Hello, I’m here from a National News Outlet to interview a Typical Vancouver Islander about the Kinder Morgan pipeline crisis. Good morning, Typical.
Hi. Thanks for having me. I appreciate the chance to explain how we feel …
Why are you such a hypocrite?
Pardon?
You drive a car. You heat your home with oil. How can you object to the pipeline?
OK, that’s a basic misunderstanding. Most people in B.C. are fine with the pipeline. They’re just worried about an Exxon Valdez-type spill from an oil tanker on the coas…
Vancouver ships more coal — far worse for climate change than oil — than anywhere else in North America. When you swallow your hypocrisy, do you gag on the coal dust?
Maybe you didn’t hear my last answer. Again, what we’re worried about is the effects of an oil spill. Even with Trudeau’s Oceans Protection Plan, we’re not sure it’s possible to clean up after …
Andrew Weaver says B.C. might be OK with a pipeline if the oil got refined out there in La La Land. Does that make him an extortionist hypocrite or just a money-grubbing hypocrite?
No, it’s not about the money. If there’s a spill from a tanker, refined products would be less harmful to the environment than dil…
Shuswap Liberal MLA Greg Kyllo tweeted “At the same time @jjhorgan continues to allow sewage to spew unimpeded into the ocean in his home riding, he cites ‘protecting BC’s coastline’ in his attempt to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline. His hypocrisy stinks.” What stinks more, Horgan’s hypocrisy, your hypocrisy, or Victoria’s sewage?
OK, that’s not fair. Kyllo should know it was his own party that put $248 million toward a $765-million Victoria sewage-treatment solution that’s well underway …
Will you change your mind about Kinder Morgan now that your hypocritical opposition to the pipeline has driven up gas prices?
The price of gas has nothing to do with the pipeline. About 15 per cent of what moves through the existing pipeline is refined product: That’s 50,000 barrels a day of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The rest is diluted bitumen and other crudes from the Alberta oilpatch. The twinning of the Trans Mountain line would add 590,000 barrels of capacity to the existing 300,000, but that would be for heavy oil, not gas. Besides, it’s not a lack of pipeline capacity that’s driving up gas prices, it’s supply …
W. Brett Wilson told BNN Bloomberg it’s not a matter of if Alberta turns off the taps to B.C., but when. Quote: “There’s no reason to not choke the supply,” and: “If B.C. wants to be the sort of active child, the acting-out child, the black sheep in the family, that’s fine, but they should pay the consequences.” Now, we understand that some British Columbians — baristas, aromatherapists, dope growers, professional protesters — actually have jobs. How will you get your weed to market without fuel for your Westfalias?
First, there are four Puget Sound refineries within 60 kilometres of Victoria that have more capacity than all the refineries in Alberta combined, so we’ll have a source of gas. Secondly …
When you chained yourself to Trans Mountain’s gates in Burnaby …
I, I didn’t chain myself to anything. I had to get the kids to soccer …
… did you see yourself as a martyr like Joan of Arc, or more of a Che Guevera? Did you express yourself through interpretive dance when arrested, or just hoof the cop in the nuts? Were you wearing a rasta cap, a black balaclava or a tinfoil hat?
Look, not everyone who is worried about a spill belongs to the lunatic fri…
Explain once more why you prefer hypocrisy and getting high to pipelines and prosperity.
Good lord, are you wilfully ignorant or actually that stupid?
Do something wacky. We love it when you people do something wacky.
This is pointless! Turn off that camera!
That’s the spirit. Now sing Solidarity Forever. No, make it For He’s A Jolly Good Fascist. Then do some identity politics. And light something on fire.
I’m out of here. I have to go to work.
That was a Typical Vancouver Islander, explaining why they hate Canada. Next: the Blue Jays face the Seattle Mariners …
