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Post by jdredd on Apr 10, 2013 14:59:23 GMT -5
Yes, I know it's an old joke to talk about the "Canadian Threat", but more and more It seems that Canada is listed as the country investing money for energy development around the world. Here on this continent, of course, Canada wants to ram a pipeline through the Midwest to transport it's dirty butimen. Not that I have a lot of sympathy for the Red State Midwest, they deserve what they get. But still, why should we suffer for the Greedy Canadians?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 25, 2013 23:13:42 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/opinion/nocera-canadas-oil-minister-unmuzzled.html"The last time your friendly scribe sought an interview with Joe Oliver, Canada’s minister of natural resources, he was turned down flat. It was February last year. Oliver had made a series of impolitic remarks about the efforts to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which, if it’s ever built, would import oil from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast — and which Canadians believe that the United States would be nuts to reject." "Which is not to say that Oliver — and Harper — didn’t have other means to send a message. After President Obama, looking to shore up his base, temporarily delayed the Keystone pipeline — an action that stunned Canada — the Canadian leaders jetted to China for a series of meetings with Chinese officials. Thanks to the Alberta sands, Canada is sitting on the third largest oil reserves in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. “That oil will be sold,” says Oliver, “if not to you, then to somebody else. That is not meant as a threat. It is just a fact.” As you can tell by now, Oliver is talking again. With the election over; with a presidential decision on Keystone imminent; with the pipeline rerouted to mollify the concerns of Nebraskans; with the State Department having issued a recent report saying there are no environmental impediments — with all of that as the backdrop, Oliver came to New York and Washington earlier this week to preach Canada’s energy message. " Sounds like a threat to me.
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Post by jdredd on May 2, 2013 23:51:36 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/20135321312218166.html"Guatemala declared an emergency in four southeastern towns on Thursday, suspending citizens' constitutional rights in an area where deadly protests over a proposed silver mine have erupted in recent weeks. Guatemalan president Otto Perez announced the move in an effort to quell protests targeting the mine belonging to Canadian miner Tahoe Resources Inc. Two people have been killed in the demonstrations. The company's security guards shot and wounded six demonstrators on Saturday, said Mauricio Lopez, Guatemala's security minister. The next day, protesters, who say the Escobal silver mine near the town of San Rafael Las Flores will contaminate local water supplies, kidnapped 23 police officers, Lopez said. One police officer and a demonstrator were killed in a shootout on Monday when police went to free the hostages, said Lopez."
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Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2014 17:41:57 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-keystone-xl-climate-state-department-20140131,0,7560529.story#axzz2s1BGAqvw "Supporters of Keystone XL said the final environmental assessment should clear the way to getting a permit. “Five years, five federal reviews, dozens of public meetings, over a million comments and one conclusion -- the Keystone XL pipeline is safe for the environment,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry trade group in Washington. “This final review puts to rest any credible concerns about the pipeline’s potential negative impact on the environment. This long-awaited project should now be swiftly approved.” So the greedy Canadians will probably get to ram their pipeline down the throats of Midwesterners, because frankly we aren't using fossil fuels up nearly fast enough. What do I care? I'll get gas even cheaper than it already is, and if they trash the Midwest, not my problem. Damn red states deserve what they get, which will be a energy boom followed by the inevitable bust. But I'll be long gone by then...
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Post by Turk on Jan 31, 2014 19:13:55 GMT -5
I've been chatting with this woman from Nova Scotia and she is definitely a threat to my promise of monogamy. other than that, the Canucks are ok.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 1, 2014 0:00:19 GMT -5
I've been chatting with this woman from Nova Scotia and she is definitely a threat to my promise of monogamy. other than that, the Canucks are ok. BAD Turk.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 4:34:56 GMT -5
Who is Justin Beaver?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 24, 2014 3:16:45 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/el-salvador-worldbankpacificrimoceangoldmining.html"Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador. Canadian-based transnational mining corporation Pacific Rim sued El Salvador for failing to authorize an extraction permit after the company allegedly invested millions in the exploration of the El Dorado mine in the northeastern province of Cabañas. The controversy has ignited a debate over whether disputes between countries and corporate investors should be adjudicated in national courts or international tribunals." It's not just the Keystone pipeline that those sneaky Canadians are trying to foist on unwary foreign countries...
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Post by Tired in CV on Apr 27, 2014 2:54:00 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/el-salvador-worldbankpacificrimoceangoldmining.html"Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador. Canadian-based transnational mining corporation Pacific Rim sued El Salvador for failing to authorize an extraction permit after the company allegedly invested millions in the exploration of the El Dorado mine in the northeastern province of Cabañas. The controversy has ignited a debate over whether disputes between countries and corporate investors should be adjudicated in national courts or international tribunals." It's not just the Keystone pipeline that those sneaky Canadians are trying to foist on unwary foreign countries... Yeah, it's not like they need employment there. That's what the U.S. is for! Come to the U.S. and make much more than they can there, send some home and they live like kings. Who needs a job at home so they can spend time with their family!
