Keystone Be Darned: Canada Finds a Surprise Pipeline Route

[bimetalaupt]

Keystone Be Darned: Canada Finds a Surprise Pipeline Route Bypassing Obama

So you're the Canadian oil industry and you do what you think is a great thing by developing a mother lode of heavy crude beneath the forests and muskeg of northern Alberta. The plan is to send it clear to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast via a pipeline called Keystone XL. Just a few years back, America desperately wanted that oil

finance.yahoo.com/news/keystone-darned-canada-finds-surprise-154936872.html

It is about time: Obama hates Texas not Canada.  

[billisonboard]

In Nebraska, farmers don't want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. ...

America doesn't not equal Obama.

[bimetalaupt]

Oct 8, 2014 14:34:55 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

In Nebraska, farmers don't want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. ...

America doesn't not equal Obama.

Yes : Global warming like in the Permian Period when average temperature was 3F ( 2C) higher then the today.  Best model show increase in temperature leads CO2 by 1,000Years.

Just keeping up with Data,

BiMetalAuPt

PS: Our ranch sits on two freshwater underground lakes (AKA aquifers) and has seven pipelines running above them.  No problem the water is 500 and 2,500 feet deep.

[Value Buy]

Oct 8, 2014 14:34:55 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

In Nebraska, farmers don't want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. ...

America doesn't not equal Obama.

Double negative.

Does that mean America really does not equal America, or America equals Obama?

[billisonboard]

Oct 8, 2014 15:11:10 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Oct 8, 2014 14:34:55 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

In Nebraska, farmers don't want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. ...

America doesn't not equal Obama.

Double negative.

Does that mean America really does not equal America, or America equals Obama?

Whoops.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Oct 8, 2014 15:06:22 GMT -5 bimetalaupt said:

Oct 8, 2014 14:34:55 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

In Nebraska, farmers don't want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. ...

America doesn't not equal Obama.

Yes : Global warming like in the Permian Period when average temperature was 3F ( 2C) higher then the today.  Best model show increase in temperature leads CO2 by 1,000Years.

Just keeping up with Data,

BiMetalAuPt

PS: Our ranch sits on two freshwater underground lakes (AKA aquifers) and has seven pipelines running above them.  No problem the water is 500 and 2,500 feet deep.

Obama doesn't hate Texas, he's an idiot that doesn't get math or economics. Ya know, like someone who thinks shutting/restricting down air travel because of Ebola would be detrimental to the economy, but at the same time supports economy killing sanctions based on the religion if man made global warming. Isn't it going to be awesome to have all that extra farm land and CO2 for algae production?

-Palm trees 'grew on Antarctica'
-Vikings grew barley in Greenland

Seems like you're saying that it's time to pick up TRP and SU based on future growth, and the fact that Canadian crude to WTI discount is about to evaporate. 20 billion a year extra at current levels should help the bottom line.

God bless,

[bimetalaupt]

THE ELECTION OF 52 REPUBLICAN SENITORS COULD CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE FOR THE TRANS-CANADA PIPELINE.   

The last, best chance to kill the Keystone pipeline

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-last-best-chance-kill-the-keystone-pipeline

After six years of administrative delays and internecine fighting, environmentalists’ last best chance to kill the Keystone XL could come during a 60 day window after next month’s election and before the new Congress gets sworn in.

The Obama administration controls the approval process for now, but if Republicans win control of the Senate, as expected, they plan to fast track legislation to greenlight the controversial pipeline. That gives opponents one more chance to try to convince the president to reject the pipeline before the landscapes shifts against them, which could happen if Republicans control both chambers of Congress come January.

While environmentalists are still hoping for a good outcome on Election Day, they’re planning for the worst.

RELATED: Keystone pipeline could be worse than we thought, according to study

In meetings around Washington and in regular conference calls between groups that work together to stop the extraction of dirty oil from Canada’s tar sands, environmentalists are preparing to once again push the White House on this issue if Democrats lose on Nov. 4.

“We’re going to be a major headache,” reads an internal post-election planning memo from the environmental group 350.org obtained by msnbc. “We’re ready for a fight, and the last thing President Obama and Democrats need is a rebellion from the left.”
(headache: like lack of works : i.e. unemployment)
The group has led the fight against the pipeline with aggressive direct-action campaigns, including protests outside the White House in which hundreds of activists volunteered to get arrested.

