Trudeau in the UK

[furrowtickler]

Furrow good to know you are on side with Harper about phasing out the use of fossil energy sources to reduce carbon emissions and your only concern is the time line.

Fair enough, we need viable alternatives before we make the transition. But that was a given no matter who leads. Because nobody is suggesting we can make the transition without something to replace fossil sources.

That's why coal generation is being phased out and replaced with gas, hydro imports and renewables. And Alberta is at the centre of an aggressive move to more solar and wind sources. All because their largely deregulated electricity market favors lower cost renewables because they make economic sense.

Yup but it’s the timeline being pushed by the eco nuts that is ridiculous . No doubt over time a transition will happen and it is slowly moving along . But the timeline being propagated is an economic disaster far worse than the dramatic over exaggeration of the climate change cult

[sawfly1]

One thing as the oil money rolling in , the oil companies can clean their orphan.
Without taxpayers help.
I might even get my last 2 years surface rights payments that has been deferred.

[furrowtickler]

One thing as the oil money rolling in , the oil companies can clean their orphan.
Without taxpayers help.
I might even get my last 2 years surface rights payments that has been deferred.

They are opening up some of those “orphaned” wells again from what I heard . $100 oil does that

[AlbertaFarmer5]

They are opening up some of those “orphaned” wells again from what I heard . $100 oil does that

Not orphaned wells necessarily, but wells that have been sitting unused for years or decades are being opened back up right here now.

[WiltonRanch]

Rig companies are having a hard time finding workers. All the easterners screwed off back east to vote for Trudeau and collect cerb. If all this bs about pipeline optimization is right and Mexican oil isn’t in USA pipelines then maybe we can speed up the shovels at Fort Mac. There’s months of work to bring old wells back online. They spent a couple years ripping every last piece of equipment off of every shut in lease to save tax. Heck I bet it’s a year of full out work before we see anything going on cold wells in heavy oil country.

[furrowtickler]

Yes hearing the same , can’t find anyone to work and most infrastructure has been stripped off from that Edam area so no quick fix at all.
By the time they get rolling , if they do oil may be back to $50-60 ? Who knows what the next year or two will bring .
But in the meantime high oil from several factors like over exaggerated climate policy to now the Ukrainian situation is going to be financially crippling but more importantly devastating to the Ukrainian people

[WiltonRanch]

Yes hearing the same , can’t find anyone to work and most infrastructure has been stripped off from that Edam area so no quick fix at all.
By the time they get rolling , if they do oil may be back to $50-60 ? Who knows what the next year or two will bring .
But in the meantime high oil from several factors like over exaggerated climate policy to now the Ukrainian situation is going to be financially crippling but more importantly devastating to the Ukrainian people

The SagD stuff is humming along. Never really quit. There were other projects planned but shelved because of pipeline deficiencies and the fact they were keeping the upgrader full with present production. Really still think we should be shipping most if not everything out of country at least upgraded to synthetic crude or in higher refined and higher value state. No money shipping raw products out. Thats the Russian economy in a nutshell with all the stealing along the way.

[furrowtickler]

These steam plants are going full throttle here and NW now .
That new rail loading facility is humming 10 miles north of NB
The amount of trucks coming in is unreal at times , every 10-15 min

[Guest]

But, but, but .. chuck said we don’t need oil anymore ???

[WiltonRanch]

But, but, but .. chuck said we don’t need oil anymore ???

The more this mess in Ukraine drags on I hope snaps the populace back to reality with regards to over doing the green agenda and shooting ourselves in the foot by mothballing our domestic energy production, manufacturing, agricultural production, and other resource extraction, and compromising our national security. My uncle from the territories says that if we don’t maintain our far north settlements no matter how small and expensive; the Russians will start planting flags. Even after Putin is burning in hell these risks will still be there.