Pipelines

[Kirkhill]

Meanwhile - for a guy that seems to not need anything that we have to sell he seems mightily focused on finding alternate sources of the stuff we can supply cheaply.

Trump Signs Executive Order Boosting Deep-Sea Mining Industry

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.

gcaptain.com

April 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.

And he wants Greenland for its strategic location (home of missile bases) and its minerals. Strangely he seems to covet us and we have also have the minerals he needs.

The US is broke other wise he would buy us. He can't afford us so he wants to take us.

FOAD.

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Meanwhile, in the UK,

Electric ‘superhighway’ delayed in blow to Miliband’s net zero plans

Global shortage of high-voltage cables and converters risks Eastern Green Link 1’s delivery date

www.telegraph.co.uk

The UK wants to build Power Corridors by 2030. Their corridors are a damsight shorter than any of the ones that Carney wants to build.

He is talking about Corridors like the NeeStananan one to Nelson/Churchill (about 4400 kilometers) as well as connections to Grays Bay and Inuvik. Grays Bay is located adjacent to the Coppermine River on the Coronation Gulf.

We may end up exhausting the Coppermine deposits just to manufacture the power lines to get power to the mine.

A £2bn electricity “superhighway” linking England and Scotland is facing delays in a blow to Ed Miliband’s clean power plans.

Eastern Green Link 1 risks missing its target completion date because of global equipment shortages. The project involves a 120-mile cable being built between Scotland and north-east England that is capable of transmitting enough power for 2m homes.

Kathryn Porter, an independent energy analyst, said: “To achieve the Clean Power 2030 target we must build twice as much grid infrastructure in the next five years as we delivered in the past decade.

there is a risk the project will be severely late.

SP Energy and National Grid blamed global shortages of key pieces of equipment, including high-voltage cables and converters, which countries around the world are racing to buy as part of the switch to green energy.

That has led to years-long wait times, with manufacturers racing to expand their capacity but struggling to keep up with demand.

The problem highlights the risk posed to Mr Miliband’s clean power plans by a lack of available parts.

“But supply chain constraints make this an unachievable goal, particularly when we note that the lead time for some transformers is now four years.”

a £350m investment by Sumitomo Electric Industries in a new high-voltage cable manufacturing facility at the Port of Nigg, Highland, Scotland.

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There seems to be a lot of people scrambling to find the stuff that we have in abundance and readily accessible - old fashioned stuff like iron for electric power pylons - that Carney claims nobody needs any more.

 

[Kirkhill]

Mark Carney's remake

 

[Kirkhill]

And, apparently, you get silicon, the new replacement for ancient stuff like iron and copper and gold, by reacting silica with coal, coke and wood chips and other carbon sources.

Since most Silicon Manufacturing wafers on which electronic devices are built are made of silicon, this material plays a crucial role in the semiconductor industry. Batches of silicon wafers are used to fabricate the microchips that power smartphones, tablets, computers, data centers, high-performance computing, and the internet. If you’re wondering how this semiconductor material is made, we’ve pulled together the critical steps of the silicon manufacturing process.

It’s important to note that silicon metal is produced from the reaction of silica and carbon materials such as coal, coke, and wood chips. While silica comes in metallurgical grade gravel, coal is usually of low ash content, and the woodchips are hardwood.

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And good quality sand and gravel is getting hard to come by.

 

[lenaitch]

I've never quite understood the proposal for "an east-west economic corridor". I always just assumed it was metaphoric. Except in the comparatively flat, wide-open prairies, I don't see the benefits for 'a' corridor. Roads, rails, wires and pipeline each handle geography differently and, outside of the flatlands, can probably take their own alignment more cheaply. Having greater east-west electrical connectivity is a fine ideal, but it's more complex than simply stringing wires. Connections between the east and west (as well as Quebec) require expensive equipment.

Also, why should the taxpayer fund ne rail corridors for for-profit railways when they seem quite happy with the ones they've got (and the profits they generate).

