tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46383163797952370362024-02-19T00:47:58.117-08:00JUSTIN TRUDEAU PIPELINEAndrew Scheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975359844427853488noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638316379795237036.post-84302720834235294602020-01-13T18:57:00.007-08:002022-03-09T09:33:08.409-08:00<div class="descriptionwrapper">
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<a href="https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/alberta/the-history-of-albertan-oil-and-gas/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: &quot; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We had 100 years of Alberta oil</span></a><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Economic cheerleading by federal and provincial politicians and the mainstream media on behalf of the oil industry is doing the public a great disservice</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We have to stop Lying </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It’s time to tell the truth</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Because</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Canada has the highest debt levels in the developed world.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is no secret. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Canada is the world leader in debt. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Canada is #1 </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Canada should be one of the Richest Nations in the World </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In addition to oil.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Canada has many other valuable natural resources </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Here are the world rankings of Canada's natural resources:</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Oil, deposit #3 (production #6)</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Canadian budget makes it abundantly clear where its revenues come from</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It comes from you</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The vast majority comes from you and your personal income taxes.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is the first time in the history of Canada that a </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Make other Countries Richer, and Canadians Poorer</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The World is laughing at us</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The World Thinks what </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Canadian Government calls good business makes </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Trudeau is a laughingstock amongst World Leaders.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">He's just a puppet to Foreign Investors</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">He arrives in foreign nations preaching climate change,</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Gender equality, progressive trade, diversity and inclusion.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Some governments are politer than others in telling him to hit the road and mind his own business.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">He is not an emissary for the United Nations and does not speak for most Canadians.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Twice now Canada has voted in a Trudeau</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Every time Canada votes in a Trudeau </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Everyone in Canada Cries</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This time</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Your Children, Children will be </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Crying because they will have to pay for this </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Trudeau government is pushing an agenda that is designed to hurt our nation.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Trudeau’s energy policies</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Foreign countries win and Canada loses.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">“This is why the rest of the world is laughing at us,”</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Liberals apologize after hiding $183K in contracts awarded to environmental group</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Pembina Institute is an anti-oil institute that is doing the dirty work of the </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Federal Government at arm's length and the taxpayers are duped into paying for their dirty work.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Here we have the Liberal Government funding them as well and lying about the funding and all</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Liberals do is apologize after hiding $183K in contracts awarded to the environmental group.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Alberta's oil sands has the third largest oil reserves in the world, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Alberta's oil sands’ proven reserves equal about </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">165.4 billion barrels (bbl).</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Economist Robyn Allan told DeSmog Canada. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/03/15/insane-trudeau-government-exempts-foreign-oil-emissions-regulations-impose-canadian-oil/" target="_blank">Yet we’re spending billions each year on importing oil.</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Is trying to sell Canadians</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The pipeline to Asia is Trudeau's biggest lie </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This election divided Alberta and Saskatchewan into Conservative majorities</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For Canadians this was a Climate Crisis Election,</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">More than 63% of voters supported parties with substantial climate change platforms.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Canadian oil is held ransom to a single, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Monopsony buyer in the U.S. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At a huge discounted price; </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It's the 15 billion dollar Backdoor to Washington State </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">This will 100% guaranteed that</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“Virtually no exports go to any markets other than the U.S.,”</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It's Bankruptcy in Canada and Incredibly Profitable in USA</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Alberta's oil and gas industry may be $260 billion</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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</span><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/01/21/Trudeau-Government-To-Choose-Climate-Side/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=210120" target="_blank">Global Gas and Oil Network found that </a></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/news/2019/trans-mountains-puget-sound-pipeline-shipping-products-to-washington-state-refineries-since-1954" target="_blank">Since 1954</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline it never had anything to do with</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline has everything to do with enriching U.S-.based refineries with </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">No value added in Canada.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">This is what Trudeau's Government calls good business </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">And this is why Trudeau is so proud</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> Trudeau goal is to get the Cheapest</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">To U.S-.based refineries</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">This 100% Guarantees that every drop of</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Monopsony buyer in the U.S.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">To guarantee that U.S-.based Refineries</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Trans Mountain pipeline was intentionally understated.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Put all the costs together and the purchase of </span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">When 96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> (Even though no credible technology for cleaning up ocean oil spills exists.)</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Alberta's oil and gas industry may be $260 billion.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">That your children will have to pay for</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">When Ottawa purchased Trans Mountain it bought shares rather than assets, </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Which Allan says benefited the indebted Texas firm. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Yet Ottawa paid $3 billion for the existing pipeline and $1.5 billion for the expansion plans. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">the full $3 billion would have been considered by the CER in setting tolls,</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> The loss will rise to $3.4 billion per year over the next five years, she warns.</span></div>
