Meanwhile, back at the ranch the Metlakatla...
“(The propane dispute) is a root poisoning the whole tree,” said one person close to the matter.
nationalpost.com
have lands in both Prince Rupert and Alaska,
are allied with Lax Kw'alaams,
have a share in the Ridley terminal shipping liquid propane in bulk to Asia from Alberta,
supported the Northern Gateway and Eagle Spirit pipelines,
opposed the tanker moratorium,
are a member of the Coastal Nations group that opposes lifting the moratorium,
have, in conjunction with Lax Kw'alaams, proposed their own export terminal,
been denied because the Prince Rupert Port Authority, a Crown Corporation, has given a monopoly to a Dutch company to ship Alberta propane,
been gazumped by the Ksi Lisims terminal upstream of their proposed terminal by a nation with whom there have been traditional disputes
and on lands in which all parties have a claim but only the upstream nations are recognized by both Federal and Provincial governments
And the Federal government is the regulator
Also the waterways are in dispute between the US and Canada,
and the Alaskan tribes/nations are asking for intervenor statuts in the dispute
and the mercurial American President is pushing a competing Alaska gas export vision,
And the Alberta position broadly has the backing of 31 of 40 nations along one of the northern routes,
and up to 130 nations that have interests in oil and gas development,
predominantly prairie and northern nations,
although some of the Coastal Nations opposing oil have stakes in both gas pipelines and gas ports,
And the pipelines are supported 3 to 1 across Canada and 2 to 1 in BC,
are opposed by the BC governing party,
and a large caucus of the Federal governing party,
both of whom are in minority situations and losing popularity daily,
while threatened by a rapidly changing international order and the mercurial American President who has mused about annexing Canada,
And recent court decisions have put land titles into question across BC,
and prompted other first nations across Canada to lodge large urban land claims
and other American tribes to ask for intervenor status
And a large Saskatchewan company shipping one of Canada's strategically important minerals on which the Federal government was planning to balance the books,
has decided to bypass both Prince Rupert and Vancouver and ship out of the US because,
cheaper,
better infrastructure,
easier permitting,
easier unions,
more clarity.
I think that about covers it.
And the Federal government needs to sell more stuff to payback all the money already spent and which it feels it must spend.
And we haven't even touched on hydro-powered Quebec opposing oil and gas, in dispute with Newfoundland, facing a local election and pursuing the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence.
Time to go Gordian.
Or, in a Scots idiom, Carney is going to have to grasp the nettle.
natural-resources.canada.ca
