{"id":30146,"date":"2025-07-08T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30146"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:00:36","slug":"pipelines-dancing-in-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30146","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Pipelines dancing in their heads…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pipeliners Moe\/Smith\/Carney Triptych<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PM Carney & Premier Smith in conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alberta Premier Smith transforming snakes into pipelines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBC NEWS November 24\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental laws and offer political support to a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast<\/strong>, CBC News has learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deal is set to be formally announced at a joint Carney-Smith news conference in Calgary on Thursday,November 27\/25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Premier Smith & Prime Minister Carney forgetting something?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Columbia Premier David Eby <\/strong>says he told Prime Minister Mark Carney <\/strong>\u201chow unacceptable\u201d it was for Alberta and Saskatchewan to talk with the federal government about a potential pipeline without input from his province. The pipeline fight escalated after Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe <\/strong>revealed he is involved in Alberta\u2019s negotiations with Ottawa about a potential oil pipeline across northern B.C., which would mean allowing oil tankers to ply the waters off B.C.\u2019s north coast, where they are currently banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prime Minister Carney and pipeline knot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eby says such treatment would not happen to any other province, adding that he expects Ottawa to include B.C. and Coastal First Nations as full participants in any future talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BC Premier Eby & Alberta Premier Smith <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way some fun facts…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Carbon Release:<\/strong> Fossil fuels are concentrated forms of carbon, stored underground for millions of years. When we burn them for energy, heat, and transportation, this carbon rapidly combines with oxygen to form CO\u2082.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Greenhouse Effect:<\/strong> These released CO\u2082 gases accumulate in the atmosphere, acting like a blanket around the Earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Planetary Warming:<\/strong> This blanket traps heat that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planet’s average temperature to rise\u2014a process known as global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    Also<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A predicted peak oil global decrease in demand for fossil fuels & Alberta oil sands bitumen; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the absence of a proponent with a costed business plan for pipelines; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the vulnerability of public tax dollars tied to such investments; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    alternatives, such as rail, to ship bitumen to northern tidewater could become more viable ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    falling oil prices driven by Saudi Arabia; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    increased global electrification overtaking fossil fuels\u2014particularly in the Global South\u2014led by China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia tidewater presently is operating at under capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the existing jurisdictional legal, indigenous, and environmental permissions process remains in question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    Court Painter & Portrait of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Court Painter & Portrait of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Court Painter & Portrait of Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Just in: To add more potential Fossil Fuel to a Burning Planet : news from Newfoundland <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ST. JOHN’S — Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Premier Tony Wakeham <\/strong>says he is heading to Ottawa later today (November 25) with demands for Prime Minister Mark Carney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Wakeham told a St. John’s business conference he wants Carney to designate Bay du Nord — a proposed offshore oil development by Equinor — as a major project of national interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The premier declared that Newfoundland and Labrador is “back in the oil business,”<\/strong> adding that the previous provincial government was reluctant to champion the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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