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Yet another federal agency, sets the rates. </div>
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The regulator, known as the CER, set the rates for </div>
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Here’s the catch. </div>
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Rates are set based on pipelines’ operating costs and the asset value of the pipeline and related facilities, with the aim of ensuring a fair return for the owners </div>
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(and fair rates for the companies that ship oil or gas).</div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Allan found that by purchasing shares instead of assets,<br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2019/06/18/trans-mountain-expansion-will-fund-canadas-future-clean-economy" target="_blank">Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,</a> </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A presidential permit is needed because the project crosses a U.S. border.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Donald Trump issues new permit for Keystone pipeline</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Why is our Resource-Rich Canadian Government Always Poor</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Because</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Canada has one of the World’s </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Lowest oil royalty rate structures .”</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The royalties could amount to merely 1 per Cent</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/26/revealed-oil-giants-pay-billions-less-tax-in-canada-than-abroad" target="_blank"> “Canada is kind of a tax haven for Oil companies.”</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The low rate that oil companies pay in </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/26/revealed-oil-giants-pay-billions-less-tax-in-canada-than-abroad" target="_blank">Canada represents billions of dollars in potential revenue lost,</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alberta’s oil and gas companies have figured out how to pull off </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“bankruptcy-for-profit”— and it’s </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Biggest scheme of the century. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Industry manipulates the current system.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It's Bankruptcy in Canada and Incredibly Profitable in USA</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Canada allows big players to continue to scam the system,</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alberta is losing billions every year </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Just to Fight “Air Barrels” </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">As Prices Continue To Plunge</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The government estimates Alberta is losing</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">$80 million a day due to this discount,</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alberta will never be able to stop “Air Barrels”</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Instead of fixing the problems</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ottawa-gives-struggling-oil-sector-dollar16b-boost/ar-BBR87WT?ocid=spartanntp" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #cc4411; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives the oil sector $1.6B boost</span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Is building two more pipelines south</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Keystone XL pipeline and</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Trans Mountain pipeline</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Thanks to</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This will 100% guaranteed that</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“Virtually no exports go to any markets other than the U.S.,”</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Economist Robyn Allan told DeSmog Canada. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Most of it at a very steep discount.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">‘Essentially we are giving oil away for free’</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Plus</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion per year— approximately $1,650 per Canadian. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“Oil Companies in Canada will point to the jobs</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They are creating rather than acknowledge they could be sharing more of their profits,<br /><br />Which mostly goes to shareholders who are not even in this country,” </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alberta oil Jobs are backsliding</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent more of its workforce.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It's only 6 percent of the provincial total now.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Alberta employs about 140,000 people in the oil and gas sector </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The most obvious is the blowout in employment growth in the U.S. mining/oil and gas sector at 14.9 per cent since January 2017.<br /><a href="https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/jack-mintz-you-have-to-break-down-canadas-ugly-job-numbers-to-see-whats-really-wrong-with-our-economy" target="_blank"> Not true in Canada, where employment has fallen by 3.2 per cent</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It cost Canada over 6 million barrels of oil a year</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> To keep one person working </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">When the pipelines are build it will cost </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Canada 5 times or more </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Just to keep one person working </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alberta's oil patch?</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Cleanup bill is greater than the</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Value of the entire oil and gas industry</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> It's $260 billion</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Canada does not have the money so</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Your Children, Children will be </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Crying because they will have to pay for this </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">National Geographic said</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the world's most destructive oil operation and It's growing </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the Keystone XL pipeline and</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline is finish </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's Guaranteed to be </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most environmentally destructive Oil operation </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the history of man</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oil companies just plan to pour water on it</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Supreme Court of Canada says</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/supreme-court-redwater-decision-orphan-wells-1.4998995" target="_blank">Owners must deal with old oil wells so</a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The governing Alberta NDP and the official Opposition</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Told the provincial legislature Tuesday</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta’s oil patch isn’t an emergency now,</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4637652/multibillion-dollar-pricetag-to-clean-up-oilpatch-not-an-emergency-alberta/" target="_blank">Because they now over 70 years to </a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4637652/multibillion-dollar-pricetag-to-clean-up-oilpatch-not-an-emergency-alberta/" target="_blank">Figure out how to clean up their tailings and reclaim the land.</a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This is why</span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta policy unique in North America. </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Companies have no deadlines to clean up abandoned wells.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oil sands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because they now have over 70 years to </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Figure out how to clean up their tailings and reclaim the land.