On May-30-25, Stephanie Taylor (staylor@postmedia.com) wrote an article in the National Post.
Here’s the link to her story >
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nova-scotias-wind-west-albertas-100017638.html
I’ve pasted a couple paragraphs below – which are located near the end of that article. This is the headline for this story >
From Nova Scotia’s ‘Wind West’ to Alberta’s pipeline dream, here are the national projects premiers are pitching Carney
TransCanada announced in 2017 that it was cancelling its proposed Energy East pipeline that would have carried oil from Western Canada to New Brunswick and Quebec.
Both Alberta and Saskatchewan have called on Carney to repeal laws critics say have been hostile to pipeline development, namely the Impact Assessment Act and tanker ban off of British Columbia’s northern coast, which were ushered in under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, and have long been a source of contention.
Over the years – there probably have been hundreds of published articles about Canada’s pipelines, ones that are built, ones that could be built and others cancelled.
Somewhere in my big collection of idea notebooks – there’s an image of Alberta and Pipelines. The process of obtaining props started last fall. The Alberta shape had to be made. Purchased 1, 2 and 3 inch foam sheets from Rona in Calgary. Then had to buy and modify a hot-wire cutter. Got a map of Canada from the gas station in Black Diamond. I cut Alberta out. It was 8 inches long. Built a system to enlarge that piece of paper. I had the PumpJack already, so I used it as guide – on just how big the Alberta shape should be. Ended up being 22 inches long and 3 inches thick. From there, I selected one of the 4 possible types of “grass” – that were sitting in the Prop Shed. Then proceeded to cut the grass to fit. For reasons not currently known, the federal (?) land surveyors made such a convoluted and jagged border – along that SW side of the newly minted province of Alberta.
The valves and other fittings were 3d printed – from a supplier on eBay. They all had to be cleaned up with the dremel and various grinding/polishing pads. Took many days…
Then drilling those 30+ pieces to make clean 3/8 holes (for the white 3/8 tubing). Then airbrushing all the ‘fittings’ and finally using a brush to paint red onto the valve wheels.
Since I now had two new Alberta flags (from the previous shoot), I then had to find the time – to build my own pipeline system. Had to look at google images – to get a rough idea where some of the major pipelines in Alberta were located. Wanted to keep my image reasonably simple. Otherwise it would have become a “plumbing” nightmare. Got it made in one evening.
Also saved this small image – thought it was an interesting tidbit >
Had an idea how to show projects – that had problems. Purchased some play sand from Home Depot in Calgary around xmas time. You heat up some sand in the oven at 400 degrees F, then carefully pour it into the 3/8 tubing. Wearing gloves and carefully using a heat gun on the outside, the plastic tubing then becomes soft. Then one tries to twist the tubing into a “knot”. That would be a perfect way to show the “troubles” faced by several companies and/or provinces…
Since I figured out how to do it, I decided not to do it… 🙂
Came up with a better, more simple visual solution.
Having those 2 extra pipes just sitting there – at an angle and not connected. This scenario of “Pending” seems to be a nice visual metaphor – that nicely reflects our current state of affairs… 🙂