I've got opinions. I've never participated in Earth Day (maybe, one year) because I don't think it achieves anything.
I think oil sands are on the way out, they seem to expensive, and I have a suspicion that's going going to change, and it seems as if the multinationals are selling up, and it's now Canadian companies who own them all.
Which means Canadians (and by that, I mean Albertans) can clean their mess up.
Of course, I'm dismayed the NoDAPL people didn't, you know, blow shit up. Vast tracts of the pipeline had no oil. Blowing it up, or whatever, would have worked. It's a big pipeline.
Now, it's there, it has dilbit flowing, and you can't do anything. And it's just a matter of time until there's an oil spill somewhere.
I believe Husky (or CNOOC/Nexen) has a spill rate four times the average on their pipelines because of the dillbit. But, it's okay, Exxon has developed a better pipeline material.
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Date: 2017-04-17 07:24 am (UTC)I've never participated in Earth Day (maybe, one year) because I don't think it achieves anything.
I think oil sands are on the way out, they seem to expensive, and I have a suspicion that's going going to change, and it seems as if the multinationals are selling up, and it's now Canadian companies who own them all.
Which means Canadians (and by that, I mean Albertans) can clean their mess up.
Of course, I'm dismayed the NoDAPL people didn't, you know, blow shit up. Vast tracts of the pipeline had no oil. Blowing it up, or whatever, would have worked. It's a big pipeline.
Now, it's there, it has dilbit flowing, and you can't do anything. And it's just a matter of time until there's an oil spill somewhere.
I believe Husky (or CNOOC/Nexen) has a spill rate four times the average on their pipelines because of the dillbit. But, it's okay, Exxon has developed a better pipeline material.
Now, if you don't mind, I have a reef to kill.