NOW WE MAY GET A LOT OF NEEDED JOBS:PIPE MARKERS, WELDERS, HEAVY HAULING TRUCKERS AND FOOD VENDORS!!  JOBS!!!!!!

Just a thought,

BiMetalAuP

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

So , you're saying it's a good thing I reinvested my dividends on the 16th of Oct in SU and TRP?

Discounted prices to increase future gains - what's that?

[bimetalaupt]

Oct 28, 2014 13:47:28 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

strategy = long term planningSo , you're saying it's a good thing I reinvested my dividends on the 16th of Oct in SU and TRP?

Discounted prices to increase future gains - what's that?   GREEN

The Difference between Strategy and Tactics

The purpose of this post is to clearly delineate the distinct differences between strategy and tactics, and show how they work in tandem for your organization.

Often, we use the terms strategy and tactics interchangeably and in a haphazard manner. When probing at online definitions and dictionaries, they often share many of the same characteristics, making them difficult to differentiate. Rather than debate Greek military etymology, Sun Tzu philosophy, or latest publications from the Harvard Business Press, here’s a simple way to look at strategy and tactics by their associated actions:




[The difference between strategy and tactics: strategy is done above the shoulders, tactics are done below the shoulders]



While a tweet-worthy catch phrase, this metaphor risks glib over-simplification. To explore deeper, let’s dissect strategy vs tactics in the following breakdown:


Breakdown: The Difference between Strategy and Tactics

Strategy Tactics
Purpose To identify clear broader goals that advance the overall organization and organize resources. To utilize specific resources to achieve sub-goals that support the defined mission.
Roles Individuals who influence resources in the organization. They understand how a set of tactics work together to achieve goals. Specific domain experts that maneuver limited resources into actions to achieve a set of goals.
Accountability Held accountable to overall health of organization. Held accountable to specific resources assigned.
Scope All the resources within the organizations, as well as broader market conditions including competitors, customers, and economy. Yet don’t over think it, to paraphrase my business partner Charlene Li, “Strategy is often what you don’t do”. A subset of resources used in a plan or process. Tactics are often specific tactics with limited resources to achieve broader goals.
Duration Long Term, changes infrequently. Shorter Term, flexible to specific market conditions.
Methods Uses experience, research, analysis, thinking, then communication. Uses experiences, best practices, plans, processes, and teams.
Outputs Produces clear organizational goals, plans, maps, guideposts, and key performance measurements. Produces clear deliverables and outputs using people, tools, time.

Strategy and Tactics Must Work in Tandem
These two must work in tandem, without it your organization cannot efficiently achieve goals. If you have strategy without tactics you have big thinkers and no action. If you have tactics without strategy, you have disorder. To quote my former business partner, Lora Cecere, she reminds me that organizations need big wings (strategic thinking) and feet (capability to achieve).

Examples:
To illustrate, here’s some specific examples across different industries of how strategic goals can be communicated with clear tactical elements, in a linear and logical order:
•Strategy: Be the market share leader in terms of sales in the mid-market in our industry. Tactics: Offer lower cost solutions than enterprise competitors without sacrificing white-glove service for first 3 years of customer contracts.
•Strategy: Maneuver our brand into top two consideration set of household decision makers. Tactics: Deploy a marketing campaign that leverages existing customer reviews and spurs them to conduct word of mouth with their peers in online and real world events.
•Strategy: Improve retention of top 10% of company performers. Tactics: Offer best in market compensation plan with benefits as well as sabbaticals to tenured top performers, source ideas from top talent.
•Strategy: Connect with customers while in our store and increase sales. Tactics: Offer location based mobile apps on top three platforms, and provide top 5 needed use cases based on customer desire and usage patterns.
•Strategy: Become a social utility that earth uses on an daily basis. Tactics: Offer a free global communication toolset that enables disparate personal interactions with your friends to monitor, share, and interact with.

Action: Using Strategy and Tactics to advance your Organization
First, educate your staff and colleagues on the differences of terms and how they vary. Next, ensure that all tactics align to business strategy, and all strategies take into account tactics on how they will be achieved. Finally, cascade in all communication how strategy and tactics work in tandem, advancing how your organization can see the larger goals, and better utilize resources to achieve.

