On Sunday, 3 September 2017 13:26:33 UTC-3, wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

On Saturday, 2 September 2017 13:08:10 UTC-3, justan wrote:
True North Wrote in message:
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 10:26:42 UTC-3, John H wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 06:18:04 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Here we go again...y'all catch a cold down there and we end up sneezing.
Why the 'ell are all your refineries in a storm path?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...ause-1.4273243

Why don't you have your own refineries and not be so dependent on the USA?

Duh...we do Johnny. Ever hear of Irving in Saint John NS?
The last one in Nova Scotia was closed a couple years ago and now is just a tank farm.


Closed? Too expensive to bring crude in by ship? You can't be
independant and make cheap gas if you don't have a refinary. You
have to settle for what the U.S. gives you. So shut up snd be
grateful for what we give you.
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The US gives us diddly. We were getting our crude from South America when the Imperial Oil refinery was still operating but as far as I can tell we buy it wherever we can now. The Feds want to extend a pipeling from Alberta to Montreal, the rest of the way to Saint John, New Brunswick. That might fix our supply situation but the prices are set either against a New York benchmark or a European benchmark...whichever makes more money for the oil company.

The irving refinery produces about 16% of your consumption but you
actually export 4 times as much oil as you import. The difference is
you are importing sweet light crude and you are exporting the sludge
you get from the oil sands.

We did export quite a bit from oil rigs offshore in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in addition to natural gas. The wells seem to be drying up a bit now so not sure what the future holds. BTW Saskatchewan also claims to export oil, and it's not the sludge we usually dump on the US.