Look at the CEO consortium letter and think on that. I worry we are in the (non SI unit) give an inch and get taken for a mile perod which is coincident with the current discontent with USA and the tumult of election.
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Comparing what that letter requested (using powers granted under the Constitution) to Trump literally dismantling portions of the US government, ignoring the US constitution, demeaning immigrants without due process is crazy hyperbole.
Crazy hyperbole? How about raving about evil countries as opposed to the evil leaders or regimes? You don't see any intent behind the CEO letter to say ... do this or our investment dollars will flow ... to the places which some people will find unethical...or to countries who dont have agency?
Project like Energy East and Northern Gateway are massively beneficial to Canada. A government using regulations to block them (North BC tanker ban???) has only abdicated our responsibility to produce ethical energy and made way for the worst of the worst evil world regimes.
I cannot abide 'ethical energy' as a concept as it simplifies the situation. If you cut of the regimes where do you have leverage for dialogue and change? Who suffers more by having high environment or ethical standards and using as blunt realpolitik? Us or the people over there in pariah states?
You argue that CEOs had a right under constitution to present a suggestion to use the emergency act is ok...but then suggest blocking tankers using an existing government regulation which has constitutional consistency is the 'problem child'? Aren't both valid?
How do you explain the growth in gross production in Canada to the highest levels? With tanker ban ... with industrial carbon policy in Alberta ... do you think our foreign presence and strengths are muted because of these policies? And these policies have external effects of fostering regimes?
You're missing the point.I never said the Federal government didn't have the right to issue the tanker ban, I merely stated it was part of killing Northern Gateway. You are the one who compared the requests in the CEO letter to that of the current US presidency, which are not comparable.
Canada has the most stringent environmental regulations in the world, with or without a carbon tax. Limiting our own industry and buying oil from evil regimes is next level hypocrisy.
Other than Canada Less than 2% of world oil production is subject to a carbon tax. Making things harder here pushes production to other places, who not only don't have a carbon tax, but their environmental rules (flaring, methane) are non existent.
Who killed Keystone XL? It had nothing to do with economics ... it was politics. TCE ended up with clash in GOP held Nebraska. Nebraska: Go around aquifer. TCE: no. Nebraska: Go around aquifer. TCE:no. What TCE did was what the CEOs are doing now. So blame Biden if you want.
Fair, I thought it was clear I meant the regimes who these petroleum sales benefit. But that is a good clarification. If you haven't seen investment absolutely flee Canada, primarily to the US over the last 15 years you haven't been paying attention. It's not a threat, it's a fact.
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