Skippy Granola posted:

Ok ok, Alberta is kind of trash.

But... where else can I go?

infernal machines posted:

Is communal dining fundamentally incompatible with Canadian Values™?

Skippy Granola posted:

Ok ok, Alberta is kind of trash.

But... where else can I go?

JawKnee posted:

Are you familiar with vancouverites? This is not some hippy collective. It's hipster central (near) Main st. You are dealing with some real stupid assholes. To boot this dining experience has all the joy of eating in a crowded convention hall off of paper plates, and you get to hunt down your own seats as well, and if you thought people wouldn't try to reserve whole tables with various items of clothing, think again.

JawKnee posted:

and you get to hunt down your own seats as well

Postess with the Mostest posted:

You sound a little high maintenance.

JawKnee posted:

gosh I guess If I don't like paying for the privilege of eating like I'm in high school again I'm suddenly living in the suburbs? (false) Or not okay with communal dining? (false)

It's pretty funny seeing CI tell me to chill out though, given your usual histrionics.

namaste faggots posted:

Gosh just shut the gently caress up retard

namaste faggots posted:

Gosh just shut the gently caress up retard

JawKnee posted:

make me, bitch

if you think chafing dish warmed perogies and kubasa are the good stuff you're an idiot

cowofwar posted:

Protesting to evict a homeless person from living in a tent in a park in the winter should get your house filled with used syringes.

Lightning Lord posted:

If I'm white can I go live in Nunavut?

PT6A posted:

gently caress it, just stay in Alberta and build a seething resentment towards every moron and rear end in a top hat you deal with on a regular basis and then bitch about it on the internet. It works for me!

cowofwar posted:

Baronjutter posted:

The Ukrainian cultural centre in Victoria does this once a month and it's generally a huge line down the block to get in and wait in a massive line to eat in a big cafeteria setting. The food is ok but I don't know why people line up down the block for it. I also don't know why they don't do it twice a month or more if it's so popular.

namaste faggots posted:

I get perogies every first Friday at the Ukrainian church even though I have an irrational hatred of Catholics.

I'm tired of you all calling me a racist

JawKnee posted:

that perogie dinner loving sucks

Rime posted:

You haven't lived until you've eaten Khinkali, IMO. Especially if it's in a drunken contest and you're plonking the tops down all macho like shots in that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Duggler posted:

Hey I've had these!

They suck!

The Duggler posted:

Hey I've had these!

They suck!

CLAM DOWN posted:

Xiaolongbao are delicious gently caress you

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‘The tide has turned against them’: B.C. LNG projects likely stranded beyond 2020 amid global glut

CALGARY — A new report suggests LNG prices will remain low well beyond 2020, further eroding Canada’s ambitions to become a prominent exporter of the super-cooled gas in coming years.

Analysts at Moody’s Investor Service said that global LNG markets are likely to remain oversupplied well into the next decade as Asian demand for the gas weakens and new supplies begin entering the market.

The estimate runs counter to some other analyst projections, which expect markets to balance in the next few years to create a so-called “second wave” of opportunity for would-be LNG exporters in Canada.

The international LNG market has grown rapidly over the past few years as rising demand for the gas, particularly in Asian countries, kicked off a global race to meet future supply needs.

Canada was among the countries vying to enter the market, and around 20 LNG export facilities were proposed to be built along the British Columbia coast, which would be fed by sizeable natural gas fields in northern B.C. and Alberta.


In recent years substantial volumes of new supply started entering the market from facilities in Australia, the U.S. and elsewhere, satisfying demand for the gas.

Mihoko Manabe, a Moody’s analyst who contributed to the report, said Canada’s missed opportunity to enter the LNG market is partly a result of oversupply. But she added that the shortcoming is also a result of political fumbles and local environmental opposition to the projects at a time when companies were more open to make major investments in Western Canadian LNG.

“In the last few years, I think the tide has turned against them—and a lot of it is beyond the cyclical ups and downs of commodity prices,” Manabe said.

Around 34 million tonnes per annum of LNG came online in 2016, the report said, with an additional 105 mtpa expected to be added over the next three years—roughly a quarter of the expected total LNG market in 2020.

The Moody’s analyst doubts demand for large-scale LNG facilities will return to its former levels, even after markets eventually rebalance. Investors are more likely to flock toward smaller, more incremental developments at facilities that have already signed contracts with buyers.

“It’s a lot more economic to expand an existing plant,” she said.

Another threat is the growth of Floating Storage Gasification Units (FSGUs), as they are called in the industry, which offer much cheaper and more versatile supplies of LNG that can reach yet-untapped markets.

“That has allowed the market to diversify into areas, like the Middle East for example,” she said.

The report comes as Christy Clark’s BC Liberal Party heads into a provincial election in May, after promising to develop Canada’s LNG industry during the last election cycle.

A decision by the federal government last September to approve the $11.4-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG, proposed by a consortium led by Malaysia-based Petronas, was used by the party as evidence that it was gradually realizing those ambitions. However many analysts say the consortium is likely to delay a final investment decision until market indications improve.

Analysts say the changing structure of global LNG markets will tighten competition along B.C.’s coast to build the first export facility.

“The projects that go forward will be the best of the best,” said Jihad Traya, an analyst with Solomon Associates in Calgary.

“Of all the 20-plus projects that were proposed, they were all on their own world-class. But within that pool their will still be significant attrition,” he said.

LNG markets often take years for demand and supply to balance out, according to Traya. However the falling costs of renewable energy sources like wind and solar will also pose a challenge to would-be exporters of LNG when markets near a more balanced state.

“The difference is that they now have to compete against renewables in ways that weren’t necessarily conceived or understood before.”

The global LNG market is expected to grow over the next few years despite increased competition. Solomon Associates expects the global liquefaction capacity could reach 85 billion cubic feet per day in 2025, up from 41 bcfd in 2016.