Charles,
Did you know that irving/repsol does NOT have a gas source anymore from Russia because of the insatability of that country?
That's good news really because they've been blowing their horn about how they are the only facility around these parts to have gas and now they don't...
God giveth and God taketh away I guess.
Now they will have to start begging (they're good at that lol) other crazy countries for gas like Algeria, which is so damned corrupt. this isn't for blogging but if you want to put a heading asking the question "does repsol have a gas supply" for this pipeline of theirs'
In your own word go for it, its up to you. it would be interesting to see the irving boys scrambling to answer it lol
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Letters |
As published on page A8 on December 7, 2006
Belated kudos to Janice Harvey for her hard-hitting commentary exposing the recent National Energy Board hearing on the proposed pipeline for the sham that it was: neatly orchestrated to serve the corporate agenda of pushing through the pipeline while giving the public a false impression of propriety.
A level playing field is what is needed, and most certainly the NEB hearing was not. The bias displayed against the citizen intervenors was obvious. Shame on the NEB.
Harvey remains an informed and vocal spokesperson on several fronts regarding the public interest and the environment, and her commentaries are a credit to your newspaper. This one was a classic, and I'm filing away a copy.
RON JESSULAT
Bathurst
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http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/10/06/stop__shop_beefs_up_effort_to_allow_wine_sales/
October 6, 2006
Energy firm studies plan to double refinery output
Irving Oil, which produces about 60 percent of the gasoline used in Greater Boston, said it is studying a $7 billion doubling of the production capacity of its refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, which could improve New England gas supplies and soften local price volatility. Irving has not yet sought government approval and doesn't expect the new capacity to operate before 2012 or 2013. It would be the first big petroleum refinery built in North America in more than 20 years. Irving refining growth director Kevin Scott said the company envisions raising the daily output capacity of its Saint John plant to 600,000 barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other products, up from 300,000. (Peter J. Howe)
Petroleum Economist November 2006
Irving Oil is expected to decide early in 2007 to double output at its Saint John, New Brunswick, refinery to 0.6m b/d, mostly for export to the US ...
www.petroleum-economist.com/default. asp?page=14&PubID=46&ISS=22777&SID=659838 -
So it is official, New Brunswick is a colony of the US and Quebec. Saint John has massive poverty and massive tax increases for 2000 jobs which pay less than the industry average and had one of the worst strikes in canadian history. This also has most new industries avoiding the province like the environmental plague it is. Bennett and mines poisoning the north, tree clear cuts wiping out the middle, and Irving refineries and mill polluting the hell out of the south. And people wonder why so little new investment comes.
The gas was never coming from Russia or Algeria fools. It was coming from a secure source in Trinidad. Try doing some research.
whos cares, money should be being put into renewable energy instead, I would think that everyone should be thinking about the future, if there is going to be one here on earth.
"We've become a highly industrialized nation, something that was a pipe dream a few years ago," said Anthony Bryan, former director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies on Trinidad.
But some experts here worry that the natural gas boom is taking on the same character as the oil-fueled growth burst of the 1970's, which was followed by a ruinous decade-long bust culminating in a violent coup attempt in 1990 by Muslim militants.
"There's the 'here-we-go-again' phenomenon," said Ronald Ramkissoon, chief economist at Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, the country's largest financial institution. "If we're not wise enough to hive away some of the excess money we're getting from this boom, then we stand the risk of getting hit again."
Weighing over everything are fears about what will happen when the energy bounty runs out. Although Trinidad is envied by other energy producers, it has just 0.5 percent of the world's proven gas reserves, far less than big producers like Qatar and Russia. Unless big new discoveries are made, the Inter-American Development Bank says, Trinidad's existing reserves guarantee only 20 years of gas and oil production at current extraction rates.
Is there any coincidence to the CBC story that Irving sold a PCB laden ship to a company in Trinidad and that's where they'll be getting their gas? Same company maybe?
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