Quick Dick McDick coming to you here today with a Quick Dick McDick Toonie where you get
two dollars worth of my opinion because
two cents just don't buy ya much anymore
today we're talking about the Canadian
Oil and Gas Industry
Now we're gonna be doing this Quick Dick style so you pay the hell attention or slow the video down cuz we got a lot of ground to cover here folks
Now this isn't gonna be some video where Quick Dicks gonna sit here and preach to everybody
that we need oil and gas so you better
get used to it this is just a simple
quick look at some of the places that we
can find oil and gas in our lives and
how we get them first of all let's have
a look at where we find oil and gas
products being used and Quick Dickcan assure you you're not gonna have to look
very far to find those
how did this glorious shower get so hot
oil and gas products why is it so damn
cold outside but then when I come
inside so damn nice and warm oil gas
products what powers our vehicles and
all the farm equipment that we use to
feed the globe oil and gas products
what the heck is used to make our mobile talking device thingies our computerized thingies and even our plastic food storage
container thingies oil and gas products
Furthermore how do we get those fancy gadgets into our hands
Well we get them from planes, trains, commercial ships and good old fashioned commercial truck transportation
Which is powered by what?  Oil and gas products
what makes the tires that we
drive our vehicles on and furthermore
what makes the pavement that those tires
drive on
Oil and Gas products
what about our health care system what makes tubes and syringes what makes
ventilators what makes PPE that our
frontline health care workers use to
protect themselves you know like doctors
and nurses that work at our hospitals
don't forget about the workers at our
extended care homes and of course our
first responders oil and gas products I
I want to take a moment to stop this
segment and thank all of our frontline
health care workers for carrying us
through this pandemic with your bravery
and resilience you always have been and
always will be heroes to us
thanks for putting your life on the line
every day to make sure that we can
continue on with ours
we appreciate you from the bottom of our
hearts speaking of frontline workers
what about those that have chose to
serve and protect us can anybody tell
quick dick what's used to make Kevlar
I'll give you a hint
it is not kevlar tree oil and gas products products
speaking of which here's another shout out
to RCMP city police sheriff's and Armed
Forces all those of you that have put
your lives on the line to help protect
people we thank you what about
playground equipment is Quick Dick
starting to get his point across now if
you're like quick dick was way back in
the day here's what you think of right away
when you hear oil and gas industry
Well that's just not the case at all folks so
why don't we have a quick look at what
it takes to actually get oil and gas
products into our hands that we as
people can use here in Canada now before
we get going here is a quick disclaimer to
all your hard working folks out the oil and
gas industry quick dick knows he's gonna
miss a whole bunch of in this
we're just doing a quick notes edition so
everyone gets a general idea of what
this takes okay if I missed you get down
in the comment section and call quick
dick an asshole
Seismic and survey crews map it out and find it now what's a few things we find in our
economy that it takes to make seismic and
surveyed crews work it takes personnel
to run that seismic it survey crew it
takes ATV dealerships pickup dealerships
mechanics and of course GPS and mapping companies and then it is time to make
the lease and the lease access
construction crews come in with track
hoes sheeps foot Packers cats buggies
graders and they make the lease and the
roads leading to them then it's time for
drilling rigs to come in now that takes
drilling crews rig movers rat holers 
water trucks pipe trucks cement trucks
vac trucks tool hands tong trucks
tank rentals and on and on and on and on
Once the drilling rig is done completion crews come in for completions
operations on the well now this takes
wellhead companies coil tubing wireline
frac crews fluid management well
testers bulk trucks and on and on and on
then normally once the wells completed
facilities are constructed on the well
site now this step takes engineers
fabricators fitters welders
instrumentation electrician's pile
drivers cranes and on and on and on then the well gets tied into a pipeline which has to be put
in by pipeline crew this step takes
pipeline crews and welders and helpers
and inspectors and cat operators and
track hoe operators and on and on and on oil
and gas products then get shipped to
upgrading and refining facilities after
which they're made available to
customers this takes more operators
instrumentation electrical trades
commercial transportation and on and on and on
ogoing care and maintenance of these wells continue long throughout their life
cycles now this stage takes operator
swabbing rigs vac trucks tank trucks
pressure trucks snubbers coil tubing rigs
of course don't forget about service
rigs now a lot of your think well quick
dick that seems like a lot of services
well guess what we're not done yet
because all those services require
headquarters and an office that requires
support staff
how about quick dick and Morty take
you on a quick tour and show you how
many other businesses depend on all
these services mechanical tire shops part
supply stores hospitality services like
camps and hotels Welding and machine
shops road maintenance grocery stores
truck and car washes restaurants gas
stations and convenience stores that's a
hell of a lot of stuff and we haven't
even begun to scratch the surface but I
think we all get the point
the unfortunate thing is that the Canadian oil and gas industry has been labeled as
dirty which is not the case whatsoever
ask anybody that works in the oil and
gas industry here in Canada and they'll
tell you that it's quite the contrary