That’s my take, but please expand the conversation with your perspective, in the comments below.

 www.web-strategist.com/blog/2013/01/14/the-difference-between-strategy-and-tactics/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Strategy? What's that? Is that like that chess thingy?

[dothedd]

  Do they still beat horses in TEXAS!  


....................................................................I DON'T THINK SO!  GOD BLESS ...  

[bimetalaupt]

Oct 29, 2014 11:21:21 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Strategy? What's that? Is that like that chess thingy?

The Difference between Strategy and Tactics

The purpose of this post is to clearly delineate the distinct differences between strategy and tactics, and show how they work in tandem for your organization.

Often, we use the terms strategy and tactics interchangeably and in a haphazard manner. When probing at online definitions and dictionaries, they often share many of the same characteristics, making them difficult to differentiate. Rather than debate Greek military etymology, Sun Tzu philosophy, or latest publications from the Harvard Business Press, here’s a simple way to look at strategy and tactics by their associated actions:




[The difference between strategy and tactics: strategy is done above the shoulders, tactics are done below the shoulders]



While a tweet-worthy catch phrase, this metaphor risks glib over-simplification. To explore deeper, let’s dissect strategy vs tactics in the following breakdown:


Breakdown: The Difference between Strategy and Tactics


Strategy Tactics
Purpose To identify clear broader goals that advance the overall organization and organize resources. To utilize specific resources to achieve sub-goals that support the defined mission.
Roles Individuals who influence resources in the organization. They understand how a set of tactics work together to achieve goals. Specific domain experts that maneuver limited resources into actions to achieve a set of goals.
Accountability Held accountable to overall health of organization. Held accountable to specific resources assigned.
Scope All the resources within the organizations, as well as broader market conditions including competitors, customers, and economy. Yet don’t over think it, to paraphrase my business partner Charlene Li, “Strategy is often what you don’t do”. A subset of resources used in a plan or process. Tactics are often specific tactics with limited resources to achieve broader goals.
Duration Long Term, changes infrequently. Shorter Term, flexible to specific market conditions.
Methods Uses experience, research, analysis, thinking, then communication. Uses experiences, best practices, plans, processes, and teams.
Outputs Produces clear organizational goals, plans, maps, guideposts, and key performance measurements. Produces clear deliverables and outputs using people, tools, time.

Strategy and Tactics Must Work in Tandem
These two must work in tandem, without it your organization cannot efficiently achieve goals. If you have strategy without tactics you have big thinkers and no action. If you have tactics without strategy, you have disorder. To quote my former business partner, Lora Cecere, she reminds me that organizations need big wings (strategic thinking) and feet (capability to achieve).

Examples:
To illustrate, here’s some specific examples across different industries of how strategic goals can be communicated with clear tactical elements, in a linear and logical order:
•Strategy: Be the market share leader in terms of sales in the mid-market in our industry. Tactics: Offer lower cost solutions than enterprise competitors without sacrificing white-glove service for first 3 years of customer contracts.
•Strategy: Maneuver our brand into top two consideration set of household decision makers. Tactics: Deploy a marketing campaign that leverages existing customer reviews and spurs them to conduct word of mouth with their peers in online and real world events.
•Strategy: Improve retention of top 10% of company performers. Tactics: Offer best in market compensation plan with benefits as well as sabbaticals to tenured top performers, source ideas from top talent.
•Strategy: Connect with customers while in our store and increase sales. Tactics: Offer location based mobile apps on top three platforms, and provide top 5 needed use cases based on customer desire and usage patterns.
•Strategy: Become a social utility that earth uses on an daily basis. Tactics: Offer a free global communication toolset that enables disparate personal interactions with your friends to monitor, share, and interact with.

Action: Using Strategy and Tactics to advance your Organization
First, educate your staff and colleagues on the differences of terms and how they vary. Next, ensure that all tactics align to business strategy, and all strategies take into account tactics on how they will be achieved. Finally, cascade in all communication how strategy and tactics work in tandem, advancing how your organization can see the larger goals, and better utilize resources to achieve.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

So, you're say shitty strategy lead terrible tactics?.. Like draining your oil reserves/only real money supply while thinking your going to rule the world. Or perhaps something like the Iraqi Kurds leaving Iraq to go fight in Syria, whike they are under attack in Iraq.. Talk about spreading yourself thin...

