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What is “very nearly a done deal” in the “Province of Alberta”, other than the PC’s going down?

During the televised debate, reference was made to supposed “same-sex marriage” rights. If a government does not call a same-sex relationship a marriage, what rights have to be allegedly denied to the people in the same-sex relationship? If a government does not call a same-sex relationship a marriage, why can’t the people in the same-sex relationship have just as many rights, and the same rights, that they would have if the government did call their same-sex relationship a marriage? With all the problems of recognition of so-called “same-sex marriages” in various other jurisdictions, and people residing in various other jurisdictions being unable to get so-called “same-sex divorces”, obviously, a so-called “same-sex marriage” is not the same thing as an opposite-sex marriage. Having different words, to refer to different things, is a good thing.

Delisting abortion services does not mean that abortion services would no longer be safe and available. Emergency medical services or ambulance services are delisted, and emergency medical services or ambulance services are still available.

In your view, should emergency medical services or ambulance services, which are medically necessary, be delisted, as they currently are?

Many people have to pay for emergency medical services or ambulance services out of pocket. Emergency medical services or ambulance services are medically necessary. Most or many abortions are not medically necessary.

Most or many abortions are not medically necessary, but supposedly are required to be insured by “Alberta Health and Wellness”. Emergency medical services or ambulance services are medically necessary, but apparently are not required to be insured by “Alberta Health and Wellness”.

Right now, with the penny still currently being made and in mass circulation, if the dollar was devalued a lot, there would be a run on pennies. Pennies minted before 1997 are 98% copper. Many pennies minted after 1996 are 98.4% zinc. About half the pennies minted after 1999 are not magnetic and therefore are not 94% steel and may also be 98.4% zinc. Recent USD March 30th metal values of these pennies are listed at the “Canada Circulating Coinage Intrinsic Value Table” at Coinflation.com. Also, if the dollar was devalued a lot and the penny was still to be made, the cost of making even the 94% steel penny would be many, many cents, and too many cents for the RCM.

John Ward, Canadian Press, wrote, in this article: “But it was inflation that really killed the little fellow. Like some numismatic cancer, it ate away at the penny’s value to the point where 95 per cent of its worth was gone”. It was metal composition changes, not only of the penny but other coins as well, that “ate away at the penny’s value to the point where 95 per cent of its worth was gone”. Metal composition changes of coins, that debase coins, is what allows for inflation to occur. Also, according to the article: “Rising metal prices, however, pushed the mint to substitute zinc for most of the copper between 1997 and 1999 and then to use steel and a copper plating for the rest of the penny’s life”. According to this chart, the price of copper in USD was actually declining from 1995 to 2002.

The dollar can’t be devalued much more with the penny still currently being made and in mass circulation. Now, when the penny is no longer made and no longer in mass circulation, the dollar can be devalued much more. With no penny, and with the cost of making the nickel currently about 2.5 cents, the dollar can be devalued to about half it’s present value, before the nickel costs the mint money to make.

It is not a “must” that “when a company upgrades the bitumen here, they have to ship each different product - aviation fuel, gasoline, diesel - as a separate batch or in a different pipeline”, as is claimed in this Edmonton Journal article. So, in answer to the question “Northern Gateway a must?” in the thread title, it is not a “must” to export bitumen, as the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline would do. Not only is it not a “must” to export bitumen, it should make more sense and should be more cost effective and profitable to export upgraded synthetic crude oil. One problem with the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project is that the cost of pipelining non-upgraded high-viscosity bitumen, or heavy oil, from Alberta is much higher than the cost of pipelining upgraded low-viscosity light oil. For the proposed Northern Gateway project, a westbound pipeline would transport both high-viscosity heavy oil or bitumen and diluent, and an eastbound pipeline would transport diluent. Compared to the alternative of instead just pumping upgraded low-viscosity light oil on a westbound pipeline, power costs would be higher and more pipeline space would be required because: (1) more fluid volume, a combination of diluent and heavy oil or bitumen, will be pumped; and, (2) on the extra eastbound pipeline, diluent will be pumped uphill from sea level elevation to a higher elevation near Edmonton. Power costs are the biggest part of Enbridge’s operating costs. Despite the fact that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project is not a “must”, Alison Redford claims that it “is of national importance and is critical to Canada's future economic strength”, according to this CTV article.

There is a difference between upgrading bitumen and refining oil. An upgrader is a facility that upgrades bitumen into synthetic crude oil. An oil refinery refines crude oil into petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas. When a company upgrades bitumen in Canada, the company can still export the upgraded synthetic crude oil without having to refine the synthetic crude oil in Canada. So when a company upgrades bitumen in Canada, the company can still export the upgraded synthetic crude oil without having “to ship each different product - aviation fuel, gasoline, diesel - as a separate batch or in a different pipeline”.

Griffiths urges capital-region mayors to promote Gateway pipeline By Elise Stolte, edmontonjournal.com December 8, 2011 [trimmed] Companies pipe raw bitumen because that’s more cost effective, said Nathan Lemphers, senior analyst at the Pembina Institute. When a company upgrades the bitumen here, they have to ship each different product - aviation fuel, gasoline, diesel - as a separate batch or in a different pipeline. If companies upgrade it close to where they sell those final products, those costs are reduced. “It’s more profitable for oil companies to build upgraders elsewhere,” Lemphers said. Alberta will only get more upgraders if the provincial government makes local upgrading of a portion of the bitumen a requirement in the permitting process, he said. “It’s quite presumptuous to think that by building more pipelines, you’ll have more upgraders.” [ complete article is at this link ]

Does this very definition of “poor” take into account debt levels or ability to not eventually become bankrupt?

