It’s a Convoy

[jazz]

What exactly is planned once they get to Ottawa?
Obviously pictures with Andrew. But what else?

Let the trucks idle for a month in front of the commons. Especially outside mcKennas window.

[grassfarmer]

Its $10 a bbl going into the super saturated US market. Sure wouldnt be that going into a country that doesn't have its own oil production. Maybe if the US started to see few hundred thousand bbls a day swinging off the coast instead of the Midwest, that price would moderate as well. Once its offshore your price options open up considerable and that product becomes more valuable. This marketing 1010 stuff. This is no different than having different places to sell your grain.

Simply not true according to economists and industry analysts. There are no established markets in Asia for Canadian crude - and if there were they would be paying less than the US.
Here is a sample article reflecting that position and making the case that another poster highlighted - that California would be the likely destination if a pipeline were to be built - because they could tanker it to California cheaper than rail it.

http://www.mining.com/web/why-alberta-oil-will-be-california-bound/ http://http://www.mining.com/web/why-alberta-oil-will-be-california-bound/

Interestingly it concludes that established tar sand production is profitable above $10 a barrel which should maybe give pause for reflection. Is all the talk of oilfield calamity just big oil shooting for some corporate welfare and the convoy members are merely pawns in that game?

[LEP]

I wanna thank all involved in the convoy !

Axe the carbon tax !

Grain on the train !

Oil in the pipe !

Eat beef !

I think Wiseguy is Tony Beets. 😀

[WiltonRanch]

I think the same folks who want to land lock our oil are the same folks who want to shut down our ag industry as we know it too. Anyone who can be anti oil but be in an industry that makes use of the land no matter how much social license they think they have by whatever enviro friendly practices they use are delusional. The crackpots will not stop until we are all out of business and that will not be enough. Oil isn’t go away anytime soon nor is food. Just if we in the developed world keep chasing social licence to appease the wackos the third world will be feeding and powering us.

[katoe]

I was reading an article about the convoy and an unemployed rig worker from Red Deer and how tuff it was to be without work .Article caught my eye because it raises a question for me. In July one of our employees left us to go work on the rigs. He had never worked on them before.Aside from the usual temporary shut downs had worked fairly steady. and last week run out of work after working 40 days straight. Six days later being tomorrow hes off to Ft Mcmurray to work on another type of rig {wireline i believe}that he never worked on before. Hmmm. Whud up. Shouldnt there be enough unemployed rig workers that it would be tough for an unexperienced person to get a job? Just sayin

[walterm]

I was reading an article about the convoy and an unemployed rig worker from Red Deer and how tuff it was to be without work .Article caught my eye because it raises a question for me. In July one of our employees left us to go work on the rigs. He had never worked on them before.Aside from the usual temporary shut downs had worked fairly steady. and last week run out of work after working 40 days straight. Six days later being tomorrow hes off to Ft Mcmurray to work on another type of rig {wireline i believe}that he never worked on before. Hmmm. Whud up. Shouldnt there be enough unemployed rig workers that it would be tough for an unexperienced person to get a job? Just sayin

Radio Ad on southern AB station, for the last 2 weeks is saying Syncrude Oil in Ft Mac is looking for 1000 heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.

[the big wheel]

Radio Ad on southern AB station, for the last 2 weeks is saying Syncrude Oil in Ft Mac is looking for 1000 heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.

Some of them only work for a minimum wage.......
Like 500 a day or they do t work. That is true for some. Not a joke.

[farmaholic]

Some of them only work for a minimum wage.......
Like 500 a day or they do t work. That is true for some. Not a joke.

Some of those guys might have to lower their expectations like farmers are having to in regards to wheat and canola prices!

[WiltonRanch]

Radio Ad on southern AB station, for the last 2 weeks is saying Syncrude Oil in Ft Mac is looking for 1000 heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.

Lot of bs there. See signs up around town looking for rig hands, truck drivers etc. Guys phone to find they’re simply fishing to see what is out there for workers.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Lot of bs there. See signs up around town looking for rig hands, truck drivers etc. Guys phone to find they’re simply fishing to see what is out there for workers.

They are also now able to look for a higher standard of quality, whereas before a pulse was the only prerequisite, so there continues to be opportunities as the dead weight is weeded out.

Keep in mind that many of the people unable to find work are also unable to pass the drug tests, or aren't even smart enough to "study" for the upcoming tests.