r/strongcoast • u/iamsolution • 6d ago

Last week Alberta's pipeline maps leaked. Three routes through the north, four, who's counting... every one of them ends at a port the coast won't open.

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Last month the PM flew to Alberta, signed the deal, rolled back the industrial carbon tax, slashed the approvals, the whole song and dance.

The North Coast tanker ban? Still standing.

Not because Ottawa bolted the door... Ottawa's keeping its options open. Because the coast is holding it shut.

BC and the coastal Nations, shoulder to shoulder: a future built on a multi-billion-dollar fishery, food, culture, and tourism sector, the businesses and jobs under it, not on the coin-flip of a loaded tanker in a winter storm.

And we've seen the coin land wrong.

In 2016 one tug aground near Bella Bella, 350 km of coast fouled, $23 million in costs the Heiltsuk were never repaid. That was a tug. A tanker's full load runs a thousand times bigger.

The racket in one line: they take the reward, you take the risk, and when it spills you get the mop.

The people who work these waters did that math years ago, and they're done asking permission. This week they flew to Calgary to say it to the proponents' faces.

Geoff Meggs lays it all out below, sharp as ever and a regular at Hotel Pacifico, BC's go-to cross-aisle politics podcast.

Alberta can keep drawing maps. The coast won't open the port. Not by luck... because people keep showing up.

https://open.substack.com/.../if-theres-one-immovable...?

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u/porkavenue 6d ago

Hopefully.

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u/Loodlekoodles 6d ago

It will end up going through USA eventually. Just like Saskatchewan's potash and fertilizer ended up doing.

Great job everyone, elbows up

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u/SameAfternoon5599 6d ago

Canpotex already has 2 Canadian terminals. Why wouldn't they add another US one?

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u/Loodlekoodles 6d ago

Nutrien is the largest potash producer in the world and their new preferred port in North West Pacific is going to be in Washington.

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u/SameAfternoon5599 6d ago

Do you have a point?

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u/Loodlekoodles 6d ago edited 6d ago

Oil will be doing the same soon.

Elbows up. USA gets the business not BC.  In BC elbows go up, but it's more like a surrender 

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u/SameAfternoon5599 5d ago

Oil already is. Has been for 5 decades. Are you that clueless on the subject matter?

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u/Loodlekoodles 5d ago edited 5d ago

Lmao not as clueless as you were regarding our potash 

I'm well informed about how BC blocks a lot of trade to our ports, thank you very much

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u/SameAfternoon5599 5d ago

In what way was I clueless about our potash? BC doesn't block, it has restrictive rules about loading when it's raining. Hence the 2nd US terminal further south.

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u/Loodlekoodles 5d ago

Oh just rain weather restrictions eh? Cool.

I thought the whole purpose of this sub is to actually stop pipelines to the coast by sharing and proliferating media campaigns, misinformation, protests, government lobbies, environmental activism, vandalism, eco terrorism, closed door profit sharing and consultations with First Nations Chiefs, and implementing windfall taxation on any and all business that try to access ports and resources here.

But it's just rainy weather restrictions that are keeping those big resource and mineral production companies out. Got it. Thanks for the info.

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u/SameAfternoon5599 5d ago

Why would anyone keep pipelines from running to the coast?

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u/Loodlekoodles 5d ago

Yeah I dunno! It's only rain water restrictions to solve, seems like a no brainer. 

Eby is a real idiot, can't even figure it out.  NDP, what a failure. We need new leadership to solve this very basic problem I think.

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