[Shooby]

Yup. Obama can try to block progress all he wants but boo hoo. Other countries will lead instead.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

A bit of back story. We've talked about the the military strategy of letting the ME drain their oil before really tapping North America's reserves. We also joke all the time about how nobama talks big about blocking the keystone, while the southern leg of it is built and shale production puts US oil production back at levels not seen in 40+ years.

In all seriousness, if it wasn't for the strategy and tactics of big oil, the economy would be scewed right now because oil would be at 140 a barrel, at least. In other words - what's another word for irrelevant? Government.

[Virgil Showlion]

Keystone Be Darned:

...

And if you're a fed-up Canadian, like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there's a bonus: Obama can't do a single thing about it.

The law of unintended consequences, eh?

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

I live in oil-rich Alberta (Canada) where much of this fuel is being drilled, extracted, refined, and transported to the US (and other nations abroad).

The US has (over the last couple of decades at least) been highly dependent on our abundance of natural fuel resources to supplement their own. The Keystone pipeline is a boon to the US supply, and an equal boon to our economy - at least here in the west, where the drilling and fracking of the fuel is an ongoing industry.

[bimetalaupt]

Oct 31, 2014 12:11:53 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Keystone Be Darned:

...

And if you're a fed-up Canadian, like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there's a bonus: Obama can't do a single thing about it.

The law of unintended consequences, eh?


It is a no vote issue!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

No vote issue + a complete lack of business acumen. As SL pointed out Alberta depends on oil production. The rectangle province I'm from is hitting it's stride with production, and BC is becoming a big player in LNG.

Someone who has even the most basic understanding of business should know that if an avenue closes down you look for a different street for your product. Especially if that product happens to be what fuels the world in which we live.

[bimetalaupt]

Is the Keystone Pipeline relevant now with BRENT under 80?

Thinking: it will take 5 years to finish and increase the production and refining systems.
Price of oil ( Brent) will be much higher in 2021 as well as the State of the world GDP(IMHO)
Now for LNG: the next generation Diesel will run on CNG like the Scania 5 cylinder truck power plant. NG is converted to H2 for Catalytic Cracking of very heavy tar sand oil!!!  The demand for NG will increase:again much more will be used at the well heads like in the 1940's when " One Lung power" will rull the field vs just burning it. 
Stocks to Watch:SE, XOM and DUK & Royal Bank of Canada

Problem is time: By the time Keystone bill is pasted there will be a shortage of welders!!!
Just a thought from Midland,TX office of Vintage Asset Trust!!!
BiMetalAuPt
PS: The new rail cars for very heavy oil are both bigger and stronger as are the new tracts for the Rail Roads.  My great grandfather used the Wide tracks on road to carry the very heavy coal with his heavy 38 ton steam power to Oswego, NY: again this had its advantage in safety: they used three rail in part for standard and wide. four tracks would be very nice with the very heavy on the outside. (IMHO)

[bimetalaupt]

Transportation of Crude Oil by Rail
www.aar.org/todays-railroads/what-we-haul/crude-oil-by-rail?gclid=CLbtmd3vtMICFUQLMgodb0cAfg
In light of increased volumes of crude oil moving by rail, the nation's freight railroads have done top-to-bottom reviews and improved their operations and federal regulators have issued new regulations related to how railroads are moving crude oil by rail (CBR). The result: freight railroads move each oil train under rules as rigorous as those required for more hazardous materials. Thanks to a nationwide rail network infused by years of major private investment reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, railroads are transporting what America's economy needs and helping the nation achieve energy independence. Route selection, train speeds, track inspections, and the training of personnel, all reflect today's high standards established to move CBR safely
Enhanced Rail Operations for Crude Oil

Freight railroads have rigorous employee safety training requirements and strict operating procedures that govern the handling and movement of hazardous goods, including crude oil. Federal regulation​ and self-imposed safety practices dictate train speeds, equipment and infrastructure inspections, procedures for how to handle and secure trains carrying hazardous materials, and much more.

Railroads also use a sophisticated routing model, developed in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help determine the safest and most secure routes for transporting hazardous materials.