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oil companies plan to pour water on them</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is making Canada the laughing stock of the world</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What they are doing </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/11/23/oilsands-waste-is-collected-in-sprawling-toxic-ponds-to-clean-them-up-oil-companies-plan-to-pour-water-on-them.html" target="_blank">“It’s biologically and chemically an impossible fantasy,” </a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's all because Canada does not have the </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> $260 billion to clean up Alberta’s oil patch</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta is sweeping the problem under </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Bank of Canada listed climate change as a threat to the Canadian economy</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And by that measure the province is doing terribly.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its oil sands alone did more damage to the climate last year than the entire economy of B.C.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Alberta’s per capita carbon emissions of 62.4 tonnes dwarf those of</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The U.S. (15.53 tonnes) or even Saudi Arabia (16.85 tonnes). </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is why </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 countries in the</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is the Trans Mountain pipeline so valuable to</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://commonsensecanadian.ca/kinder-morgan-bait-switch-backdoor-pipeline-washington-state-refineries-save-trans-mountain-expansion/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">It's the Backdoor to Washington State </span></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trans-mountain-security-review-1.4761521" target="_blank">Because Canada purchased</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Puget Sound Pipeline as part of the $4.5 billion deal for the existing Trans Mountain line meaning the decision to expand the spur line will fall on Ottawa.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/news/2019/trans-mountains-puget-sound-pipeline-shipping-products-to-washington-state-refineries-since-1954" target="_blank">Trans Mountain’s Puget Sound Pipeline: Shipping Products to Washington State Refineries Since 1954</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to data from the National Energy Board, an average of 295,600 barrels of oil per day was transported on the Trans Mountain pipeline in March 2018, the most recent month of reporting.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">About 62 per cent of the oil went to Washington State via the Puget Sound Pipeline.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another 21 per cent went to the Westridge terminal, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington State’s Department of Ecology reported that between January and June 2018, an average of 163,500 barrels per day of oil was transported from Alberta via the Puget Sound Pipeline.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">All of the oil that made it to Westridge was “domestic heavy,” or diluted raw bitumen from Alberta.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s opposed to “domestic light,” which includes conventional oil and bitumen upgraded into high-quality synthetic crude — and is primarily shipped to Washington refineries via the Puget Sound Pipeline. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some diluted bitumen also arrives at Washington refineries by tanker or barge from Westridge, with more shipped to California.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Some oil is also transported from Alberta to Washington by rail.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2017 the state also shipped in 4,092,715 </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Barrels of product using Alberta oil trains.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Between January and June 2018, 1.55 million tonnes of crude oil </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">(the Port of Vancouver measures oil in tonnes rather than barrels) </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">was shipped from Westridge on tankers and barges.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Of that, 92 per cent went to the United States</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> While 4.8 per cent went to South Korea in April </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">And three per cent went to China in May).</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is an overall increase from previous years. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">For comparison, only 1.77 million tonnes of crude oil was shipped out of Westridge in all of 2017.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/news/2019/trans-mountains-puget-sound-pipeline-shipping-products-to-washington-state-refineries-since-1954" target="_blank">Trans Mountain’s Puget Sound Pipeline: Shipping Products to Washington State Refineries Since 1954</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Refineries in Puget Sound will do anything to continue to get all of the</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Cheapest crude they can get their hands on. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sending it by pipeline from the oil sands directly to the refinery </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's the easiest and the cheapest way to get crude here.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Canada Pay for it </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. west coast refineries are the most profitable in the world</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Due to a relatively captive market and lack of competition</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta oil processed by a coking refinery is much more </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Profitable than other types of oil in the world </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Up to $45 US per barrel </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">At Puget Sound refineries: $24 per barrel,</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Compared to $10 per barrel for Bakken oil and </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">$6 per barrel for Alaska oil.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Using the more conservative crack spread of $24 per barrel </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trans Mountain will create massive potential profits for west coast refiners. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Adding hundreds of highly-paid refinery jobs in the state.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">With an eventual capacity of 890,000 barrels per day, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. refineries could pocket $7.8 billion US per year adding </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">No value to Canadian crude </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vancouver also has some of the highest retail gasoline prices in North America.” </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/news/2019/trans-mountains-puget-sound-pipeline-shipping-products-to-washington-state-refineries-since-1954" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: quot; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Trans Mountain’s Puget Sound Pipeline: Shipping Products to Washington State Refineries Since</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1954</span></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline has a southern leg</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">called Puget Sound Pipeline </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which splits off at Kinder Morgan’s Sumas Terminal in Abbotsford, B.C. and delivers tar sands to several refineries in Washington State, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Including the Ferndale Refinery (owned by Phillips 66),</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Cherry Point Refinery (owned by BP),</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Andeavor Anacortes Refinery </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Shell Anacortes Refinery (owned by Shell Oil). </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Puget Sound Pipeline currently has a capacity of 170,000 barrels per day (bpd), but in the documents filed for its IPO in May 2017, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kinder Morgan indicated that they want to significantly increase that amount, according to </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">This has been the plan all along,</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">But there’s also speculation that Puget Sound could become an export terminal of its own.