 

[Kirkhill]

I've never quite understood the proposal for "an east-west economic corridor". I always just assumed it was metaphoric. Except in the comparatively flat, wide-open prairies, I don't see the benefits for 'a' corridor. Roads, rails, wires and pipeline each handle geography differently and, outside of the flatlands, can probably take their own alignment more cheaply. Having greater east-west electrical connectivity is a fine ideal, but it's more complex than simply stringing wires. Connections between the east and west (as well as Quebec) require expensive equipment.

Also, why should the taxpayer fund ne rail corridors for for-profit railways when they seem quite happy with the ones they've got (and the profits they generate).

You are assuming the politics is less complex than geography.

The land may vary from region to region but it doesn't change over time.
Politics varies with both region and time.

John A MacDonald's Right of Way is still a valid model, a 24 mile wide strip.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I've never quite understood the proposal for "an east-west economic corridor". I always just assumed it was metaphoric. Except in the comparatively flat, wide-open prairies, I don't see the benefits for 'a' corridor. Roads, rails, wires and pipeline each handle geography differently and, outside of the flatlands, can probably take their own alignment more cheaply. Having greater east-west electrical connectivity is a fine ideal, but it's more complex than simply stringing wires. Connections between the east and west (as well as Quebec) require expensive equipment.

Also, why should the taxpayer fund ne rail corridors for for-profit railways when they seem quite happy with the ones they've got (and the profits they generate).

Not actually side by side, but a corridor which could be 75km wide, where a lot of the preliminary, route survey, geophysics, land ownership studies and preliminary Indigenous consulting. It also puts everyone who buys and wants to build there on notice that said infrastructure might be in the making. BC Hydro did that with a land reserve some 40 years ago for the area impacted by the Site C reservoir.

 

[foresterab]

Not actually side by side, but a corridor which could be 75km wide, where a lot of the preliminary, route survey, geophysics, land ownership studies and preliminary Indigenous consulting. It also puts everyone who buys and wants to build there on notice that said infrastructure might be in the making. BC Hydro did that with a land reserve some 40 years ago for the area impacted by the Site C reservoir.

There's also a few notices (crown land reservations under the Public Lands Act) in Alberta for possible hydro dam expansion too. Many provinces have these types of tools for dealing with public lands.

Private lands get much stickier due to appropriation laws/compensation. You don't want to fuel land speculation costs but at the same time identify corridors where key issues and solutions are identified - whether engineering challenges like rivers/lakes, hill cuts/road grades, First Nation key areas to protect/avoid, staging area road/rail heads for supplies or just pure economics.

Nothing worse than having the "cheap" route all of a sudden become the expensive route due to lack of foresight resulting in a subdivision or industrial complex in the way causing a major route/build change.

 

[lenaitch]

There's also a few notices (crown land reservations under the Public Lands Act) in Alberta for possible hydro dam expansion too. Many provinces have these types of tools for dealing with public lands.

Private lands get much stickier due to appropriation laws/compensation. You don't want to fuel land speculation costs but at the same time identify corridors where key issues and solutions are identified - whether engineering challenges like rivers/lakes, hill cuts/road grades, First Nation key areas to protect/avoid, staging area road/rail heads for supplies or just pure economics.

Nothing worse than having the "cheap" route all of a sudden become the expensive route due to lack of foresight resulting in a subdivision or industrial complex in the way causing a major route/build change.

I imagine most governments have similar levels of land use control. I know in Ontario the province can impose what it calls 'corridor control' which freezes land use for possible future highways decades in advance and long in advance of actual planning, surveys, etc. The only thing they can't encumber is FNTs (and I assume any federal land). We have a friend who has already received notice that her property has been encumbered for a highway expansion that is probably at least 20-30 years out. She won't live to see it and she can sell to them at any time (fair market) but she would have to move - they won't be a landlord.