Allan To Deliver Pipeline Economic Impact Speech Tomorow
Monday, October 1, 2012 @ 10:30 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Tomorrow, economist Robyn Allan will be delivering the first of two scheduled presentations in the region, on the financial aspects of the proposed Northern Gateway twin pipeline project.
Allan has recently appeared before the Joint Review Panel hearings on the proposed pipeline, stating here case at the hearings that wrapped up in Edmonton last week.
The former head of ICBC maintains the pipeline would have negative effects on the economy including increased fuel prices and job losses.
She is scheduled to speak tomorrow evening at 7 at the Canfor Theatre at UNBC, and at 8 p.m. on Wednesday a the Mackenzie Recreation Centre and Library in Mackenzie.
The meetings have been organized by the Stand Up for the North Committee. Sponsors and endorsers of the sessions include CUPE BC, PPWC Local 9, Steelworkers Local 1-424, Faculty Association of CNC, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, North Labour Law Corporation, Citizens’ Environmental Advocacy Group, and the Sea to Sands Conservation Alliance.
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Thought it was interesting to see a big Northern Gateway banner greeting me at the Ottawa airport when I went to pickup my bags.
Lots of stuff about the benefits, nothing about the potential downside. I thought it would be funny for a group to pay for a banner to put right beside it that would show pictures of the unspoiled environment that the pipeline would be going through. Fair is fair :)
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money! All Harper’s Alberta Money….
NMG don’t forget the existing roads, railway, pipelines, powerlines, towns etc.
They probably think that the Northern Gateway is the Northwest Passage to China that is starting thaw for year round shipping …. move over Panama Canal. ;-)
Looking at the sponsors, I fully expect an unbiased analysis.
Looking at enbridge sponsers I fully expect an unbiased analysis from them as well…..goes both ways.
Once the Chinese can lay claim to a resource they take it literally. As in they have sovereign rights over said resources. That is why they shop for Canadian resource companies and their resource rights.
Remember these are state owned corporations an arms length from the communist party.
Ask Taiwan how China acts when it lays claim to a resource no matter how nebulous the claim. Just this year China invaded the Philippines to the horizon of Manila Bay to threaten for claims to fishing rights in Philippine waters… ditto for Vietnam… then they tried to strong arm the Japanese out of a couple of Japanese Island to lay claims to the mineral rights.
China plays for keeps… give them an inch and they claim the mile. That is why they are sending fishing fleets into the Arctic Ocean every summer since Harper was elected. They understand Harpers view of ‘enlightened sovereignty’ only all to well.
Once they start down that road it will be hard for us Canadians to do much about it once we give them legal authority.
http://www.iags.org/china.htm
People need to read this as a pipeline is not just a pipeline.
Eagle, any purchase of resource assets by China will and are subject to Canadian laws and regulations. comparing this to disputed boundry issues is apples and oranges. Having said that, i too have concerns with Government controlled entities from China being given the same standing as stand alone corporations from other nations.
The thing is a government controlled national entity is working for national interests. They can subsidize national markets at the expense of free markets when they control the resources and be damned with Canadian interests.
Look at how they use rare earth metals as a blackmail market manipulating tool to ensure China gains all the manufacturing superiority because of their favored access to those resources… they don’t operate on a free market principle and so our resource assets shouldn’t be for sale under those conditions.
I’m not arguing. China looks out for number one. A Sweedish company is different than a sweedish government sovereign. But any purchse of our aseets dosen’t give them sovereign control. It’s still ours. We can always pull a Argentina/Venezuala and nationalize them.
to think that China will regulate Gateway/Nexen because they throw money at it is fear mongering.
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