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a widely published June 3 op-ed for Postmedia newspapers, </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">a former B.C. Deputy Minister of Environment </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> decimated the Trudeau Liberals’ decision to buy </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and build its expansion project. </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">But instead of urging that the Trudeau government stop this controversial purchase,</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gunton stated this: </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Ironically, </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their purchase of the pipeline may provide them with <br />one last chance for changing course</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">If they insist on building TMX they could appoint a multi-stakeholder task force including</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> First Nations to consider redesigning the project to reduce its worst impacts by scaling down the size of the expansion and directing increased shipments to refineries in Washington State. </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">This would avoid tanker exports from Vancouver, </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Westridge terminal in Burnaby has serious depth restrictions that limit loading to Aframax-size tankers,</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> which can only be partially filled with about 500,000 barrels.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comparatively, BP’s Cherry Point terminal in </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington State’s </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whatcom County can receive Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC), with tankers docking in late 2017 </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carrying 900,000 barrels </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Almost double the capacity of Westridge.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reduce the number of Alaskan tankers </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">through Georgia Straight,</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">And allow for the phasing out of the higher risk aging pipeline.”</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">This suggested “redesign” to benefit </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington’s major refineries may have been the plan all along, or at least since</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">November 15, 2016 when Gunton’s former boss</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">B.C.’s former premier Mike Harcourt </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/trudeau-needs-pipeline-plan-b-to-kinder-morgan-route-ex-premier-harcourt" target="_blank">Suggested that Kinder Morgan and the federal Liberals “consider an alternate route”</a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> To avoid Kinder Morgan’s Westridge Terminal in Burnaby. </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Harcourt was here urging that the tarsands diluted bitumen (dilbit) be shipped</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">in order to avoid “insurrection” in B.C.</span></span></span><span face=", sans-serif" style="color: #003000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=", sans-serif" style="color: #003000; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/pipeline-system" target="_blank">Westridge Marine Terminal </a></span><span face=", sans-serif" style="color: #003000; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #003000; font-size: large;"> Located within Port Metro Vancouver the marine terminal is capable of accommodating ships up to </span><a href="https://www.transmountain.com/marine-plans" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f15a28; font-family: DINNextLTPro-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: color; transition-timing-function: ease; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Aframax-siz</span>e</a></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">“The reality is those Aframax boats are not great for interna</span><span style="font-size: large;">tional shipping,”</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The truth is</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/03/07/opinion/fatal-flaw-albertas-oil-expansion" style="color: #992211; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">The Port of Vancouver can’t even physically fit </a></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The size of tanker required to economically compete </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With other shippers of oil to Asia.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It cost 4 to 8 times more to ship oil from Vancouver to Asia</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Vancouver will never be one of those ports. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">No VLCC or ULCCs will ever arrive to offload foreign oil,</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Then upload Alberta bitumen for a backhaul trip to foreign refineries.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So the pending Trans Mountain pipeline plan to triple oil sands exports, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And increase oil tanker traffic under the </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lions Gate Bridge up to seven-fold, </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Is doomed.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So is the plan to expand oil sands output by 40 per cent. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">No amount of cheerleading, or demonizing, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.bcuc.com/Documents/Proceedings/2019/DOC_55253_2019-08-30-BCUC-Gas-Diesel-Inquiry-Executive-Summary.pdf" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">BC.Gasoline and Diesel Prices Inquiry said</span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline it never had anything to do with</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">“Virtually no exports go to any markets other than the U.S.,”</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Why aren’t companies shipping crude to Asian now?</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Because</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Alberta oil processed by a coking refinery was much more profitable than other types of oil in the world </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">At Puget Sound refineries: $24 per barrel,</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Compared to $10 per barrel for Bakken oil and </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">$6 per barrel for Alaska oil.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is why the Trans Mountain pipeline is so valuable to the U.S.</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">And they will do anything to keep it that way </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With a $260 billion bill to clean up Alberta’s oil patch</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Our nation has an employed population of 18.4 million, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Meaning the average working person would have </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To pony up $14,000 to pay for </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Alberta’s special relationship with the oil industry.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">How many booms and busts does it take for a </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Conservative government, in power for 44 years, </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To acknowledge they have failed to both recognize the need for alternate markets for our oil</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Trans Mountain pipeline</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Essentially we are giving oil away for free</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is why Canada will be the next Venezuela</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It's time to recognize that</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Alberta is a oil state, with all its advantages, </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">entitlements, hubris and decades of quid pro quo <br />between the oil industry and the people in power</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">For 44 years</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Conservative government has been</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Neglecting Alberta’s long-term well-being</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Nor is blaming the federal government</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(in power for just over one term) for the lack of pipelines. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To close to one per cent in the last few years; and yet the</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1650-per-canadian-its-got-to-stop/" target="_blank"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion per year— approximately $1,650 per Canadian. </span></a></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/12/20/Alberta-Vs-Canada/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201218" style="color: #cc4411; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta vs. Canada? </span></a></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">It's Jobs over the Environment</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-sputtering-economic-recovery-charts-1.4932034" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Alberta oil Jobs are backsliding</span></a></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In 2017, approximately 140,300 people were employed in Alberta’s upstream energy sector. