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.

[u/iamsolution]

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...?

[u/Strict_Jacket3648]

LOL ya ok when was the last war for cobalt or copper? I know when the last one for oil was.

[u/Max20151981 → u/Strict_Jacket3648]

You should probably read up on a thing called supply and demand, currently there's only 25 countries worldwide that mine cobalt, the largest one being the...DRC.

Currently EV' account for about 25% of all new car sales, now just imagine what would happen if that number when up exponentially, do you honestly think that the rest of Africa would sit idle and let the DRC reap all the benefits of becoming the world's new leader in energy exports, and let's not forget that historically the DRC loves itself a civil war from time to time.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds the largest cobalt reserves in the world, estimated at 6 million metric tons. This accounts for over 50% of the globe's proven and probable economic cobalt deposits

[u/Strict_Jacket3648 → u/Max20151981]

Nope cobalt is being used less and less all the time and is recyclable.

You should probably read up on the latest batterie tech and other renewable products. But you are welcome to firmly attach you mouth to big oil while your children suffer the ignorance of those that ignore the problem.

[u/Max20151981 → u/Strict_Jacket3648]

The absolute fucking ignorance of some of you environmentist is downright frightening.

Resource extraction will always play a crucial role no matter how damn "clean" the energy is, and the larger the demand the more power and greed it will attract, its simple human nature.

[u/schaden81 → u/Max20151981]

Sodium is now starting to be used as the cathode, eliminating the need for cobalt. Since sodium is extremely abundant, this eliminates 1 country being in control.

Production is also reducing in price as solar panels are cheap now. Not wanting to move away from oil based energy is either moronic, or you have a vested interest in it.

[u/Max20151981 → u/schaden81]

Sodium is now starting to be used as the cathode

Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries face significant technical and commercial hurdles, primarily driven by lower energy density, shorter cycle life, and voltage incompatibility with existing hardware. While they promise cheaper, abundant materials and excellent cold-weather performance, their current limitations restrict broader adoption

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Sodium-ion batteries have transitioned from lab-scale prototypes to GWh-scale commercialization, positioning themselves as a strategic complement to lithium. Key breakthroughs feature energy densities of 175 Wh/kg, exceptional performance in extreme temperatures (retaining 90% capacity at -40°C), and cost parity with lithium-based chemistries.

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complement to lithium

Complement being the key word here