Good luck stupid.
Cheers

Ha ha ha . Also defined as an “exercise in fulility”, to put my spin on it. Ditto on the luck, pal.

“fuTility”. Oops! Faulty keyboard.

The NDP will call for a moratorium on fracking. I don’t see how anyone but a Liberal candidate can win in the Peace Country.

Anyone who thinks it is futile, doesn’t get out of Prince George very much.

Get back to me on this. I don’t see the turnip truck driving away. I must still be on it.

Right that the people in the Peace region have a hate on for PG… they feel PG takes all the credit and gets all the rewards. So if this guy is anti-PG he just might get the vote… not sure they liked the HST up there very much either though.

Blair Lekstrom was a major of Dawson Creek when he ran for the liberal party. He has been elected twice now. I doubt a NDP candidate can make in that riding, no matter how much damage the liberals have done.

Guess it’ll look better to have ‘someone’ on the Opposition side of the Legislature after the next election.

The people of the Peace River district have a lot to be happy about, and now the Site C megaproject worth $8 billion 6 miles from Fort St. John. Yes, they’re happy campers. And what are we doing down south? Trying to kill a big pipeline project… so many losers in this city, including the city council who should be supporting Enbridge big time. A big pipe job like that is great for our economy and they know it, but they don’t want to offend the academics on the hill and the rest of the non-contributors to our economy…

The people of the Peace River district have a lot to be happy about, and now the Site C megaproject worth $8 billion 6 miles from Fort St. John. Yes, they’re happy campers. And what are we doing down south? Trying to kill a big pipeline project… so many losers in this city, including the city council who should be supporting Enbridge big time. A big pipe job like that is great for our economy and they know it, but they don’t want to offend the academics on the hill and the rest of the non-contributors to our economy…

birdman, please tell us how the general rise in prices that will accompany both Site C and the pipeline when they are built, (and I personally believe both will be built), is going to ‘good’ for the economy.

When they’re finished will we get cheaper electricity? Or will it cost more? Cheaper gasoline when we fill up at the pump? Or be paying a price that’ll make current gas prices look like a bargain? Cheaper property taxes when the assessed value of your home rises to a level now unforeseen?

And what if you do sell that home, for some multiple of what you paid for it? Can you buy another home that’s comparable for any less than what you got for the one you sold? Did you really ‘profit’? Or are you just working with bigger figures?

And what about those ‘non-contributors’ to the economy? How many more of them will there be to keep, and what will be the price of their keeping, once these mega-projects are built and they become usefully superfluous too?

There IS a big difference between genuine ‘prosperity’, which neither of these projects will sustain despite the illusion of it they’ll create (for awhile), and pure ‘inflation’, which is what we’ll really be getting (again ~ you’d think we’d learn from past mistakes, but we don’t). And just WHO is really advantaged by higher prices? Ones that we’ll find are advancing even faster again than incomes are being generated to pay them.

What does the prospect of shipping unrefined bitumen to China directly through BC, have to do with the price of gas at the pumps?

If you want to whine about the pinch at the pumps maybe look at the tax content before the tiny profit margin. How very socialist of you. You forgot that the government was ripping you off on that commodity, (as well as most others). At least Hugo Chavez walks the walk and charges 6 pesos a gallon, for petrol.

Besides, Alberta has oil wealth because of ROYALTIES from the resource, paid by the oil companies not because everyone has more discretionary cash to spend.

You want more taxes and royalty revenue from your resource sector? You need infrastructure. Capital investment.

Any electricity from Site C is to help pay for the progressive NIMBY fools in California, who can talk the talk but can’t turn-off the air-conditioner. They deserve to be fleeced by BC hydro….again.

the price of electricty, like everything, will inevitably go up – Site C or not – because if you don’t build new generation to meet the demand, where’s it going to come from? BC Hydro is not selling needed power to the U S and leaving us short, it trades on the market for best prices which ultimately benefits the rates. and while wind, solar, and other renewable sources have their place,the kilowatts they generate are far more expensive than Site C power.

The unfortunate thing here is that Lekstrom left politics. He was one of the good ones regardless of who you voted for!

The construction of the pipeline, and Site C, just as with any major capital project, will raise the general price level to consumers here in BC. Including the price of gasoline, irrespective of how it’s taxed. It is called ‘inflation’, and some, particularly brainless BC Liberal supporters, still mistake that for ‘prosperity’.

It was the failure of WAC Bennett’s Socreds to discern the difference and control the inflation that resulted from the construction of mega-projects in the 1960’s that led to the defeat of the best government BC has ever had, and the election of the Dave Barrett NDP socialist disaster that followed them.

We’ve already seen a great run up in prices again, far faster than incomes have risen, largely as a result of Campbell’s Olympic related mega-projects. The difference is bridged by ever faster increases in overall debt, which is simply an indication of a growing cumulative shortage of consumer purchasing power recorded over time. And you want to make the gap between prices and incomes wider ~ which both these projects are certain to do? You’re setting the stage for the worst features of the kind of socialism you abhor to come right back in.

I’m not against capital investment, far from it. But lets figure out a way that the people of BC are not going to be further penalised financially more than they’re advantaged from it first.