Ah, the law of unintended consequences!
NGO opposition to new oil pipelines cause diversion of crude onto rail.
New crude oil tanker cars displace grain cars on trains.
In the East (and far West as well), Canadian feed mills can't get Prairie grain at reasonable prices or at a reasonable rate of supply. The issue is most noticeable in the oat market, now experiencing highest prices since 2008...if you can deliver.
Meanwhile, farmers on the Canadian Prairies have suffered depressed basis bids and storage problems due to record yields and the railroad bottleneck.
Now, our best foreign grain buyers are turning their backs on Canadian wheat because delivery is late, and they're buying US wheat instead, further exacerbating our inland glut.
All thanks to folks like this!
Boo hoo. "Folks like this" are trying to prevent oil companies and farmers from destroying natural habitat and wild spaces and polluting the earth with oil spills, tar sand tailing ponds (http://www.naturecanada.ca/tarsands_impacts.asp), CO2 emissions and pesticides. They have to be forced to wake up before their greed destroys us all!
ReplyDeleteLet me guess. msholistic in a new dress? I dearly hope your green arse turns blue. Then you will be forced to wake up to the fact that all this AGW environmental saviourship is nothing but a lure for dumb suckers like you.
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