Nevertheless, the world still has very many poor people. So how is the Bible wrong in this regard?

How has that globalization been working out for the difference, in the price of oil, between WTI and Brent Crude in recent years?

Smallc, thank-you for your informative and helpful replies.

“Under the shipbuilding procurement strategy, the two winning yards will be eligible to bid on an estimated $35 billion worth of contracts over the next several decades”, according to this October 19, 2011 article by David Pugliese, Postmedia News, Ottawa Citizen. So there’s still going to be future bidding on an estimated $35 billion worth of contracts? Future bidding for the Joint Support Ships and the Polar Icebreaker will be limited to just the Vancouver Shipyard owned by Seaspan Marine? Future bidding for the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships and the Canadian Surface Combatants will be limited to just the Halifax Shipyard owned by Irving Shipbuilding? Final design and prices for many of these ships is still future?

According to this slideshow: delivery for the Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels is 2013-2016; delivery for the Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessel is 2014; delivery for the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships is 2015-2021; and, delivery for the Joint Support Ships is 2017-2018.

The expansion of ships, facilities and capability in the Arctic is being done with the belief that global warming will be making the Arctic more accessible.

No one has yet proven that addicts would being doing the drugs anyways with shared dirty needles without Insite. The so-called “Supreme Court of Canada” judges are aiding and abetting unlawful activity by allowing Insite to remain open knowing that Insite knowingly provides needles for use in unlawful drug injections.

The so-called “Supreme Court of Canada” judges are aiding and abetting unlawful activity.

If the long-term equilibrium market value, for the intrinsic metal content of 1946-2011 U.S. Mint nickels, is the same as face value, then the price of copper and nickel would have to decline by about 4.35% from right now, relative to the stated value of “Federal” Reserve notes. The closing September 22nd intrinsic metal value of these nickels is “$0.0521772” or 104.35% of face value, according to the “United States Circulating Coinage Intrinsic Value Table” at Coinflation.com. The long-term equilibrium market value would be the same as face value if people, on average, choose to no longer save nickels, but rather spend nickels, when the market value, for the intrinsic metal content of 1946-2011 U.S. Mint nickels, falls below face value. Expressed another way, the long-term equilibrium market value would be the same as face value if people, on average, choose to no longer spend nickels, but rather save nickels, when the market value, for the intrinsic metal content of 1946-2011 U.S. Mint nickels, rises above face value.

I neither assert nor deny that any long-term climate warming trend is occurring. Ongoing tropical deforestation would have no effect on the certain extra mechanisms, that I am referring to, that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which results in the so-called “missing carbon sink”, and that have not yet been described publicly. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A.D., many direct measurements in the atmosphere of the concentration of carbon dioxide were higher than present-day carbon dioxide measurements. Relatively soon after carbon dioxide is released by man near ground level, it is removed from the atmosphere. I did not “front the debunked Beck paper”, rather I fronted the “carbon dioxide measurements before 1958”, as shown by the red dots in the graph displayed here. There appears to be a misunderstanding, or a misinterpretation, of my words. By “direct measurements of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide”, I was referring to direct measurements in the atmosphere of the concentration of carbon dioxide, not that those measurements are necessarily representative of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a whole. By using the adjective “atmospheric”, I was distinguishing the measurements from other measurements not of, or not in, the natural atmosphere, such as those that might be made in a lab or in a power plant stack, etc. I did not “proffer the debunked Beck paper”, rather I proffered the “carbon dioxide measurements before 1958”, as shown by the red dots in the graph displayed here. There is a difference between the “Beck paper” and the “carbon dioxide measurements before 1958”, as shown by the red dots in the graph displayed here. Like I already stated, the carbon dioxide measurements before 1958 are very local measurements, at various specific times, and not measurements that should necessarily be extrapolated to the entire biosphere. I did not “offer” this “source’s conclusions”, rather I offered “carbon dioxide measurements before 1958”, as shown by the red dots in the graph displayed here. I am not necessarily defending anything Beck may have stated or concluded. I am not necessarily defending any of his various interpretations, extrapolations, interpolations, etc., of carbon dioxide measurements made before 1958. I was simply referring to the carbon dioxide measurements made before 1958.

I have already answered your questions by stating: (a) I am a skeptic of various claims that man-made carbon dioxide emissions cause any alleged global warming or supposed climate change; and, (b ) There is an important difference between a denier and a skeptic. A denier asserts that some claim is not true. A skeptic asserts that some claim is not certain. I do not assert that warming is not true. I do not assert that climate change is not true. I assert that various claims, that man-made carbon dioxide emissions cause any alleged global warming or supposed climate change, are not certain. The “fluctuations in CO2 concentration” are not so “wild”, once one is aware of certain extra mechanisms which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Certain extra mechanisms, not yet described publicly, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which results in the so-called “missing carbon sink”. These extra mechanisms, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, need to be adequately explained and understood if the extent of human impact on the global carbon cycle is to be acceptably assessed and reliably predicted. The carbon dioxide measurements before 1958 are very local measurements, at various specific times, and not measurements that should necessarily be extrapolated to the entire biosphere.

There is an important difference between a denier and a skeptic. A denier asserts that some claim is not true. A skeptic asserts that some claim is not certain. I am a skeptic of various claims that man-made carbon dioxide emissions cause any alleged global warming or supposed climate change. Continuous direct measurements of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been performed only since 1958 (at Mauna Loa, Hawaii) unlike carbon dioxide measurements before 1958, shown in red in the graph displayed here and in non-green in this chart. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries A.D., many direct measurements of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide were higher than present-day carbon dioxide measurements and there was no runaway greenhouse-gas global warming effect.