tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post5466176374893109173..comments2024-03-29T07:42:36.221-05:00Comments on The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog): Another Oil Play That Could Be Bigger Than The Bakken: The CanolBruce Oksolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952652803684625738noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-68606172586971434492013-02-05T19:39:08.908-06:002013-02-05T19:39:08.908-06:00I wonder if this link would suffice?
http://www.a...I wonder if this link would suffice?<br /><br />http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12722460-canadas-northwest-territories-premier-proposes-oil-pipeline-north-from-alberta<br /><br />For a primer on the issue, perhaps:<br /><br />http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/northwest-passage.htmBruce Oksolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952652803684625738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-67098137066536089232013-02-05T18:50:00.135-06:002013-02-05T18:50:00.135-06:00No link, but this week I read the NWT PM's sta...No link, but this week I read the NWT PM's statement encouraging sending Oil Sands oil north to export through the NW passage. Really.<br /><br />anon 1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-46151149649849287502013-02-05T09:37:14.360-06:002013-02-05T09:37:14.360-06:00I don't think a lot of folks would agree with ...I don't think a lot of folks would agree with points / theses by in David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years," but he has noted the same thing: capitalists seem to keep coming up with concerns about the world coming to and end: when the 1950's nuclear holocaust scare seemed to not be workable, he suggests "global warming" took its place as the "thing" to scare people. <br /><br />Interesting: coming from two very different viewpoints, and coming up with the same observation.<br /><br />I agree; it will be very, very problematic to build the infrastructure needed to get the NG and oil out of the Canadian Arctic.Bruce Oksolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952652803684625738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-6847804954827333352013-02-05T09:26:55.421-06:002013-02-05T09:26:55.421-06:00Before the arrival of horizontal drilling and the ...Before the arrival of horizontal drilling and the fracturing of shale it was thought the MacKenzie River valley of the NWT would be a major source of new natural gas. That is permafrost territory like a great part of Alaska is so the gas hydrates are frozen. I don't know but this could be natures form of cryogenics? There is even that pipeline put in to be part of delivering natural gas to the US with Alaska participating as well. <br /><br />These are all ideas that didn't happen because of easier access to gas closer to its usage in the lower 48 states from horizontal drilling and the fracturing of shale.<br /><br />Where there is gas there is the likelihood of of petroleum being around. This is my guess up there and it stands to reason because it is just a continuation of the hydrocarbon rich zones found east of the Rocky Mountains like the Williston basin.<br /><br />As far as infrastructure it would be pretty hard to develop. The scarcity of rich oil and gas areas is not the case any longer. It is truly a new day for energy. However it is good to know it is there. We don't have to use it right now.<br /><br />This should be used as a scam against the climate change global warming crowd. Maybe they will all go up there and live with the polar bears they want to protect and are so concerned about. Forget it, I wouldn't wish that on Canada.<br /><br />The era of scarcity is truly over and it was never the case. It was a part of a grand plan to plant fear in people. Fear is a good tool to use in controlling people.<br /><br />Another interesting day in the annals of the current energy revolution and green or so called renewables has little to do with it.CRCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-27531770720632615222013-02-05T06:46:20.936-06:002013-02-05T06:46:20.936-06:00Wow, isn't that the truth?Wow, isn't that the truth?Bruce Oksolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952652803684625738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-67013796230659643482013-02-04T23:40:26.041-06:002013-02-04T23:40:26.041-06:00Maybe this oil should be referred to as canola oil...Maybe this oil should be referred to as canola oil. maybe just as light but without the trans fat from the sands to the south.<br /><br />If you thought the Bakken transportation bottlenecks are a head ache, transportation from the North West Territory should be a major migraine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-26331135225633250492013-02-04T21:41:25.724-06:002013-02-04T21:41:25.724-06:00I'm finally getting it: "we" need bo...I'm finally getting it: "we" need both heavy oil and light oil. Light oil, pretty much, domestic. Heavy oil from OPEC or Canada. I guess this administration prefers heavy oil from OPEC over Canada. Sad. Bruce Oksolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952652803684625738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149283829854298377.post-83011248736157410902013-02-04T21:39:24.638-06:002013-02-04T21:39:24.638-06:00Absolutely no reason to import oil from regimes wh...Absolutely no reason to import oil from regimes who are enemies of who we are as a country. Of course it makes a lot of sense if you do not want to see this country prosper because if it does not fit with the one world order ideas shared by too many in this country.<br /><br />Go OH Canada our allied friend and close neighbor. <br /><br />We should stop importing oil from the creeps of the world.<br /><br /> CRCnoreply@blogger.com