OIL: Propaganda Tanks and Their Challenges

Check out this item on the issues facing the one Jason Kenney's setting up in Alberta to protect tarsands money from reality.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kenney-energy-war-room-1.5393010

The thing that Mr. Kenney's trying to get us to ignore is that we can't afford to burn anyone's oil to get the energy we need anymore. Not Putinist Russia's, not the Bakken deposits in the northern prairies of the USA, not the Saudis', nor our own in Alberta or off the Newfoundland Island coast...not anyone's oil from anywhere. But you being my audience-by-choice, you knew this yourselves already. Mr. Kenney probably doesn't like that fact either.

Preclearance Agreements?

Canadians have been getting warned about this for a couple of years now, since Obama's second term at least.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-border-crossing-rights-1.5382547

Noting the following:

Even if a Canadian official is "unwilling" to conduct a search or has deemed a detainment unnecessary, a U.S. official can override that call. In other words, Canadian law enforcement can now be countermanded within Canada by Americans.

WEATHER: Mid-December Sunday

"Bright and blustery" is what the day became by noon hour. I'd just gotten home with today's NYT and TorStar editions by the time that happened. Getting some laundry done for my last week on this contract while I'm logged in here.