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/09/Sorry-Alberta-BC-Will-Not-Pay-For-Your-Bungling/" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Last year, the oil patch shed 14 per cent of its workforce.</a></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://canadaistrulydivided.blogspot.com/2019/11/for-canadians-this-was-climate-crisis.html"><span style="font-size: large;">For Canadians this was a Climate Crisis Election,</span></a></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More than 63% of voters supported parties with substantial climate change platforms.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For Alberta, Saskatchewan, it was 100% Pipeline </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But Andrew Scheer and his party lost support in the riding-rich Greater Toronto Area, and more widely across Ontario and Quebec.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/17/analysis/andrew-scheer-big-oils-secret-weapon" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andrew Scheer: Big Oil's secret weapon</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says if the prime minister means what he said on election night about listening to the people of Alberta & Sask., </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The clearest way is to commit to pipeline's completion</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Kenney war room is another blatant political ploy against both climate science and free speech; ironically,</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/swann-stop-the-blame-game-albertas-plight-is-our-own-doing/ar-BBWRqPu?ocid=spartanntp" target="_blank"> It is partially funded by oil companies.</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Canadian producers want pipelines simply so they can capture the discount they currently lose on Canadian oil because their access is right now limited to only one export customer, the U.S.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Trans Mountain pipeline will only make Canadian producers problem worst </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the Trans Mountain pipeline is finish </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It would follow the existing secondary route from Sumas, B.C. into Washington state,</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Taking Alberta oil to the three existing refineries in Cherry Point and Anacortes, Wash.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Canadian oil would still be held ransom to a single, monopsony buyer in the U.S. at a discounted price; </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It will cost Canadians $10 to $15 billion to get the <br />Oil to the <br />Three U.S. refineries with no value added in Canada.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“About $90 million over the last 10 years</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Has gone towards various efforts to restrict oil and gas development and export</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In an effort to land-lock Alberta oil so it cannot reach overseas markets, </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Where it would attain a higher price per barrel.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for the most part, those who are most vocally against one ship a day serving</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Canadian interests happen to be the branch-plant operations of powerful </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the Liberals still need to find $10 to $15 billion to build the pipeline.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The maximum oil tanker cargo allowed through B.C.’s<br />Burrard Inlet is an Aframax class ship at 80 per cent capacity </span></span></span></div>
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Kinder Morgan pipeline and you’re left with a deal that makes no business sense to Canadians .</div>
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(The pipeline is 67 years old.) </div>
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<br />
Spend C$4.5bn (US$3.45bn) Plus<br />
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Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline</div>
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The existing 300,000 barrel per day pipeline</div>
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Export Development Canada’s administration of a nearly</div>
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$5 billion loan to support the government’s controversial purchase and operation of the </div>
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Trans Mountain pipeline a 67-year-old infrastructure</div>
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Kinder Morgan estimates the useful life of its pipelines at </div>
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Kinder Morgan pipeline is not worth much more than </div>
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It's all because Obama administration halted construction on </div>
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The remainder of the Keystone XL pipeline</div>
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A 800,000 barrels a day pipeline of crude to</div>
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Terminals on the Gulf Coast.</div>
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Arguing approval would compromise America’s effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.</div>
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s repeated claims </div>
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that the pipeline was essential for Canada’s future.</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/01/12/Trans-Mountain-Texas-Profits/" target="_blank">Declaring the Trans Mountain pipeline was a matter of national interest</a></div>
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The Pipeline has everything to do with enriching</div>
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U.S-.based refineries with no value added in Canada.</div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/myth-asian-market-alberta-oil/" target="_blank">Economist Robyn Allan told DeSmog Canada. </a></div>
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“Virtually no exports go to any markets other than the U.S.,”</div>
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<a href="https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/canada-dreams-of-oil-exports-to-asia-but-california-beckons" target="_blank">Most of it at a very steep discount</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-data/data-analysis/energy-data-analysis/energy-facts/crude-oil-facts/20064" target="_blank">96% of Canada’s oil exports go to the U.S.</a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2018/11/23/Alberta-Policy-Problems/" target="_blank">Canada's Problem Isn’t Pipelines</a></div>
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<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4711132/rachel-notley-toronto-board-of-trade/" target="_blank">‘Essentially we are giving oil away for a free</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUltZmKqfmM" target="_blank">If this does not end Canada will be the next Venezuela</a></div>
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This Pipeline will only make Canada's problem worst </div>
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Oil will only go South to</div>
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U.S. refineries with no value added in Canada.</div>
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This is why</div>
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The Five Big Canadian Companies</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/28/Election-Nears-Suncor-Quiet/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=280819" target="_blank">Suncor, CNRL, Cenovus, Husky and Imperial </a></div>
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Together they now control almost </div>
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Control approximately 90 per cent of the </div>
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Therefore, the wholesale gasoline and diesel market is an oligopoly.”</div>
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These companies control all 15 primary storage terminals in the province “and, along with </div>
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Federated Co-op Limited, control all the Bulk Terminals.</div>
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The companies’ dominance makes it effectively impossible for competitors to enter the market, the report found.</div>
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“This oligopolistic wholesale market has the characteristics of a natural monopoly,” </div>
