Here’s the scale of the problem: "Remediation of thousands of orphaned oil&gas wells and the eventual “clean-up” of the oilsands mines& tailings ponds -estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator to be as high as $260B or equivalent to all of the royalty revenue paid by the industry to Alberta from
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Things Are Good: Keystone XL is Dead, For Reals This Time
Protesting works! The absolutely foolish plan to make a massive pipeline to transport a heavily subsidized non-renewable energy source is dead. It is really dead. We’ve heard before that the project is over, only for it to come back to life. Obama and Trudeau both worked hard to ensure that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anti-carbon tax Government attacks hundreds of EV owners with a new tax
Saskatchewan Government will start charging EV owners $150 a year. The Minister who removed the EV incentive almost a decade ago took his next job as Canada’s top oil and gas lobbyist. If that doesn’t scream Conflict of Interest, what does? This is an “anti-#carbontax“, as it encourages people to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #Petrostate of the Province
You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official provincial opposition has nothing to say about it. This is the #CultureOfSilence I have written about — Emily Eaton (@emi_eaton)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Plague Of Pipelines
We have Canada's worst COVID handling, where's the Premier on that? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 18, 2021 With Biden apparently poised to pause KXL into oblivion, Saskatchewan’s hapless Premier Moe lashes out at Trudeau. The meme, a modified Kenney cartoon, was available prior to Moe’s latest predictable bleating.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Denmark: No More Oil from the North Sea
The largest oil producer in the European Union has banned all new oil and gas exploration in their territory. Denmark follows France and New Zealand in the banning of new exploration for destructive and climate-altering fossil fuels (who will be next?). The end of oil as a burnable resource is
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Importance of Mapping Fossil Fuel Companies
The Corporate Mapping Project in Canada tries to connect the dots between corporations, organizations, and governmental bodies in regards to the oil and gas industry. Despite all evidence that the tar sands are horrible for the planet the Canadian taxpayer continues to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. Why? That the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil
Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed. At the empty Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod. Apparently Albertans aren't heeding NDP lectures to "change their behaviour." pic.twitter.com/euc7vGk2ZH — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) January 4, 2017 Some people
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The United Conservative Party Screws Albertans, Again.
Here in Alberta I am really enjoying our neoconservative UCP government. They replaced a government that sough to balance economic investment and diversification with support of the public good. The UCP essentially tore up that balanced economic plan and went ‘all-in’ on ramping up the Oil & Gas industry and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had already corrupted too many. https://t.co/jbwxnjMkB2 — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) April 20, 2020 Oil prices turn negative for first time
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Albertans Want off the Oil Train … Eventually
A common opinion about Albertans is that when it comes to energy they are about oil and nothing but oil. Like most generalizations this contains some truth, but also like most generalizations it isn’t quite true. A CBC News poll, taken just before the pandemic changed everything, reported that 79
Continue readingThings Are Good: Renewable Energy Keeps Growing While Oil Companies Shrink
Without a doubt all business have been negatively impacted by the pandemic with some being hit more than others. The dirty and climate-destroying fossil fuel industry has really been hit hard (unfortunately it’s the workers who have been hurt by this and not the lying executives) and the industry isn’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Imagine Alberta Without Kenney
Imagine an Alberta government not under investigation for election fraud? One that doesn’t fire tens of thousands during a pandemic so Ottawa can pay them instead? A provincial government which doesn’t bail out sub-$4/barrel oil to the tune of billions, while cutting doctors’ pay. UBI Universal Basic Income would allow
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oil Men on Net Zero Energy
I don’t think I want to bother hearing what they have to say. What will 3 oil men tell you about Net Zero capabilities of Sask? Quite likely nothing of value to address the extreme emissions problem here. 'Keep on burning', is what they'll all say. Would you visit an
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oil Is The Reason For The Season?
Don’t you dare suggest that oil could be bad, the sensitive folks of Oxbow, SK might get up in arms. They’re having a tough time with work you see, the oil industry that once paid them handsomely to ruin their kid’s environment, now only ruins their kids’ environment without paying
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: OPEC Rides to the Rescue
Although Albertans have always thought of their enviable wealth resulting from entrepreneurship, hard work and the free market, that isn’t quite the case. We are an entrepreneurial place and we work hard, although no harder I suspect than other Canadians, but the free market hasn’t had all that much to
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Alberta—the Old South in the Cold North
Reading the book All God’s Children, I encountered a section about the relationship of the American South to the Union just prior to the Civil War. As I read on, I realized it was remarkably similar to the relationship of Alberta to our federation today. Prior to the Civil War,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Scotland Banned Fraking, Rest of UK to Follow
Fraking is really bad for all of us, it’s the process of using water to force dirty oil out of the ground. This practice destabilizes the ground causing earthquakes and the end result is more wasteful oil ultimately being consumed, which in turn, produces waste that gets released into the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Evil Men Destroying Our World Have Names
“What is happening here is a crime” – Brazillian fascist President accusing environmentalists of what he’s done. “I am not looking for who is responsible.” https://t.co/SoBmT90cDf — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 23, 2019 Remember to think well of the dead, even if they wished you and yours death with every
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A tar sands story
Canadian Natural Resources, Canada’s largest oil and gas producer, has set an ambitious goal regarding greenhouse gas emissions. It has announced that by applying advanced technology, including carbon capture and storage, it will attempt to reduce the emissions from its tar sands operations to effectively zero. A laudable goal. This
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