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If you’ve lived here long enough, you know that politics in this province rarely sleeps. A lot can happen in just one week. It’s our hope this newsletter will be informative for both the casual news reader and the average #ableg-obsessed Albertan.
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So why and how have pipelines been demonized?
Because of failure. Despite decades of attacks using every gimmick possible, the anti-oil crowd has failed to shut down Canada’s oil sands. Long the primary target of global activists, production from this huge resource continues to grow. That’s right, even anti-oil governments have not shut down this resource.
The activists understand that inadequate takeaway capacity limits further investment exactly what has transpired. Since President Obama refused to approve the cross-border leg of Keystone XL, opposition, blockades and legal challenges of pipelines have become popular tools to keep oil in the ground.
Glenn Krause
(Double Mutant Variant, coming soon to theatres– wait, no, strike that. Movie theatres here aren’t open yet.)
BLUE HOO!
Who’d have thunk it! That Doug Ford, the guy who ran on the platform of “a buck a beer” in Ontario, and Jason Kenney, the guy who claimed he lived in his mother’s basement in a retirement residence “that did not allow subletting,” would not be capable of leading their provinces through the most complicated crisis of our lifetimes!
KEN TARABULA
(And everyone else is doing such a bang-up job, right? It’s easy to pick on Conservatives but maybe aim a little higher in the blame game.)
The call is coming from inside the house.
The classic horror movie trope is rather fitting considering for the past two weeks serious fractures within Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party (UCP) have begun to surface after dozens of party MLAs publicly criticized Premier Jason Kenney for recent COVID-19 restrictions they say move the province backwards. Kenney responded saying would boot members from his caucus if they break COVID-19 health rules or encourage others to do so.
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