Piplyme oilive oylsands, update

These new transmission (power) lines will help Albertans. It will reduce their electrical bills, except for a mere $3/mo residential customer interim, like shoot-shovel-and-shutup-Ralph-Klein's energy-deregulation did. (ha)

Ooops. Dec 7, 2012. "AltaGas withdraws permit to export to U.S."
"AltaGas filed the application in error, and has no plans to sell power from Alberta to the U.S. We expect to withdraw the application," said AltaGas spokesperson Neil Mackie.

May 19, 2011. "Wikileaks offers insight on Alberta power lines"

Cellucci writes that Alberta’s former Energy Minister Murray Smith “and others” want the U.S. government to be “aware that over time there will be tremendous electricity co-generation available as a result of the huge thermal needs of the oil sands refining process.” “This could over time make significant new electricity exports available to the United States.” The diplomatic cable also reveals Alberta’s provincial ministers and energy sector executives “broadly” supported “U.S. goals in Iraq” and resented former federal Natural Resource Minister Herb Dhaliwal’s assertion that former U.S. President George Bush was a “failed statesman.”

we are amused

The Mayor of London was first brought to Our attention when GWB was on His book tour in 2010 for Derision Points. The Mayor had issued a statement to the Unimpeachable President, who recently was honoured with a White House portrait for Officially Lying to and Bankrupting the American People for Illegal Wars; to George Walker Bush, Boris said, We Will arrest You as a War Criminal and You 'might never see Texas again.'

Mayor B. Johnson's Zipline Antics

{{ as soon as they announced boris everybody started looking up. lol. #danglingboris }}