{"id":6737,"date":"2018-05-02T04:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2018-05-02T04:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:42:35","slug":"just-askin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6737","title":{"rendered":"Just Askin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre id=\"article-title\" class=\"article__title node__title\"><em><strong>Journalist Paul McKay posed these questions in a April 26,2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>National Observer article<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0\r\n<\/em>Media Malpractice and the Bitumen Bubble<\/pre>\n<div class=\"byline byline--main\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Where are the Asian contracts to buy vastly more raw bitumen for decades? What price have they promised to pay? How does that square up with competing, global oil supply rivals?<br \/>\n\u2022<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6741 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-pxm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-pxm-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-pxm-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What proof is there that Asian refiners have signed contracts to purchase vast volumes of Alberta raw bitumen for decades to come? If these do not exist, there is no demand.<br \/>\n\u2022 What proof is there that Asian refiners are willing to contractually commit to a much higher price than U.S. refiners will pay for raw Alberta bitumen? If such contracts do not exist, there is no price certainty to support oilsands expansion.<br \/>\n\u2022 What proof is there that Alberta bitumen ranks high in global comparisons of oil quality, price, and ocean supertanker access, shipping costs and speed?<br \/>\n\u2022 Which private Big Oil players have recently placed big bets buying new, undeveloped oil sand properties, which would underpin Alberta\u2019s expansion plans?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-please.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-please.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-please-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Business-Plan-please-768x547.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Paul McKay posed these questions in a April 26,2018\u00a0National Observer article\u00a0 Media Malpractice and the Bitumen Bubble Where are the Asian contracts to buy vastly more raw bitumen for decades? What price have they promised to pay? How does that square up with competing, global oil supply rivals? \u2022 \u2022 What proof is there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=6737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just Askin&#8217;&#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-6737","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\/6737","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=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}