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<a href="https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/alberta/the-history-of-albertan-oil-and-gas/" target="_blank">We had 100 years of Alberta oil</a></div>
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Canada should be one of the Richest Nations in the World </div>
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In addition to oil.</div>
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Canada has many other valuable natural resources </div>
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Here are the world rankings of Canada's natural resources:</div>
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Potash, #1</div>
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Uranium, #2</div>
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Oil, deposit #3 (production #6)</div>
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Nickel, #4</div>
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Diamond, #5</div>
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Salt, #5</div>
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Zinc, #6</div>
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Gold, #9</div>
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Copper, #9</div>
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The Canadian budget makes it abundantly clear where its revenues come from</div>
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It's not from Canada's natural resources </div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/26/revealed-oil-giants-pay-billions-less-tax-in-canada-than-abroad" target="_blank">Plus Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad</a> </div>
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It comes from you</div>
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<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tax-dollars-1.4545415" target="_blank">The vast majority comes from you and your personal income taxes.</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/gabriel-yiu/resource-rich-canada-is-poor_b_8047124.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: &quot; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">This is why our Resource-Rich Canadian Government is Always Poor</a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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Today Canada is just teetering on the boundary</div>
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<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/these-countries-are-drowning-in-debt/ss-AAHNlPz?ocid=spartanntp#image=5" target="_blank">Canada's national debt today is hitting 90% of GDP </a></div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/11/01/what-would-it-cost-to-clean-up-albertas-oilpatch-260-billion-a-top-official-warns.html" target="_blank">Plus a $260 billion bill to clean up Alberta’s oil patch</a></div>
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Today our Current Outstanding Public Debt of Canada is approximate: </div>
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697,735,366,381.26 CDN.</div>
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<a href="https://www.debtclock.ca/" target="_blank">Canada's National Debt</a></div>
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<a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/government-debt-to-gdp" target="_blank">Canada Government Debt to GDP </a></div>
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Alberta</div>
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<a href="https://www.alberta.ca/royalty-history.aspx" target="_blank">It wasn’t until 1973 </a></div>
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That the province tied royalty rates to the volatile price of oil.</div>
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Today Alberta </div>
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Will be $67 billion of debt by the time the </div>
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<a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-rachel-notleys-other-big-nemesis-albertas-debt/" target="_blank">NDP face voters in 2019</a></div>
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Alberta is on pace to be $96 billion in debt by 2024</div>
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<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-hydro-annual-report-1.4783891" target="_blank">Manitoba Hydro's burgeoning debt surpasses $19 billion</a></div>
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This is a dramatics change in fortunes for a province </div>
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That celebrated being debt free 20 years earlier</div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-spending-more-than-we-really-earn-since-1970/" target="_blank">Alberta: spending more than we really earn, since 1970</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/moody-s-alberta-credit-rating-1.5383294" style="color: #771100; font-family: quot; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Moody's downgrades Alberta's credit rating, </span></a></div>
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<a href="https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/opec-oil-exports-to-canada-rebound-in-2016-as-u-s-producers-seek-new-markets" target="_blank">Canada imports 759,000 barrels of oil per day at full market price </a></div>
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Canada Buys back the oil at Full Market Price </div>
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<a href="https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/opec-oil-exports-to-canada-rebound-in-2016-as-u-s-producers-seek-new-markets" target="_blank">54 per cent – of all Canadian oil imports come from the USA</a></div>
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<a href="https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/opec-oil-exports-to-canada-rebound-in-2016-as-u-s-producers-seek-new-markets" target="_blank">Canada is spending billions each year on importing oil</a></div>
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<a href="https://theleap.org/portfolio-items/five-things-that-will-blow-your-mind-about-albertas-oil-and-gas-wells/" target="_blank">“It's Bankruptcy-for-profit”</a></div>
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The Alberta government collected more</div>
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<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-gambling-revenue-expected-to-outstrip-oilsands-royalties-1.779547" target="_blank">And alcohol Sales</a></div>
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That it did in royalties from oil companies </div>
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Canada is now Number ONE in the world for Subsidies</div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies-amount-to-1650-per-canadian-its-got-to-stop/" target="_blank">Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion per year— approximately $1,650 per Canadian. </a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/09/Sorry-Alberta-BC-Will-Not-Pay-For-Your-Bungling/" target="_blank">Canada has one of the World’s lowest oil royalty rate structures .”</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/gabriel-yiu/resource-rich-canada-is-poor_b_8047124.html" target="_blank">The royalties could amount to merely 1 per Cent</a></div>
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Warned the government that low royalties for bitumen simply encouraged </div>
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The industry to export the heavy oil to </div>
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U.S. refineries with no value added in Canada.</div>
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That is exactly what they are doing </div>
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It's Bankruptcy in Canada and Incredibly Profitable in USA</div>
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The growing discount has cost Alberta’s provincial treasury dearly </div>
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<a href="https://www.alberta.ca/index.aspx" target="_blank">“Preliminary Fiscal Evaluation of Alberta Oil Sand Terms.”</a></div>
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Canada’s non-renewable energy resources </div>
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Calgary Oil and Gas Execs want to keep it that way this is</div>
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Why</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/14/Calgary-Oil-Gas-Execs-Backing-Scheer/" target="_blank">They're Backing Scheer</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.bcuc.com/Documents/Proceedings/2019/DOC_55253_2019-08-30-BCUC-Gas-Diesel-Inquiry-Executive-Summary.pdf" target="_blank">BC. Gasoline and Diesel Prices Inquiry said</a></div>
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Canada oligopolistic wholesale market has the characteristics of a natural monopoly</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/05/Only-Regulation-Will-End-Gas-Price-Gouging-Critics-Say/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=060919" target="_blank">It's the lack of Competition and Gouging to</a></div>
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Because of "Air Barrels" </div>
