New law would allow Alberta to restrict flow of oil and gas

Hate to spoil some people's dreams of fun and chaos but here's the gist of today's "free the beer" Supreme Court Ruling

Given that Kinder Morgan is as the left likes to point out, a private company which, will be the primary financial winner from the twinning of the pipeline this ruling does nothing to rectify the issue of Alberta refusing to send oil to BC.

Kinder Morgan isn't a province and isn't bound by any Supreme Court trade rulings between such. They, as a private company can legally refuse to send any oil from any jurisdiction down their existing pipelines and could even shut it down completely down and move on to greener pastures if they wanted to.

If Alberta is actually forced to send oil to BC I can pretty much guarantee that the only way it'll be getting here is by:

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I wonder how many extra trains a day it would take to bring in the same amount of oil as the Kinder Morgan pipeline is supplying to the lower mainland?

So, if he BC gov't keeps their obdurate attitude towards the pipeline Kinder Morgan may not just give up on twinning the pipeline but may actually shut down their whole operation in BC meaning that we'd have a tough time meeting demand for Alberta oil even if they were forced to ship it to us.

With the added hilarity of those extra trains having a carbon footprint worse than any pipeline in existence all thanks to those diesel electric engines. Oh well, it's only the hipsters on the coast that deserve not to be annoyed by industry, not those environment-hating rednecks and too-poor-and-uncool-for-Vancouver lowlifes in the interior that will see a massive increase in the number of trains rumbling by their towns, rivers, lakes, and cabins.

And the beer decision can't be used as a predictor of what will happen when Transmountain ends up in court. The beer decision involved mere inter-provincial regulatory stupidity between Quebec and New Brunswick, in that some dipshits in the NB government decided that a customer can't buy a stock of alcohol from Quebec in a protectionist move to protect liquor sellers in their own province, and to not have to lower their own tax take on alcohol to be competitive with prices across the border. The pipeline involves the federal government as final overseer of what happens and federal regulations are precedent over any and all provincial ones from either BC or Alberta. Entirely different scenario than the beer decision and it will be adjudicated accordingly.

Sometimes, the truth hurts...

Why are you posting pictures of trains? You couldn't even get one to carry grain or lumber today if you wanted to, so they're irrelevant to the conversation. Throw in there aren't 5000 oil cars laying around unused, double tracks trough the canyon or a train unloading facility or room for one at the Westridge tanker terminal. So how about giving up wasting bandwidth with the same meaningless bullshit every time there's a bump in the road.

But nooooo.... gotta go back to the same old shit.

Add in the national railway system to the long list of items that, just like the goddamn military, have been woefully neglected by our elected shitheads for far too long. :evil: