Lol,, so what you saying is,,, you can't live without oil or gas. You would just as soon buy it from another country. Like the US that just backed out of the Paris agreement, that has shelved most environmental laws and will be going back into the Arctic to drill, they have no carbon tax, no stake in our country. None the less you would buy their oil so you could keep all your tanks full of the juice you are all so addicted to lol.
Lefties,, lol..
Not sure where you got your info on on where your NG is going, I'm sure some goes to the oil sands but believe me and I know I drill for it by the way, most of those companies could be easily self sufficient on NG and a good percentage of them are. I drilled NG wells for 5 years straight in southern AB for one of the biggest oilsands players, about 60% of it is used for themselves the rest the excess they sell off. I currently drill for one of the biggest players in your province, over 90% of our product goes through AB down to the Chicago hub. Total NG usage for oilsands production including all operations from camps to extraction is around 2.0 bill cubic feet /day, BC NG production is currently around 10 billion cubes /day is that a majority. Alberta itself produce around 9.0 bill cubic feet. In Alberta total gas sales to oil sands producers is around 29% of gas sales. In Alberta alone total usage of production by the province which includes oil sands sales is 50% the rest is sold off. Why would they sell it to a local company for $2.80 a gig Canadian dollars rather than the US for $3.20 a gig US dollars explain this one to me please cause I know we sure don't. But hey what do I know, I've only been in the business for 32 years, hey ask the Tyee they'll know lol.
But I could really careless about any of these lines. I'm in agreement personally I think there's enough lines and rails we can sustain a good living for ourselves out here and we are. Many lost jobs, many had to migrate back home to where ever it was they came from but for the most part local people did ok, we kept busy and we will continue to. It was all going to fast anyways, it doesn't hurt to scale it back some. There will come a day for it all, we'll extract it at a steady pace and keep going. We have a product the world is addicted to, a product the world economies are based on, whats the likely hood that's all going be thrown out the door in 8 years lol, not likely. Nope she's all good, let the people fight, let the politicians hold you all for ransom over broken promises, like politicians have anything to do with it anyways, their all just puppets and we are just fools to think they can. Tax payers dollars being sucked up in all of this, and for what, over lies.
The US is making two of the biggest blunders in natural recourse history and mark my words on this I know this business. First they are out drilling themselves. The Eagleford shale play will out play itself, their last big play the Bakken is already on a huge decline it's toast they emptied it hard. The same will be of the Eagleford, they will drain it within 10 years I give it, well of any significant resources. It's too much to fast, fracking is a blessing as well as a curse in this business. Our wells come on hard but do decline at a fast rate also. It's crazy how much we have to drill just to maintain production never mind increase it. I see the US being in dire need of recourses in 20 years. The second big mistake they are making and this is a huge one. Trump wants to sell off a huge amount of their oil reserves. He is talking about half, where is that going to leave them when it's gone and their resources are drained, in bad shape that's where. So why this rant, well who's their neighbour who's sitting on the 3rd largest oil reserves in the word,, you guessed it Canada. And we have the lines built to supply them or soon will. They will need us and they will buy it from us and do to the fact we are being held back from going hog wild at it, we will still have it in the ground. What we drill in Canada is a joke compared to how they go at it in the states, right now in the US there are over 900 rigs drilling, in Canada 99 it's not even comparable. They will run out, we will be left with ours in resource.
So really as far as I'm concerned I'm happy all this is taking place, it's great. Our oilsands ( and by ours I mean all Canadians we all stand to share in it ) and your natural gas recourses will sustain us as a nation for many many years to come.
One thing I will note. At one time if anything positive could be said of the NDP especially in BC is that they once stood up for the working man and the labourers, they backed unions and union work heck they were nothing more than a government of the unions. With this deal that they have made with the Greens they have thrown the working man out the door. They very well could throw out of the province billions in investment dollars, thousands of union construction jobs, hundreds of union shipping/port jobs, how many more tugs would be need in the ports all good paying union jobs, hundreds of line maintenance jobs, the list goes on, all lost. Where is the loyalty to the working man here. Not to mention what's going to happen if Site C is stopped. They are in there working now, hundreds of people on the job already How many jobs will be lost there. The court cases that are going to take place over all this, the billions of dollars that may have to be payed to these companies. Who's going to have to pay for all that, you guys will, not me or Albertans, BC tax payers will foot the bill. Deals were in place, promises made, these companies will not lay down and take nothing, you all will have to pay them for work not done. The NDP have abondoned their purpose and their roots to pander to the few that don't seem to care about jobs or understand where money to pay for the social programs we all hold so dear comes from. I just can't fathom this one, I really can't. This is from a financial stance not an oil and gas issue.
K I'm done, sorry for the grammar or spelling, take care.