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Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1) 31

Its been discussed since the 60's? But it never goes anywhere.. Bundle exporting oil Eastward via Manitoba with providing hydro export for Manitoba westward and it might work. If we can power oil and gas development with clean hydro power from Manitoba instead of burning coal, it's a win.

There's some activity on this front, but for the most part Manitoba can only export Hydro to the US. We can sell power to California, but there's no direct way to sell it Calgary. That seems crazy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-saskatchewan-hydro-transmission-line-1.5432158

Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1) 31

Nobody wants a pipeline in their backyard is the moral of the story. The conservative forces of Alberta which perpetually portray themselves as victims, and are hostile to the rest of Canada are not helping to convince Canadians to put up with one. As I see it, any attempt for revenue sharing from the pipeline is seen by them as "stealing from Alberta". They are not doing a good job of selling these projects. With Churchill, there is potential for mutual benefit.

Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1) 31

could easily build / upgrade a rail link or pipeline to Churchill Manitoba

Easily? I think it's obviously the best shot for getting oil to Europe, but it's not going to be easy. There's several factors that make it a great idea, including

* the fact that Churchill recently was recently completely isolated due to a lack of infrastructure.

* It could be paired with infrastructure to bring Manitoba's abundant clean Hydro electricity to Alberta which currently relies on a lot of coal burning.

* We should be doing what we can to increase our infrastructure toward the North, given the current Russian aggression which includes at our Northern border (the north pole). Example: Norad said it tracked the supersonic bombers as they flew through Canadaâ(TM)s air defence identification zone, which is an area of international airspace the military monitors to protect against any possible attack, but did not scramble fighters to intercept the Russians.

The problem with building anything on top of the permafrost is the ground is not stable.

Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1, Insightful) 31

I would rather the private sector built TMX, but a lot of people were determined to make it incredibly difficult.

It was being built by the private sector, and it was the previous government's attempts to make it easier that caused the new approval process that it underwent to be ruled invalid.

What is it that you are claiming the current government did to make it incredibly difficult? The Liberals let that existing process complete, then gave it approval. It was the supreme court that said the environmental assessment was garbage, and the FN consultation was garbage. That happened prior to Liberals being elected. They werent even the official opposition prior to that, the NDP were.

Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1) 31

They didn't have to purchase the project - they chose to.

That's what I'm saying, in contradiction to your statement that they are "vocally and demonstrably anti fossil fuels for some time". This demonstrates otherwise.

I would argue the former government didn't really screw it up. They operated under the paradigms established for decades. The governments changed the rules on everybody in mid flight - in fact, very late in the flight.

Well, the way I remember it.. The Harper Conservatives promised to streamline the approval process for pipelines to make it easier to get these things done. The new super ultra fast approval process was thrown out before it could ever approve a single pipeline and the process had to start over under the old paradigms established for decades, prior to the Conservatives meddling with it.

Example:

Bill C-38 shows us how far Parliament has fallen
(April 30, 2012)
Bill C-38, introduced in the House last week, calls itself, innocuously, âoeAn Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures.â
...
The bill runs to more than 420 pages. It amends some 60 different acts, repeals half a dozen, and adds three more, including a completely rewritten Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. It ranges far beyond the traditional budget concerns of taxing and spending, making changes in policy across a number of fields from immigration (among other changes, it erases at a stroke the entire backlog of applications under the skilled worker program), to telecommunications (opening the door, slightly, to foreign ownership), to land codes on native reservations.

The environmental chapters are the most extraordinary. Along with the new Act, they give cabinet broader power to override decisions of the National Energy Board, shorten the list of protected species, and abolish the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act â" among âoeother measures.â For much of this the first public notice was its inclusion in the bill.

The supreme court threw all this in the trashbin, before the new process could be used for anything. At that point all the investors walked away from the only pipeline that ever tried to get approval under the new process.

Comment Re:Ridiculous ask, poor incentives. (Score 1) 31

The federal government has been vocally and demonstrably anti fossil fuels for some time.

They have, and they haven't. This government had to purchase the transmountain pipeline project when all the investors walked away after the previous Conservative government screwed up the approval process and our supreme court threw it all in the trashbin the very first chance they got. They could have just let it die at that point.

They have promised to end all subsidies for oil and gas development, but they've yet to actually do that despite promising it in 2015.

Comment Re:So it begins... (Score 2) 142

If you had never seen an Amiga or Mac or Acorn then Windows 3.11 must have looked pretty impressive.

Yes. My Amiga 500 from 1989 has spent a lot of time in a lot of closets over the last few decades but we've dusted it off and I'm finally getting around to upgrading it to 1 whole megabyte of RAM with ECS graphics... Its amazing to me that there is so much new hardware and actively developed modifications for this thing 30+ years later.

PiStorm
RGB2HDMI
2MB Ram expansion for A500
Minimig
Etc..

Comment Re:The federal Liberal government? (Score 1) 71

Then the Liberals should resign (again) and hold an election (again) so they can get a majority (or fail again)

Why on Earth would they do that? The Libs and NDP had virtually identical platforms last election. Together they received 50.44% of the popular vote. They have a VERY strong mandate to move forward on these policies that the MAJORITY of Canadians voted for.

Sour grapes suck. I know, I watched our economy sputter for a decade under Harper's austerity. Nothing outside of Alberta mattered. Today we're back to record low unemployment, steady job growth, wages going up. The chicken little CPC party keeps telling us the sky is falling and they'll prop it back up. But it's actually going a LOT better than when they were in charge last, with a LOT more challenges present.

We were constantly in a recession under Harper, it was always the economy in Greece or some silly thing that was the problem. Meanwhile the US economy was growing gangbusters at the same time. The only economic downturn we've had under Trudeau was the beginning of the pandemic.

Comment Re:The federal Liberal government? (Score 2) 71

Except that's not actually true. Two parties can have a formal agreement to move forward with policy that they both support, without having a coalition government. There are no New Democrats within this government, it's the same government we had a month ago, and the same one we elected 8 months ago or whatever. You can pretend any thing you like, bit it doesn't make it so.

Comment Re:Hate Plex - I switched to Jellyfin last year (Score 1) 108

Incidentally there are a plethora of web pages offering partial workarounds, like this

I missed this line with that same link... You already know how to do this?? It makes sense that you have to disable authentication through Plex servers if you want to access media when Plex can't reach Plex servers... Doesn't it?

Comment Re:Hate Plex - I switched to Jellyfin last year (Score 5, Informative) 108

You just need to Disable Plex Authentication on Your Local Network. I put a Plex server on my Macbook with an external hard drive containing a bunch of our library and enabled wifi hotspot for an extended roadtrip last summer. It worked great without any internet access at all. The kids could watch whatever they want on their devices with headphones.

Comment Re:But: thermodynamics (Score 1) 165

The article has a link to a carbon capture facility in Scotland..

The facility will extract the equivalent carbon of 40 million trees annually.

Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to maintain the 40 million trees? It really seems like there's a more reliable technology available that builds itself, and requires no electricity whatsoever.

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