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Alberta is losing billions every year </div>
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To Fight “Air Barrels” </div>
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<a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Alberta-To-Fight-Air-Barrels-As-Prices-Continue-To-Plunge.html" target="_blank">As Prices Continue To Plunge</a></div>
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The government estimates Alberta is losing</div>
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$80 million a day due to this discount,</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/11/28/Air-Barrels-Pipeline-System/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=281118" target="_blank">Industry manipulates the current system.</a></div>
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Alberta will never be able to stop “Air Barrels”</div>
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Instead of fixing the problems</div>
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<a href="http://richinwriters.com/tag/ottawa-gives-struggling-oil-sector-1-6b-boost/" target="_blank">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives the oil sector $1.6B boost</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2019/11/19/trans-mountain-received-320m-in-government-subsidies-in-first-half-2019-report.html" target="_blank">Trans Mountain received $320M in government subsidies in first half 2019</a><a href="https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/in-2018-oil-went-from-portfolio-stalwart-to-portfolio-destroyer-can-it-recover-in-2019" target="_blank"> </a></div>
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“The Big Five” </div>
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Were performing relatively well </div>
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"incredibly profitable corporations," </div>
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Banking and paying out to shareholders</div>
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$13.5 billion last year.</div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/12/20/Alberta-Vs-Canada/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201218" target="_blank">Alberta vs. Canada? </a></div>
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It's Jobs over the Environment</div>
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<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-sputtering-economic-recovery-charts-1.4932034" target="_blank">Alberta oil Jobs are backsliding</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/11/01/what-would-it-cost-to-clean-up-albertas-oilpatch-260-billion-a-top-official-warns.html" target="_blank">Stunning internal documents from Alberta's Energy Regulator estimate the cost to clean up Alberta's oil and gas industry may be $260 billion.</a></div>
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<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4617664/cleaning-up-albertas-oilpatch-could-cost-260-billion-regulatory-documents-warn/" target="_blank">$200 billion more than has been publicly reported</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.canadasoilsands.ca/en/explore-topics/tailings-ponds" target="_blank">In 100 years this is all that has been Invested in Clean up</a></div>
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For decades, the oil industry denied climate science or that global warming was caused by burning fossil fuels. </div>
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Today, they acknowledge climate change is happening,</div>
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but are doing everything possible behind the scenes to ensure no action is taken, according to<a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/14/news/exclusive-carmakers-among-key-opponents-climate-action" target="_blank"> InfluenceMap.</a> and everyone in Canada </div>
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This “soft” climate denialism appears to have been embraced by Scheer and the Tories.</div>
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Anyone close to industry knows the</div>
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Western Sedimentary Basin is virtually empty and conventional companies have been losing money since 2009,</div>
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Transferring low-producing wells to junior companies,</div>
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With growing numbers taking what they can and walking away</div>
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from clean-up obligations;</div>
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Again, our governments continue to turn a blind eye to the contractual clean-up obligations of the oil industry.</div>
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Government and its so-called “arms-length” regulators </div>
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(specifically the Alberta Energy Regulator)</div>
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have been captured by the industry and the </div>
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is now lost in a sea of insolvencies, begging for public money.</div>
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Ironically, this lack of foresight, integrity and political will have contributed to distrust and loss of confidence from investors.</div>
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<a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-are-canadas-oil-sands-infographic/" target="_blank">How Big Are Canada’s Oil Sands?</a></div>
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The Alberta Tar Sands have been dubbed the largest </div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/14/canadas-shameful-environmental-secret-tar-sands-tailings-ponds" target="_blank">And most destructive </a></div>
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Industrial project in human history</div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/problem-alberta-s-growing-oilsands-tailings-ponds-worse-than-ever/" target="_blank"> Tailings Ponds is Worse Than Ever</a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/05/15/Oil-Sands-Tailing-Ponds-Time-Bomb/" target="_blank">Oil sands Tailing Ponds Ticking Time Bomb for Canadians</a></div>
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The Cleanup bill is greater than the value </div>
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<a href="https://www.aer.ca/" target="_blank">Of the entire oil and gas industry </a></div>
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‘Hidden danger’:</div>
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Owners must deal with old oil wells so</div>
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Alberta’s oil patch isn’t an emergency now,</div>
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Because they now over 70 years to </div>
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Figure out how to clean up their tailings and reclaim the land.</div>
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To shut down emergency debate on the issue,</div>
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While Suncor’s mine will close down in 2033,</div>
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Figure out how to clean up their tailings and reclaim the land.</div>
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The oldest mining company in the Canadian tar sands. </div>
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Suncor will get an additional 70 years after their operations</div>
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Environmental mess that they have created over </div>
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60 years of oil extraction. </div>
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Canada's most shameful environmental secret </div>
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They have been granted until after 2100 to </div>
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Figure out how to clean up their tailings and reclaim the land.</div>
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It could take nearly 300 years for the industry to abandon </div>
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Oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site clean up </div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/many-of-albertas-reclaimed-wells-arent-actually-reclaimed-government-presentation/" target="_blank">It's Automatic Approvals</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwoRivP17A" target="_blank">Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/boom_bust_and_consolidation" target="_blank">Paris Agreement obligations for the year 2050.</a></div>
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Canada was just ranked 51st out of 60 countries in the</div>
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<a href="https://germanwatch.org/en" target="_blank"> 2018 Climate Change Performance Index</a></div>
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Weighed down in large part by a certain oily elephant north of Edmonton. </div>
