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MEKAYLA BALI
Missing Since:
April 12, 2016
Date of Birth:
July 2, 1999
Missing From:
Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Height:
5’2”
Weight:
125 lbs
Eye Colour:
Blue
Hair Colour:
Blond
OPINION
Petrol Points
Trudeau’s carbon
tax and pipeline
troubles
Ahh! Just let the rest of the world gnarlishly (rhymes with relishly, well the “ishly” part does) grind their teeth and fret about Iranian sanctions, carbon taxes, refinery explosions, pipeline explosions, Liberal electoral implosions, NAFTA-SHAFTAs, and what the “Grand Orange of the South” will say or do next to any and all, none of whom have the economic or political armaments nor the cojones (Spanish whatsits) to stare him down. I think I just wrote the longest sen- tence on record.
As is the Canadian way, it seems that the supply chain has a few kinks, mainly because the various govern- ments have forgotten the detail of putting more time and effort to get the tax structures right. But maybe next week, perhaps after happy hour at the Really Happy Hookah Hut, our federal leader and his provincial entourage will be able to get out of the corner of the sandbox box they have put them- selves in along with the rest of us.
Prime Minister Trudeau’s first, “Why-don’t-they-like-me?” problem is that most of the provinces have down- thumbed the carbon tax because the optics for the consumer is that this is, in fact, a tax and not revenue neutral.
One way to get the concept accepted is to tell us, the unwashed, the amount each family or individ- ual will see on a cheque and the date on that same cheque. It doesn’t have to be tomorrow. Any day will do, just pick one to start the process.
Mr. Trudeau’s second problem is the very expensive pipeline white ele- phant we find in our one-animal zoo. Now he must find a way to overcome or pacify those opposed to the pipe- line. How can the original pipeline run for close to 60 years and no one says boo? Yet the sky falls when a shadow line runs beside it? So, the new pipe- line that will carry the same crude (including dilbit, diluted bitumen) and refined products as the existing pipe- line is the problem? Where were the environmental activists 60 years ago?
Is the problem the increased dilbit with the new pipeline? If there were no dilbit, would all concerned be de-concerned?
The solution? Get rid of the dilbit and upgrade it to conventional crude. An upgrader is not a refin- ery and you don’t want to get into that business. If an agreement were to be made with the opponents of the pipeline that they would drop their opposition if dilbit were to be upgraded to conventional crude, then finding experienced and inter- ested upgrader partners already in the oil sands would be the linchpin in this long-in-the-tooth project.
The Indigenous and environmental objectors would have their coastline
Roger McKnight is the chief petroleum analyst with En-Pro International Inc. Roger has more than 25 years of experience in the oil industry. He is a regular guest on radio and television programs, and is quoted regularly in newspapers and magazines across Canada.
free of the threat of a dilbit spill, the upgraders would be located in both Alberta and B.C. providing secure jobs and tax bases, and the producers would have a dependable and secure supply line to non-U.S. destinations.
Just some thoughts to pass along to Mr. Trudeau – thoughts he shouldn’t bogart. His political fingers are burned enough already. TW
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