PMO casually inquires how many oil tankers could sail through flooded parts of BC - The Beaverton
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PMO casually inquires how many oil tankers could sail through flooded parts of BC

– With large parts of still underwater due to -related rainfall, the Prime Minister’s Office has offered condolences and also lowkey asked whether tankers could be sailed through the flooded communities.

“This is a terrible climate tragedy, and we will do everything we can to help the British Columbians affected,” explained Prime Minister , “but also, if overseas oil could be shipped right inland through the Fraser Valley, the profit margins from that could be pretty amazing.”

“Just saying,” added Trudeau, before resuming his concerned expression.

With flood waters stretching several miles inland, many oil industry observers are also wondering whether this humanitarian crisis could be turned into some kind of opportunity.

“Look, we get it, climate change is bad, yadda yadda,” said Hank Markson, spokesman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. “But as long as we’re halfway across the river, or in this case the Fraser Valley, why not just keep going? I could have billions of crude oil sailing to Indonesia straight out of Chilliwack, tonight. Or why not think bigger, and maybe build a floating pipeline?”

“Can’t a pipeline while you’re underwater,” Markson noted while winking.

While all observers agree that the ecological damage in British Columbia is due to man-made climate change, some are questioning whether it didn’t go far enough.

“The good people of are ready to help the flood victims of British Columbia,” said Alberta Premier during an address. “Or, and hear me out on this, we do even more climate change and flood everything all the way up to the /Alberta border, opening up new oil shipping lanes! It’s win/win, in that Alberta will win twice and BC could possibly win an unrelated thing.”

At press time residents of rural British Columbia are less concerned about possible oil tankers and more worried about currently-advancing pirate schooners.