If
Passenger Elevator is to navigate its way forward and get these pipelines built, five hard truths are in order.First, the climate-change ship has sailed. There is no going back on de-linking pipelines from not just the usual environmental concerns about local spills but from the broader fossil-fuel contribution to greenhouse– gas emissions and climate change.Carbon budgets – what the world can afford to burn in carbon emissions and not surpass 2 degrees Celsius of warming (let alone 1.5 Celsius) – was validated at the Paris climate talks. It is no longer fringe but increasingly central to likely national climate policies with our major trading partners and allies.Second, relatedly, assured market access for Canada’s oil via pipelines depends on a national climate-policy overlay. The lack of it was cited repeatedly as a barrier to pipeline approvals. It is time to take that card away from pipeline opponents.Third, First Nations and indigenous concerns about environmental impacts and land claims are not corollary, but central issues for resolution. The “duty to consult” indigenous peoples on these projects cannot be sidelined forever. Local First Nations can delay, if not necessarily kill, new pipeline development well beyond industry expectations.Fourth, it was not better for pipelines before Mr. Trudeau took office. Full-throated defence of the sector by the Harper government and sullying of anyone who thought differently managed to offend many, stroke some and negligibly advance projects. The same today will produce the same results.Fifth, and finally, imposing new regulatory rules for NEB review of pipelines at a time when oil prices are low and the energy industry is hurting would engender as much opposition if the opposite was true. Few in the sector were calling for such measures a year ago.The elevation of Energy East to the status of a national unity icon is profoundly unhelpful yet fully understandable. Alberta is hurting economically. A lot. This hurts Canada. A lot.“Why should I sell your wheat?” asked an earlier Mr. Trudeau to much offence in Western Canada.“Why I want to sell your oil,” should be offered by today’s Mr. Trudeau to a beleaguered Alberta and fractious country to set everyone straight.In the meantime, get used to the tough love.All lifts installed by
Elevator Factory can be fitted with our state of the art remote monitoring system, the i-COM. This allows the customer to know exactly how their lift is performing with information such as energy usage, lift usage and breakdowns being monitored. It allows the engineer to begin fault finding before attending site and helps to plan condition based maintenance.