chicken without the horn

Terrible forest fires across the northern half of the prairie provinces. Makes me wonder how a methane pipeline to Churchill from Fort Mac would work - it would pass through exactly where all of these forest fires are.

There is a first ministers meeting happening in Saskatoon presently; each provincial and territorial leader is to present up to five nation building projects to propose. Then, PM Carney and all of the leaders will come to a decision as to which 2-5 of these will get selected to begin ASAP.

For me the important ones are to electricity intertie Quebec and Ontario, and, to accelerate the high speed rail project. Well, for Canadian Unity I would also propose the pipeline from northern Alberta to Hudson Bay so that we can ship LNG from there to Europe. As a Climate Change supporting person I am against any progress of fossil fuels, but at this time in Canada, I feel that Canadian unity trumps the need for addressing climate change in such a way that prevents a pipeline from being built.

I had ChatGPT help me with this next part - Hudson Bay ices over every winter to a 1 to 2m thickness which is difficult for ice breakers. So, if we use an ice breaker only during the shoulder seasons to allow for an expanded shipping period, during the four winter months tanks built at the Churchill LNG port can store a reduced flow of methane from Alberta, and then those tanks can be emptied into the LNG ships for shipment to Europe when the shipping season starts.

I also read about building a pipeline at around 58.75N latitude, not an easy project at all to make it both fireproof, and, to have it cross thousands of lakes, both small and big.