now here are a few of the many things
that the Canadian oil and gas industry
does here in Canada to reduce their
environmental impact
fun fact about oil and gas well sites
and pipeline right of ways the trees
that are harvested from them are taken
to local mills that are used in the
softwood lumber industry now that's two
industries helping to reduce
environmental impact horizontal drilling
has  made it possible for drilling rigs to
set up on one location and drill several
wells in different directions
this combined with walking drilling rigs
means that they don't have to bring rig
movers in to move the rig every day this
is a huge reduction on environmental
impact did you know that drilling companies and frac companies have started burning natural gas instead of
diesel fuel to greatly reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions during
completions and drilling operations
that's a hell of a good step you see
even frac crews pump produced water
versus fresh water whenever possible and
in some situations they've even pumped
sewage imagine being the poor bastard
that has to go shoulder deep in this
suction manifold to clean out a turd now
that's some commitment to a healthy
environment there's actually oil and gas
companies here in southern Saskatchewan
that buy carbon emissions and use it in
oil and gas extraction processes of
their own rendering themselves carbon
negative tell me that's not a commitment
to environmental sustainability
Now these are just a few of the many things that the Canadian oil and gas industry does
to keep themselves not only the most environmentally responsible producer
of oil and gas products in the world but
also one of the top exporters of it now
quick dick why have you gone on this
journey showing us where our oil and gas
comes from and how we get it to our
houses well folks as you all may know
we're in the middle of a global pandemic
right now and it's pretty important to
look at where things come from that are
actually keeping us alive you see our
oil and gas industry not only keeps us
fueled but it keeps our economy fueled
as well which quick dick is hoping a lot of
Canadians can see at this specific point
in time is a pretty damn important thing
the Canadian oil and gas industry has
been decimated by this federal
government since 2015
then add a production war between Saudi
and Russia kicked it in the guts then
COVID-19 dumped gas and threw a match on
it when we saw a global demand for oil
and gas fall through the floor now the
Canadian oil and gas industry reaches
out to the federal government for help a
federal government that they've
contributed hundreds of billions of
dollars to over the last few years and
the federal government responds with a
1.7 billion dollar orphan well clean up
program for Western Canada now all of
these things happening and our federal
government makes an investment of 1.7
billion dollars into an orphan well
cleanup project in Western Canada
can you imagine investing 1.7 billion
dollars into something at this point in
time in our economy that is going to
show you no return on said investment
whatsoever who makes these decisions now
how come in 2009 during the financial
crisis we could scrounge up thirteen
billion dollars for the Canadian auto
sector but we can only round up 1.7 for
the oil and gas industry on a cleanup
project right now are we setting some
money aside somewhere for some kind of
people that were fancy socks bailout
that we don't know about you see back in
the Great Depression the federal
government actually paid people to build
fences in something called the Prairie
farm Rehabilitation Act which provided
drought relief to cattle producers
cattle producers who had a commodity
that everybody knew was gonna be worth
something once they came out of this
terrible financial turmoil why wouldn't we
do the same thing right now and actually
invest some money into some
infrastructure that would help make our
commodity worth more and more available
to the world when this glut comes to an
end here's an idea instead of blowing 19
billion dollars a year on importing
crude from around the world why don't we
invest in our own infrastructure and use
Canadian oil and gas spoiler alert Aberta's already doing it with the Keystone XL
All you gotta do is look West unless you live in BC then you gotta look east but they're already on the
right track I mean what would better
complement the Keystone XL pipeline than
adding energy east and the northern
gateway pipeline getting our product of
multiple markets that we had some sort
of say in the price of it see you'd hope that what a
responsible government would do would be to invest
in industries that make up like 10
percent of their GDP and employ half a
million Canadians that could actually start
contributing towards clawing their way out of $230B worth of debt
The could you imagine said government using the revenue generated by that industry to grow
Canada in an environmentally responsible
way in which we can all continue to do
business like investing in renewables
and nuclear oh wait isn't that what
we're supposed to be doing with our
carbon tax revenue
see working towards more environmentally friendly energy sources is something Canada should
continue to do but if we choose to
ignore the fact that the globe is still
going to need oil and gas products we're
committing economical suicide see Canada could and
should be a leader in all these energy
sources but in order for us to get the
ball rolling on any of them we need an
economy that's actually making us some
money to do so because hopefully we can
see that for generations to come we're
gonna need revenue off things like our
oil and gas industry to claw our way out
of debt that this free spending
government is dive-bombing us into but
that's just how quick dick sees it this
is quick dick mcdick and Kaci signing
off reminding you there's only one way
this storm can be weathered and that's
one big Canada all working together right
Kaci?  we'll catch you next time
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