They will wait for a grant or forgiveable loan. Yet it would be better to use taxpayers' money.
I am not an Irving basher just realistic.
If someone else owned it you or I would be forced to demolish it at our own cost; endangering the public. Laws for the waelthy and laws for ordinary people. Nothing ever changes.
IT’S BAD ENOUGH that Halifax is playing catch-up with Moncton by getting the Rolling Stones to play here a year after they played there.
Now we have to eat New Brunswick crow – once more – in the oil and gas business.
Nova Scotia’s two LNG paper-proposals are now so far behind New Brunswick’s sole project that our guys don’t look qualified to clean up one of those gleaming washrooms at an Irving Big Stop.
Irving Oil and its partner Repsol Canada hope to be exporting gas through a new pipeline to New England by 2009 or so.
Their plans are laid out – to some degree – in documents filed with the National Energy Board (NEB) by Emera Brunswick Pipeline Company Ltd.
Emera has applied to build a $350-million pipeline to ship re-gasified LNG from the Repsol/Irving plant near Saint John to the U.S. border at St. Stephen.
From there, the gas goes on to glory through the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (MNPP) system – either south to markets in New England, or back into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
You only suspect that the Irving/Repsol project is in front because their probable and tentative source of first LNG supplies – Trinidad and Tobago – is identified in the NEB application.
And you’re certain that these guys are winning when you look at the full NEB file.
What you’ll find there are 92 "letters of comment" and 72 submissions by intervenors.
When you attract that kind of opposition, in the oil and gas business, you know you’re goring someone’s ox – and that suggests a competitive advantage.
This little New Brunswick project has even spooked the big boys in the nation’s oil business: The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has stepped up to take a giant swing at Emera’s short little pipeline.
What really annoys CAPP is Repsol’s attempt to foist a "negotiated toll agreement" on the regulator that "contemplates a secret toll" for 25 years.
This isn’t the way business is usually done in the Canadian pipeline industry – where pipelines are common carriers and tolls are public knowledge.
If the regulator agrees to a confidential toll, the playing field gets tilted in Repsol’s favour and the competitors get shafted.
Repsol says this project is different because it uses LNG as source gas, and toll secrecy is crucial as it competes against other new projects.
Nonsense, says CAPP. "The (Repsol) references to LNG are in any event a red herring," the oil lobby says in a letter to the NEB. "The natural gas in question is in the pipeline after re-gasification. … (It) will compete with all gas in the marketplace."
That’s the sticking point.
Alberta gas producers will fight like lawyers in a hearing room for market share in New England, against new LNG supplies from the Maritimes.
The law says they can't tear it down and the law also says they can't do anything with it but sink millions into it to fix it up.
I don't know about most of you but I wouldn't take too kindly to someone telling me what I can do with my own property. If the Government insists that all train stations are heritage sites, than they should be owned by Heritage Canada and they can be responsible for it or have the local Heritage groups buy them and take them over.
This thing is an eyesore and should come down just like the old General Hospital in Saint John. Time was given to that and time has been given to this. Nothing has happened so bring it down.
Compromises are made on a daily bases. Get Premier Lord to pass a Bill like he did to allow Billionaires a tax break for 25 years. This is just drawn until the wealthy can get a grant or something else for land or something bigger. Wake up to how things are run in NB by Politicians and big corporations. When money flows from one pocket to another things will happen.
I agree that it is an eyesore. heritage site my %$#. I travelled to a pert of Europe and the city was considered a World Heritage Site and the entire city looked better than that - laws my good people need to be enforced. If I kpt my home property looking like that I'd be fined. Someone will eventually get hurt there or it might burn or something the it will be a big deal. Fix it or level it
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All those station properties are contaminated,next.
They will wait for a grant or forgiveable loan. Yet it would be better to use taxpayers' money.
I am not an Irving basher just realistic.
If someone else owned it you or I would be forced to demolish it at our own cost; endangering the public. Laws for the waelthy and laws for ordinary people. Nothing ever changes.
IRVING busy.
IT’S BAD ENOUGH that Halifax is playing catch-up with Moncton by getting the Rolling Stones to play here a year after they played there.
Now we have to eat New Brunswick crow – once more – in the oil and gas business.
Nova Scotia’s two LNG paper-proposals are now so far behind New Brunswick’s sole project that our guys don’t look qualified to clean up one of those gleaming washrooms at an Irving Big Stop.
Irving Oil and its partner Repsol Canada hope to be exporting gas through a new pipeline to New England by 2009 or so.
Their plans are laid out – to some degree – in documents filed with the National Energy Board (NEB) by Emera Brunswick Pipeline Company Ltd.
Emera has applied to build a $350-million pipeline to ship re-gasified LNG from the Repsol/Irving plant near Saint John to the U.S. border at St. Stephen.
From there, the gas goes on to glory through the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (MNPP) system – either south to markets in New England, or back into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
You only suspect that the Irving/Repsol project is in front because their probable and tentative source of first LNG supplies – Trinidad and Tobago – is identified in the NEB application.
And you’re certain that these guys are winning when you look at the full NEB file.
What you’ll find there are 92 "letters of comment" and 72 submissions by intervenors.
When you attract that kind of opposition, in the oil and gas business, you know you’re goring someone’s ox – and that suggests a competitive advantage.
This little New Brunswick project has even spooked the big boys in the nation’s oil business: The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has stepped up to take a giant swing at Emera’s short little pipeline.
What really annoys CAPP is Repsol’s attempt to foist a "negotiated toll agreement" on the regulator that "contemplates a secret toll" for 25 years.
This isn’t the way business is usually done in the Canadian pipeline industry – where pipelines are common carriers and tolls are public knowledge.
If the regulator agrees to a confidential toll, the playing field gets tilted in Repsol’s favour and the competitors get shafted.
Repsol says this project is different because it uses LNG as source gas, and toll secrecy is crucial as it competes against other new projects.
Nonsense, says CAPP. "The (Repsol) references to LNG are in any event a red herring," the oil lobby says in a letter to the NEB. "The natural gas in question is in the pipeline after re-gasification. … (It) will compete with all gas in the marketplace."
That’s the sticking point.
Alberta gas producers will fight like lawyers in a hearing room for market share in New England, against new LNG supplies from the Maritimes.
The law says they can't tear it down and the law also says they can't do anything with it but sink millions into it to fix it up.
I don't know about most of you but I wouldn't take too kindly to someone telling me what I can do with my own property. If the Government insists that all train stations are heritage sites, than they should be owned by Heritage Canada and they can be responsible for it or have the local Heritage groups buy them and take them over.
This thing is an eyesore and should come down just like the old General Hospital in Saint John. Time was given to that and time has been given to this. Nothing has happened so bring it down.
Compromises are made on a daily bases. Get Premier Lord to pass a Bill like he did to allow Billionaires a tax break for 25 years. This is just drawn until the wealthy can get a grant or something else for land or something bigger. Wake up to how things are run in NB by Politicians and big corporations. When money flows from one pocket to another things will happen.
I agree that it is an eyesore. heritage site my %$#. I travelled to a pert of Europe and the city was considered a World Heritage Site and the entire city looked better than that - laws my good people need to be enforced. If I kpt my home property looking like that I'd be fined. Someone will eventually get hurt there or it might burn or something the it will be a big deal. Fix it or level it
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