Since July 2013, in coordination with government officials, railroads have imposed additional, voluntary operating procedures for crude oil shipments:

In August 2013, DOT issued an Emergency Order and Safety Advisory to help prevent trains operating on mainline tracks or sidings from moving unintentionally.

In August 2013, the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), a federal advisory committee that develops railroad safety recommendations through a consensus process, met to discuss attendance and securement issues. RSAC has completed its work and sent recommendations to the FRA for review.

In January 2014, PHMSA issued a safety alert regarding proper shipper classification of crude oil being transported from the Bakken region.

In February 2014, freight railroads joined with DOT to announce a rail operations safety initiative that instituted new voluntary operating practices for moving crude oil by rail.


Advocating for Safer Tank Cars

Freight railroads have led the charge to ensure flammable liquids like crude oil are moved in rail cars built to stringent design and construction standards. Railroads have proposed enhanced government design and construction regulations for crude oil tank cars and advocated for the swift retrofit or phase out of older tank cars.

In 2011, the rail industry's Tank Car Committee, comprised of shippers, rail car manufacturers and railroads, voluntarily implemented standards that exceed those of the federal government.

In November 2013, freight railroads stepped up the call for even more rigorous standards for tank cars carrying flammable liquids, including asking that existing tank cars be retrofitted to meet these higher standards of phased out if they cannot be made safer.

Fact Sheets

Crude Oil by Rail: One Year Later
PDF

Railroad Tank Cars
PDF

Railroads and Community Safety
PDF
Press Releases

AAR Calls for Regulations to Enhance the Safe Transport of Flammable Liquids and Keeps the Rail Network Efficient


AAR Responds to U.S. DOT Proposed Rule on Safety of Moving Flammable Liquids by Rail


Freight Railroads Taking Significant Steps to Advance Crude by Rail Safety

Background Papers

Moving Crude Oil by Rail
PDF

High Tech Advances Improve Safety
PDF

Positive Train Control
PDF

Railroads Moving America Safely
PDF

See how railroads are working toward an accident free future.

See first responders train at TTCI's SERTC.


www.aar.org/Charts/Commodity/U.S.%20Crude%20Oil%20Production.jpg

[dothedd]

THIS IS A FUN QUIZ....

corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/multimedia/energy-lives-here/quiz

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

seems to me the best time to build the pipeline and upgrade the rail lines is when prices are depressed. Like you said, at some point the resources will be needed. Lots of rig workers will need work with oil production down - lower wages?

I think you could add SU and TRP on the list of stocks to watch for this project. SU is Canada's largest oil and gas company. Aside from owning Petro Canada, the use their natural gas production to refine heavy oil - like you always talk about.

God bless

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

What? You mean there is a southern leg of the keystone already built and it will help move millions of barrels of oil because it is - in fact - pipe space?

Keystone XL - three more just like it, and renewable energy to end Mid East Imports!

Canada Doesn’t Need Keystone XL to Win U.S. Crude Supply Battle

[Value Buy]

And yet the White House still says he will veto the program.

I hope the Senate sends it back every year, and especially about August of 2016, right before the election.

[bimetalaupt]

Jan 8, 2015 18:22:02 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

And yet the White House still says he will veto the program.

I hope the Senate sends it back every year, and especially about August of 2016, right before the election.

Bush 2016!!!!!!!!

[dothedd]

Bush has my vote in 2016!!!!!!!!  

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Jan 8, 2015 18:22:02 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

And yet the White House still says he will veto the program.

I hope the Senate sends it back every year, and especially about August of 2016, right before the election.

Cleared Nebraska today so it will be interesting. At this point if he vetoed it, its purely because of pressure from his ultra liberal supporters.

Gotta luv the rational of the keystone protestors; so OPEC has impeccable environmental standards? Getting oil out of the ground overseas, and shipping it here isn't adding carbon to the air?

Canadians and American societies share many of the same values and the two countries share what is arguably the greatest economic partnership between two countries in known history. OPEC countries use their money to keep a monarchy alive, have terrible human rights issues, and since Saudi Arabia took control of Aramco - have been exporting Islamic fundamentalism, aka the wahhabist school of thought, around the globe...

End OPEC support, keep sending the bill until it's passed without a doubt VB.