{"id":6579,"date":"2018-04-11T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2018-04-12T00:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:56:14","slug":"just-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6579","title":{"rendered":"Just A Thought !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"\" data-bind=\"title\">Kinder Morgan\u2019s Blackmail<\/h1>\n<h6 data-bind=\"title\">Notley and Trudeau hint at propping up uneconomic pipeline with taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Money-Bags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Money-Bags.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Money-Bags-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Money-Bags-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-Money-Bags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-Money-Bags.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-Money-Bags-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-Money-Bags-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6594 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-A-Nikiforuk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-A-Nikiforuk.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-A-Nikiforuk-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Court-Painter-A-Nikiforuk-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-info clearfix\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"molecules\/text\/author-info\">\n<div class=\"author-info__text\">By\u00a0<a class=\"contrib-link\" title=\"Bio page for Andrew Nikiforuk\" href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Bios\/Andrew_Nikiforuk\/\">Andrew Nikiforuk<\/a> <span class=\"author-info__date\"><span data-bind=\"date\">Today<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0TheTyee.ca<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a moral world Canadian governments would admit that pipelines and tankers export refinery jobs and greenhouse gas emissions on a disastrous scale.<\/p>\n<p>In a just world Alberta would have to admit it has allowed industry to overproduce bitumen due to low royalties and <a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2018\/02\/09\/Sorry-Alberta-BC-Will-Not-Pay-For-Your-Bungling\/\">bad governance<\/a>. The province has no strategic plan for bitumen other than screaming for pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>But Canada, like its southern neighbour, is having trouble behaving normally, morally or justly these days.<\/p>\n<p>But Trudeau and Notley think its OK to embrace a debt-ridden U.S. company so it can export, via tankers, unrefined bitumen to Chinese refineries where the upgraded resource can enrich the authoritarian Communist party.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians should be more than ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>They should be alarmed. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icoft\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/ui\/img\/ico_fishie.png\" alt=\" [Tyee] \" width=\"12\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"filed-in\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinder Morgan\u2019s Blackmail Notley and Trudeau hint at propping up uneconomic pipeline with taxpayers\u2019 money. By\u00a0Andrew Nikiforuk Today\u00a0|\u00a0TheTyee.ca In a moral world Canadian governments would admit that pipelines and tankers export refinery jobs and greenhouse gas emissions on a disastrous scale. In a just world Alberta would have to admit it has allowed industry to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just A Thought !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}