Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320

B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason' | CBC News

British Columbia Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of "treason," as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over a meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney Thursday.

CBC
Show threaddragonfrogJan 29
@chris The news is full of all these events the separatists are holding - people gathering signatures for most petitions are setting up outside civic centres and walking through parks and stuff, while the separatists are travelling the province and booking hotel conference centres. Where is the money for all this coming from?
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29
@dragonfrog oil and gas and the USA I'm sure.
Show threaddragonfrogJan 29

@chris I can't imagine the oil companies want independence.

They've gotten so much Canadian taxpayer money shoveled into them at every level. From memory TIMX is a $38 billion taxpayer subsidy to the oil industry - and growing, because it still charges well below the operating cost for every barrel of crude it moves.

The moment Alberta separates, Canada will stop subsidizing TMX operations.

So, it's gotta be the USA - making "treason" a very apt term innit.

Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@dragonfrog Most of the oil companies are American, so whether they get subsidized by the US or Canadian governments probably doesn't matter much at all. All they want is a regime that will keep their oil fields pumping, and right now the most oil-friendly regime outside of Russia and the Middle East, is Trump’s.
Jan 29 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threaddragonfrogJan 29

@chris Pumping through what pipeline though? Check out the "market access" section of this page https://www.aer.ca/data-and-performance-reports/statistical-reports/alberta-energy-outlook-st98/pipelines-and-other-infrastructure/pipelines

Of the total 851 m^3 / day pipeline capacity out of Alberta:

Enbridge - Eastern Canada / US via SK & MB = 532
Keystone - US via SK & MB = 97
Trans Mountain - west coast via BC = 141

Total that Canada can turn off the tap = 770 m^3 = 90.5%

Express - US direct = 49
Milk River - US direct = 16
Rangeland - US direct = 16

Total that Canada can't turn off the tap = 81 m^3= 9.5%

Pipelines | Alberta Energy Regulator

ST98 - Alberta is serviced by major export lines that provide the bulk of export capacity leaving the province.

Alberta Energy Regulator
Show threaddragonfrogJan 29
@chris Sorry, that's thousands of m^3 / day. What's a few orders of magnitude among friends eh?