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Andrew Leach is a Canadian energy and environmental economist and a contributing writer to a number of Canadian news outlets… more

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Excited to be heading back to Ottawa for this event on Oct 9. Hopefully you can join us, in person or online.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 23d
Worried about climate change and the impact of disinformation of policies and strategies to combat it? Then you can't miss Max Bell School of Public Policy presents Climate at a Crossroads.

Join us on October 9, in Ottawa or online. climateatacrossroads.eventbri...
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thewalrus.ca
Worried about climate change and the impact of disinformation of policies and strategies to combat it? Then you can't miss Max Bell School of Public Policy presents Climate at a Crossroads.

Join us on October 9, in Ottawa or online. climateatacrossroads.eventbri...
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by Andrew Leach

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leachandrew.github.io/NIR/
Canada’s National Inventory Report
## Canada's National Inventory Report Each year, Canada and all other signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change submit [annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs)](https:/...
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Trump brings up "Governor Trudeau" and says, "I have to be honest. As a state, it works great. As a nation ... why are we spending $200 billion? It doesn't make sense."
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
It shouldn't but, and I hope that remains true. But a free trade deal should also mean no tariffs, so I guess we'll see. But, if we get into turning off taps, the transshipment must be on the table.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
The biggest issues are Sarnia and Montreal, which rely on Canadian crude moving through the US.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
From last night. Don't let anyone convince you that "we export crude and import the refined products back to Canada." that's not how it works.
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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · Feb 3
Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
It's rhetoric brought from other industries where the scarcity lies at different points in the supply chain. Little profit in logs relative to lumber or furniture. Trees are plentiful. Large oil resources remain relatively scarce.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
1. The returns on refining pale relative to extraction, and we're not short resources.
2. Labour has opportunity costs and refining is also one of the least labour intensive industries around.
3. We already do that.

Old, tired arguments based on mythology of where the margins lie in oil and gas.
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by Andrew Leach

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · Feb 3
Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
and that, in most months, we produce more than we need.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
It should not be, but who knows?
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
In theory, almost all of it.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
We produce most of our own products. The bigger issue is that we move a lot of our crude *through* the US to Ontario and QC.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Very small net exporters.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Short production curtailment of what? Products? Or crude + bitumen?
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Why?
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
It's EIA data for the US.

by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
I don't understand what you mean? Almost all of our refined products do remain in the domestic market.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Too many Canadians are under the impression that we export crude and import refined products in our trade relationship with the US. The first is true, and the second is true to a much smaller degree only in some parts of Canada for some fuels. In general, we're net exporters of refined products too.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Offered without comment: almost all of the US supply of nuclear fuel is imported. Here's where it comes from:
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Oh, hello existential dread and related feelings.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Correct.

by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
There was never a time when every hard worker had a pension. And if you factor in the share that are public sector here, a class of people PP likely doesn't think of as hard workers on the whole, the story gets even more ridiculous.
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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · Jan 31
Graphs that come in handy.

2/ Registered pension plan membership in 🇨🇦, 1976-2021
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
We're going to go back to a time when every worker had powerful paycheques...
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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · Jan 31
Some graphs I think come in handy sometimes.

1/ Average weekly earnings, 1983-2022, adjusted for inflation
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Wait, you're saying that every hard worker in Canada didn't have a powerful paycheque and a pension before Trudeau took office? Shocked.
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by Andrew Leach

aleach.ca
Y-axis is, yes.
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by Andrew Leach

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Share of pension coverage. Sorry, my screenshot cut off.
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tammyschirle.bsky.social
Graphs that come in handy.

2/ Registered pension plan membership in 🇨🇦, 1976-2021
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