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Post by jdredd on Aug 26, 2014 10:38:01 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/business-28939538"Burger King has confirmed that it plans to buy Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, for about $11bn (£6.6bn; 8.3bn euros). The deal would create the world's third-largest fast-food chain, with 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries." "The firms have said that any new group would have its headquarters in Canada, where corporate taxes are lower. These so-called "tax inversion" deals are attracting increasing criticism in the US, where President Barack Obama is understood to be looking at how they can be prevented in future. The US corporate tax rate is 35%, but 26.5% in Ontario, Canada, where Tim Hortons is based." If Burger King is going to be a sneaky Canadian company in order to cheat on it's taxes, it will no longer be getting my fast food dollar.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 26, 2014 20:51:07 GMT -5
Though it will be amusing to see all the sarcastic versions of the Burger King "King" people are creating as I write...
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Post by jdredd on Nov 6, 2014 4:57:48 GMT -5
It looks like the new GOP House and Senate majorities' first or second priority is getting the Keystone Pipeline, which I guess they think is some panacea for curing our economy. As I have said, what do I care if they trash the red state Midwest? The lower energy prices go, the less motivation for oil rigs to sprout up off California's beaches, which I DO care about, and even then not for much longer.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 20, 2014 2:13:16 GMT -5
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/why-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-probably-won-t-be-built.html "Congressional Republicans can stage as many high-profile votes on Keystone XL as they like, but they can’t force Calgary-based TransCanada to build it. And if you look at the challenges now facing the pipeline, the biggest hurdles aren’t political, they’re economic. Indeed, the pipeline’s soaring costs, coupled with rapidly falling global oil prices, and soaring domestic oil supplies, may well prove more dangerous to Keystone XL than a Megabus-load of Bill McKibbens. Add in a big slug of new rail-terminal capacity that is available to move crude out of Alberta to refiners, and it becomes clear that for all of the furor over Keystone XL, the transport capacity that the pipeline might provide matters less now than it did during the Bush administration, when the project was first proposed. Earlier this month, TransCanada said that the cost of the 1,179-mile pipeline has dramatically increased since 2008. The company now estimates it will cost $8 billion, nearly 50 percent more than the $5.4 billion projected six years ago. Those higher construction costs will mean higher costs for companies who want to use the pipeline to ship their crude to market." I don't think I would ever stop laughing if those sneaky Canadians pulled the rug out from under the pro-pipeline zealots. The present oil glut was the worst thing that could happen to the "drill baby drill" clowns.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 14, 2015 17:38:57 GMT -5
www.thenation.com/article/194809/poor-guatemalans-are-taking-north-american-mining-companies-and-have-bullet-wounds-pr"Twenty-four miles southeast of La Puya, the town of San Rafael Las Flores sits in a high mountain valley near a tributary of the Los Esclavos River, a snaking waterway that feeds the region’s many small farms. The river is named after the local Xinca indigenous group, whose ancestors were enslaved by Spanish invaders during their bloody conquest of Guatemala and neighboring El Salvador. Then, as now, the foreigners were searching for gold and silver.Perhaps there’s something of this bitter memory in the opposition that Tahoe Resources Inc., a Canadian silver company, has met among residents there. The company’s Escobal underground mine—a fence-lined compound of underground tunnels and gray processing plants—received a twenty-year exploitation permit from the Guatemalan government in April 2013. Through its subsidiary, Minera San Rafael, it is currently pulling about 3,500 metric tons of silver out of the ground each day, and it recently announced a mine expansion to increase that number to 4,500. The company also has rights to 2,000 square kilometers of land that it plans to explore. In the first nine months of 2014, Tahoe’s operations earned it more than $100 million. “Before we got there, there was no mining in the area,” says Ira Gostin, a vice president at Tahoe. “By hiring locals and training them how to be underground miners and process plant workers, we have created a mining culture and a safety culture that did not exist before.” He says he’s seen a “positive and dramatic difference” in the community. But many residents in San Rafael Las Flores and neighboring towns view the company as an intruder, and an impassioned coalition of community organizations and rch groups is peacefully resisting its presence in their territory. “They say they are welcome here, but no,” says Oscar Morales, an agricultural engineer who leads the Committee in Defense of Life and Peace, a group founded in the parish rch in San Rafael Las Flores. “Many, many people have repudiated the construction of this mine.”
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Post by jdredd on Feb 2, 2015 2:23:44 GMT -5
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