticing how cheap food was in the grocery stores, and now it's expensive even before conversion.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/...5bb43c0e0.html

I think we should demand a new pipeline to tidewater so we can finally have a solution to the pollution, with dilution. And what bigger dilution tank exists than the ocean? If Carney can't make that happen we should separate.

It's not a terrible idea. It is the same approach as carbon sequestration where you just need to find a decent reservoir rock (far enough below the water table which isn't challenging) with an adequate cap and then you just inject away. It is likely even easier than CCS and less risky.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Locke

I was in Maui a few years back and it was very, very expensive. This guy is either lying or off his rocker or completely lost all perspective.

Well if any of those 3 things end up being true it’ll be the first documented case of a person posting something misleading like that on twitter.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by photon

I mean I was in Seattle / Tacoma and LA last year too and the food there was really expensive too. I remember travelling to the US many years ago and noticing how cheap food was in the grocery stores, and now it's expensive even before conversion.

Yeah, anywhere West Coast is expensive as hell and, as you said, even before conversion.

Theres a reason all those people are living in tents. Its not just the cost of housing, its the cost of everything.

You know what is cheap? Booze and drugs. I wonder why theres a problem there....

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Do some people find driving stressful? Absolutely, even if they may not admit to it. I can't count the number of times (it's easily in the hundreds) that I've had a coworker start their workday by either showing up late and complaining about being stuck in traffic or arriving all stressed and anxious and whining about how they were almost killed by some maniac cutting them off on the Deerfoot.

Your coworker probably merges doing 60 and thinks their signal light means, “I am turning now”.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

I can't believe the president and CEO of Bow Valley Credit Union is going to be at that event too....

Oh wait.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1915969689701978144

Hey, Brett, go ahead and stay there you ####ing traitor.

[Locke]

Yeah, anyone who says Maui is less expensive than anywhere in Canada is completely disassociated with reality.

Hey America...keep him.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Well if any of those 3 things end up being true it’ll be the first documented case of a person posting something misleading like that on twitter.

Well...it is a Union, are you one of his customers?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

It's not a terrible idea. It is the same approach as carbon sequestration where you just need to find a decent reservoir rock (far enough below the water table which isn't challenging) with an adequate cap and then you just inject away. It is likely even easier than CCS and less risky.

Looking at the volumes I think they are manageable, though I have no idea what the tailings contain and what challenges they may cause(excess pipeline corrosion?). But perhaps a bigger issue would be the removal of that water from the system, particularly if this is a way to abandon tailings completely and quickly divert it all to disposal wells.


That, and disposal wells are already in high demand and hard to find really good ones.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Locke

Well...it is a Union, are you one of his customers?

Pretty good, but I know that you’re capable of much better jabs so you’re only getting a C+ for effort

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Your coworker probably merges doing 60 and thinks their signal light means, “I am turning now”.

This was not a single individual but was many different coworkers across several different employers over many years. I realize this is purely anecdotal, but many people who commute via car seemed to start their workdays much more stressed than those who walked, cycled, or took public transit.