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<a href="https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/counterpoint-why-we-believe-canada-must-stop-oil-expansion-even-if-world-demands-rising" target="_blank">Bank of Canada listed climate change as a threat to the Canadian economy</a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/17/Climate-Crisis-Election-Who-Dares-Name-Big-Oil/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=170919" target="_blank">Who Dares Name Big Oil the Enemy?</a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/04/02/Climate-Report-Wake-Up/" target="_blank">That’s 7 degrees in Canada,</a></div>
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/04/02/Climate-Report-Wake-Up/" target="_blank">Referring to the fact we’re warming at two times the rate of the rest of the world. </a></div>
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“That’s catastrophic levels of change in a short period of time.”</div>
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This is making Canada the laughing stock of the world</div>
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This is not normal':</div>
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<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/this-is-not-normal-alberta-suffered-second-worst-wildfire-season-on-record/ar-AAJX35J?ocid=spartanntp" target="_blank"> Alberta suffered second worst wildfire season on record </a></div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-taxpayers-footing-bill-for-delinquent-oil-and-gas-companies-investigation-reveals/" target="_blank">Alberta taxpayers footing bill for delinquent oil and gas companies,</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/where-earth-stores-its-carbon?utm_source=Editors_Picks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks100619" target="_blank">Here’s where Earth stores its carbon</a></div>
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<a href="https://aboveground.ngo/edc/fuelling-extreme-oil/" target="_blank">Fuelling the oil sands</a></div>
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<a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-pension-plan-investments-rely-on-oil-and-gas-companies-overshooting-climate-targets-new-report-reveals/" target="_blank">Canada Pension Plan investments rely on oil and gas companies overshooting climate targets</a></div>
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<a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/canada-losing-30-bn-year-tarsands-oil" target="_blank">OIL SAND TRUTH</a></div>
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Canada subsidized the fossil fuel industry to the tune of almost $60 billion — approximately $1,650 per Canadian.</div>
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Today it will cost you to clean up</div>
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Alberta's oil patch? $260 billion</div>
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$200 billion more than has been publicly reported.</div>
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In 100 years only $1.2 billion has been invested in Clean up</div>
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The Cleanup bill is greater than the</div>
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Value of the entire oil and gas industry</div>
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Canada does not have the money to clean up the oil fields so</div>
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Canada is sweeping the problem under Water</div>
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Because there is shockingly poor regulatory oversight and lack of ambition on </div>
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Tailings management progress in Alberta,</div>
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Tailings Ponds are Worse Than Ever</div>
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<a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/" target="_blank">National Geographic said<br />This is the world's most destructive oil operation</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/" target="_blank">And It's growing </a><br />
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This comes just as a new report out from the<br />
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<a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/01/21/Trudeau-Government-To-Choose-Climate-Side/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=210120" target="_blank">Global Gas and Oil Network found that </a><br />
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“New oil and gas development in Canada between now and 2050<br />
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Alberta policy unique in North America. </div>
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Companies have no deadlines to clean up abandoned wells.</div>
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Oil sands waste is collected in sprawling toxic ponds.</div>
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To clean them up, oil companies plan to pour water on them</div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/11/23/oilsands-waste-is-collected-in-sprawling-toxic-ponds-to-clean-them-up-oil-companies-plan-to-pour-water-on-them.html" target="_blank">“It’s biologically and chemically an impossible fantasy,</a>” said</div>
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David Schindler, a former University of Alberta professor<br />
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Two Alberta courts previously ruled that private creditors of bankrupt </div>
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Were first in line for liquidated assets, </div>
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Ahead of its obligation to pay for environmental cleanup.<br />
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This is the problem of taxpayers and Landowners.</div>
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The oil and gas companies aren’t setting aside the money to clean up </div>
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Their own Mess</div>
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Guess who is going to pay for it? </div>
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You guessed it: The rest of us so</div>
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<a href="https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/cost-of-government-debt-in-canada-2017" target="_blank">The Cost of Government Debt in Canada, 2017</a></div>
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In 1974 the Basel Committee was established by the central-bank</div>
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Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which included Canada. </div>
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A key objective of the Committee was and is to maintain </div>
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“monetary and financial stability.” </div>
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To achieve that goal,</div>
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The Committee discouraged borrowing from </div>
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A nation’s own central bank interest-free</div>
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All in the name of “maintaining the stability of the currency.”</div>
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Our Current Outstanding Public Debt of Canada is approximate:</div>
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$629,572,079,450.28 CDN.</div>
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Rather than creating money through the Bank of Canada interest-free.</div>
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Canadian taxpayers have paid one trillion, </div>
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($1,100,000,000,000) in interest on the federal debt to private lenders.</div>
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This accumulated debt was monies borrowed to service the debt,</div>
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Essentially a payment of interest on interest </div>
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To understand how ridiculous the present situation is,</div>
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Consider the 1993 Auditor General of Canada report </div>
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<a href="http://qualicuminstitute.ca/federal-debt/" target="_blank">(Section 5.41)3 which states:</a></div>
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This “subsidy” to the private lenders must end.</div>
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The solution to this problem is simply for the government to stop borrowing <br />
money from private lenders at interest and borrow from the </div>
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Bank of Canada at no interest. </div>
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The private banks should also be prevented from creating money. </div>
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That right should be returned to the People of Canada </div>
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Through the Bank of Canada.</div>
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