Pipelines, energy and natural resources

[Brad Sallows]

Adding a PST or increasing royalties are just ways of taking a bigger cut of the pie. More pipeline capacity increases the size of the pie.

How easy it is to lose site of pro-growth policies and lapse back into "meh, just increase taxes".

Pro-growth is at least one principle on which AB and Carney both agree.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Adding a PST or increasing royalties are just ways of taking a bigger cut of the pie. More pipeline capacity increases the size of the pie.

How easy it is to lose site of pro-growth policies and lapse back into "meh, just increase taxes".

Pro-growth is at least one principle on which AB and Carney both agree.

When your provincial economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Alberta

 

[Kirkhill]

When your provincial economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Alberta

Working in the real world tends to breed realists.

 

[Brad Sallows]

When your provincial economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Alberta

When your national economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Canada.

 

[MilEME09]

When your provincial economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Alberta

Exactly, 90% of Albertas general revanue is from O&G related taxes and royalties. In from 1984 to 86 royalty rates were steadily reduced to the current 1% pre payoff, and while it can get as high as 40% post payoff, creative accounting often ensures projects take decades to reach that point, at which point many projects just close up.

 

[childs56]

Exactly, 90% of Albertas general revanue is from O&G related taxes and royalties. In from 1984 to 86 royalty rates were steadily reduced to the current 1% pre payoff, and while it can get as high as 40% post payoff, creative accounting often ensures projects take decades to reach that point, at which point many projects just close up.

Where does the 90% number come from?

Government of Alberta

Alberta Economic Dashboard

economicdashboard.alberta.ca

 

[Kirkhill]

Where does the 90% number come from?

Government of Alberta

Alberta Economic Dashboard

economicdashboard.alberta.ca

Try this one

Revenue

Government projections of non-renewable resource revenue and revenue from taxes and other sources.

www.alberta.ca

17/74 ths.

 

[HavokFour]

Bit of good news regarding the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion.

Judge dismisses U.S. tribe's challenge to major B.C. port expansion​

 

[lenaitch]

Bit of good news regarding the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion.

Judge dismisses U.S. tribe's challenge to major B.C. port expansion​

Or it's just a step before a blockade or something. Often, when FNs win in court, the law has spoken; when they lose, colonial law doesn't apply to them.

 

[Kirkhill]

Or it's just a step before a blockade or something. Often, when FNs win in court, the law has spoken; when they lose, colonial law doesn't apply to them.

Government occasionally has to assert the law.

 

[Good2Golf]

When your provincial economy is enslaved to the whims of world commodity markets you tend to get... well... Alberta

I didn’t think Alberta exported much hydroelectricity, softwood lumber, metallurgical coal (open pit-mined from the Rockies) and minerals?

Oh wait…

 

[Kirkhill]

Hydrogen? Maybe next year.

Hydrogen for Transportation Didn’t Fail Just Once in 2025. It Failed Everywhere. - CleanTechnica

Across every mode, hydrogen transportation retreated or failed outright in 2025 while battery electric systems scaled from pilots to deployment.

cleantechnica.com

 

[Kirkhill]

From the above

"Canada improved its zero emission transit fund, and in the process eliminated the sole-source advisory role for a think tank that kept inserting hydrogen into fleet plans through modeling tricks and bad data. Battery electric buses delivered predictable energy costs, simpler maintenance, and higher availability. Transit agencies reverted to technologies that fit their budgets and workforce skills."

Jamie Sarkonak: Electric buses are a disaster for every Canadian city that tries them

Regina is just the latest city to report problems with unreliable battery-powered transit

nationalpost.com

How bad was hydrogen if battery electric buses were an improvement?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

From the above

"Canada improved its zero emission transit fund, and in the process eliminated the sole-source advisory role for a think tank that kept inserting hydrogen into fleet plans through modeling tricks and bad data. Battery electric buses delivered predictable energy costs, simpler maintenance, and higher availability. Transit agencies reverted to technologies that fit their budgets and workforce skills."

Jamie Sarkonak: Electric buses are a disaster for every Canadian city that tries them

Regina is just the latest city to report problems with unreliable battery-powered transit

nationalpost.com

How bad was hydrogen if battery electric buses were an improvement?

Electric buses have been a part of most transits systems for generations. Full EV buses is where the problem is. I suspect down the road we will see hybrid buses, perhaps even hybrids buses with trolley poles.

 

[Kirkhill]

Electric buses have been a part of most transits systems for generations. Full EV buses is where the problem is. I suspect down the road we will see hybrid buses, perhaps even hybrids buses with trolley poles.

Toronto 1922

The Way We Were: Toronto's real first electric buses

For many of us, media reports and their related headlines are usually quick, concise accounts that skim the surface of a breaking news story.

torontosun.com

First battery bus 1907

London Electrobus Company - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

First trolleybus 1882

April 29, 1882: Trackless Trolley Starts Rolling

1882: Ernst Werner von Siemens tests a demonstration “trackless trolley” in a Berlin suburb. The innovative device pulls electricity from overhead wires, but runs with road wheels, not on rails. By the early 1880s, Siemens (yes, that Siemens) had already displayed the world’s first railway using...

www.wired.com

.....


In 1884 carburetion was added to the Otto cycle Internal Combustion Engine.

In a straight race between EVs and ICEs ICEs won.

 

[Kirkhill]

Ice-class LNG Tanker Lifts First Winter Cargo From Russia’s Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2

An Arc7 ice-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier has completed the first-ever winter pickup of LNG from Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 plant, a milestone for the project as its majority owner Novatek may seek to keep limited production running through the harsh Arctic winter.

gcaptain.com

Could just as easily be carrying unsanctioned LNG from Churchill

 

[lenaitch]

Electric buses have been a part of most transits systems for generations. Full EV buses is where the problem is. I suspect down the road we will see hybrid buses, perhaps even hybrids buses with trolley poles.

Some jurisdiction are trying EV police and fire vehicles. for front line work. I suspect they will be shuffled off to non-front line roles once the media stops noticing.

 

[Kirkhill]

Note this from the above


"The cargo was loaded on December 19 at the Utrenniy terminal by the Christophe de Margerie, marking the first winter shipment from Arctic LNG 2 since the sanctioned project opened in August 2024. The vessel is now sailing west toward the Barents Sea, where it is expected to either transfer its cargo to a conventional LNG carrier at the Kildin reloading anchorage or unload it into the Saam FSU, both near Murmansk."

The ice-strengthened vessel is used just to get free of the ice before transferring its cargo on the water in a direct ship to ship transfer to a conventional carrier.

That means the ship would only have to move from Churchill to somewhere like Nuuk, or Qikiqtuarjuk

Qikiqtaaluk Arctic Economic Development LP / Claudia Feldkamp, Consultant - Registration - Consultant - - Lobbyists Registration System -

Insert the English description

lobbycanada.gc.ca

https://www.lngtransfer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lngshiptoshiptransferguidelinespdf.pdf

 

[daftandbarmy]

Some jurisdiction are trying EV police and fire vehicles. for front line work. I suspect they will be shuffled off to non-front line roles once the media stops noticing.

Victoria hates their new electric pumper truck so much that they're going to buy a second one

 

[Kirkhill]

Victoria hates their new electric pumper truck so much that they're going to buy a second one

When does it stop raining enough for a fire to breakout?

Or do you just use them for flood management?