I hate being right sometimes.

Another train loaded with oil derails.


Don't say I didn't warn you.  There is a direct cause for this accident we don't yet know.  Indirectly, the cause of a trains full of oil rolling night and day is Barrack Obama, Warren Buffet, and every ignorant anti-pipeline jerk you hear. 

It's not that trains are unsafe because of their cargo.  It's that there are so many more of them that don't need to be there.

Redford's Keystone messaging could lead to failure for Alberta

Tom Harris has a message for Alberta Premiere Allison Redford in his article: Smart messaging needed to avoid pipeline lobbying failure.  Harris laments Alberta's Keystone pipeline messaging saying "a supposedly conservative government feeds the fire that threatens to destroy the province’s, and indeed the country’s, main source of wealth, their vast hydrocarbon resources" and of Allison Redford that "her approach is doomed to failure." 

The article identifies Harris as the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.  He's put together an excellent well reasoned video you can watch below.



(h/t WUWT)

What's wrong with preaching nonsense to the nonsensical?  Why not serve gobbleygook  to the gook gobblers?  Well because its a waste of time. 

Pandering to the ridiculous only reinforces it.  It's better to appeal to higher reasoning than to stoop to the level of sloganeering battles.  They sloganeer to appeal to the ignorant in the first place.  The antidote to ignorance is clarity on reality, not learning to speak the mongrel noises of the irrational eco-nut.

By trying to appease climate alarmists and using their own nonsensical and incorrect language in a vain effort to win them over Redford is conceding victory.  They don't have a rational reason to oppose Keystone.  Its pure symbolism.  Keystone is a proxy for their larger war.  They don't care if Keystone is better for the environment.  They care about scoring a victory against "big oil."  There is no circumstance where the success of the pipeline will include the symbolic victory they seek. 

Eco-nuts are the enemy. 

I make a distinction against Eco-nuts and people like us who love the environment.  You can't call yourself Canadian and not be in love with this beautiful land.  We are people who respect the land and work hard in our responsible and bountiful economy.  We are the target audience and we share these values with Americans. 

Eco-nuts are lost.  There is nothing we can say to sway them.  Perhaps losing their illogical Keystone battle is the first step to their rediscovery of reason but that is a path they have to walk themselves.  Approving Keystone will help the average person and that is who we need to be speaking to.

Allison Redford will be speaking to the anti-Keystone Brookings Institute in Washington next week.  It will be live streamed but you have to register. 

Whatever happens to Keystone will have major political and economic repercussions in Alberta, Canada and the United States.

Put Aside Partizanship for the Pipeline

Canada is united in the quest to build the Keystone XL pipeline.  Alberta is also united.  All of us wish the best of luck and success to Premier Redford in getting KXL approved.  I'd like to see all parties and all levels of government doing their utmost to get it done.

Now is not the time to be Liberal or Conservative, Wild Rose or Progressive.  We are all Canadians and we all have a stake in getting this pipeline built.  Billions are lost annually in government revenue alone and that is just a percentage of the actual output of the economic engine of the country. 

The Avro Arrow debacle coloured the perception of Canadians toward Americans for a generation.  The KXL question makes the whole Avro Arrow legend look like an overblown pipsqueak of a dirty trick in comparison. 

Back then we understood American motivations.  Now?  You can deal with a stable adversary but an unstable ally is dangerous even to himself.  The KXL is so obviously in America's own interest that their hesitation boggles the mind.  If national borders were continental plates then a third rejection of KXL will be a tectonic shift in our relationship. 

Each and every objection from the eco-nut movement is groundless.  Each objection is based on ignorant pejorative exaggerations towards a purely symbolic and ineffective end.  They shall not contain The Oilsands nor does our Ethical Oilsands need to be contained at all.

Even now the Obama administration struggles not with their dismal economy or international relations, but with which set of client special-interests, the unions or the eco-nuts, will have to take the medicine.  It's appalling and pitiful. 

Luckily I'm not on CAPP's diplomatic mission.

Allison Redford went to Washington Sunday with CAPP to try help and get KXL approved.  She also wrote an op-ed in USA Today.  I applaud her efforts.

During the Alberta election debate there was an infamous moment where a question about climate change was asked.  Danielle Smith fell into the trap saying "the science isn't settled."  Oops.  Dog whistle.  While the science is far from settled, politicians need to realize that this is a religious question and should be treated as one.  You don't go and say there is no Santa just because there isn't one.  You say: "Climate Change is absolutely real and we should do everything we can to deal with it" or something like that.  Not a single lie in that statement but most leftards won't catch on and the ones who do will only sound silly trying to warn the others.  Baby steps my friends.

Getting back to the point: as a result of the question Redford implied that a Progressive is best suited to talk to the leftish people blocking the KXL pipeline.  I was hoping KXL would be approved on day one of a Romney presidency and enjoy a glorious return to prosperity for the world. 

That however was not in the cards and so here we are with plan B.  Its showtime Redford.  Lay that progressive newspeak on thick.  Peter Kent is doing an excellent job as well and so is John Baird.  All of you keep the pressure on, opposition politicians included.  Everybody heave together.  We'll remember who doesn't.  There is going to be hell to pay if this deal fails.