The cost of TransMountain pipeline!!

[Taiga]

TransCanada’s Coastal Gaslink to Shell’s
LNG also way over budget. Originally planned for $6.6B is now up to $14.5, and expected to cost an additional $1.5B if construction drags into 2024. Unions and token native involvement have destroyed these projects. Sabotagers openly bragging about their destructive activities.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/01/Activists-Sabotage-CGL-Pipeline/

As for TransMountain, I have followed the route from Jasper-Valemount-Kamloop-Merritt-Hope for 3 winters and the amount of excess manpower and equipment is mind blowing, just unbelievable waste. As mentioned, token native security guards, parked yellow iron on day rate, multiple light towers aimed at the same spot of ground running 24/7, traffic control (necessary), constant snow removal and r/w grading (huge snowfall area). Macro moves equipment non-stop between FSJ and Hope, I doubt they are eating that cost.

[blackpowder]

It's possible Kinder Morgan very happy to get out. Many of the costs would have been there for them. Regulations and milking the system are over the top.
Govt built a helipad at our local hospital this past year. 6 months and easily $800k. Still not quite done.
Dirt work and gravel base was 3 months. My crew would've been a week.
The general was blatantly milking. It was awful. Most seem proud of screwing the system and the rest don't get it.

[jazz]

Maybe our oil industry needs to think out of the box a bit. 100M MT of grain is trucked from field to yard, then yard to terminal and then terminal on train to the coast every yr.

If I calculate 5.5M bbls per day oil production, these guys are moving out 2.5 times our annual production by weight. If we add in our potash production and movement (which is all rail) and our fertilizer handling, I bet the numbers are equal.

Surely they could move out 1/10th of their production by truck and rail. We do it. And no new rail lines have been built in a 100 yrs.

[TOM4CWB]

To think about:






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[TOM4CWB]

Breakthrough:




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[TOM4CWB]

When we consider the $100’s of Billions invested in infrastructure in Canada each year… this pipeline is a drop in the bucket considering the Canadian future …

Roads, Power lines, Rail, Ports, Airports, Research in Agriculture, Industry, Space exploration, Armed Forces, Defence, Health Care: all these investments in the future… create prosperity for the future of our next generations… compared to countries like China… we are underinvested in our national infrastructure!

Blessings
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[TASFarms]

When we consider the $100’s of Billions invested in infrastructure in Canada each year… this pipeline is a drop in the bucket considering the Canadian future …

Roads, Power lines, Rail, Ports, Airports, Research in Agriculture, Industry, Space exploration, Armed Forces, Defence, Health Care: all these investments in the future… create prosperity for the future of our next generations… compared to countries like China… we are underinvested in our national infrastructure!

Blessings
Cheers

The trouble with the current govt is the bucket can’t handle all the drops that are getting thrown in it

[blackpowder]

THE SCARIEST PREDICTION EVER”
On February 2, 1905, American philosopher and writer (Russian-born) Alissa Zinovievna, better known in the literary world as Ayn Rand, was born in St. Petersburg, died in March 1982 in New York.
THESE WERE HER WORDS:
When you notice that to produce you need to get permission from those who do not produce anything; when you check that money flows to those who do not deal with goods but with favors; when you realize that many become rich by the bribery and for influence more than by your work and that the laws do not protect you against them, but on the contrary, they are the ones who are protected against you; when you discover that corruption is rewarded and honesty becomes a self-sacrifice, then you can assert, without fear of being wrong, that your society is doomed

—Ayn Rand