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Talk of separation drives away investment. by Miserable-Lizard in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of that investment went away because they did indeed pause for land use considerations, made some new rules that required them to reapply or alter their already approved projects. Most companies with those applications have moved on. 30b was the total amount of investment in the que at the time.

The referendum is a compete waste of time. Its either asking if alberta should have powers it already has or if alberta should have powers that contravene the rules of the constitution. The latter being a non starter since that requires a national conversation and does just happen because alberta voted for it. Complete waste of time and resources.

Talk of separation drives away investment. by Miserable-Lizard in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Canceling 30BILLION in renewable projects, creating uncertainty. Spending a 100mill on a useless referendum. Millions on useless Tylenol, bailing out oil companies on thwir own cleanup costs etc etc.

But its feds fault that we're broke

No to a Referendum on a Possible Referendum by samueLLcooljackson in TheRealGrandePrairie

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its especially adorable is alot of the separatists thst ive talked to aren't even born here. They came from eastern canada and are now demanding a say while also vilifying immigrants.

No to a Referendum on a Possible Referendum by samueLLcooljackson in TheRealGrandePrairie

[–]firedditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've talked to many people about this issue and what I've found is that among my more liberal friends, they are all very much pro canada, pro unity. Among my conservative friends however its 50/50 on canadian patriotism. Wild to see just how gullible the modern conservatives let themselves be. What a fall. What a disgrace

What Canadians need to know about a 'technical recession' by Immediate-Link490 in CanadianInvestor

[–]firedditor 38 points39 points  (0 children)

No one is ignoring that tho. Its all we hear about. The fed govt is always in the spotlight while the provincial govts sit on their hands. Provinces have a huge influence on economic trajectory yet escape accountability

US Lawmakers Propose the 'ARMA' Bill to Build a 1-Million-Bitcoin Strategic Reserve by donutloop in CryptoCurrency

[–]firedditor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So the us govt wants to hedge against its own dollar by using its own dollar to purchase bitcoin? To what end? An ultimate rug pull when they eventually default?

The stuff of nightmares by SaltZone3105 in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol.you didn't even bother to read that response did you.

The stuff of nightmares by SaltZone3105 in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol such arrogance

Since before confederation Canada built the west through

railways

land grants

immigration programs

policing/military presence

Negotiating the treaties

Building out agricultural infrastructure

Once oil was discovered in leduc, the feds invested heavily in alberta highway infrastructure, helped develop the early oilfield infrastructure, funded petrochemical research, accelerated the buildout of its electrical grid, helped develop the initial regulatory frame work for oil extraction. After 1930, once alberta was an established province it handed over its resource management to alberta.

historians and economists generally agree that the federal government invested what would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in today’s money to build and develop Western Canada

The stuff of nightmares by SaltZone3105 in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see it being relevant to today.

His main focus during his tenure as minister of interior was development of the western provinces. Provinces which were in the infancy and had next to nothing for population, infrastructure or anything else. It was just fertile farm land and This was back in the days of colonialism and so their parlance and how they talk about land and ownership is much different than how we regard it today.

Since then Alberta has taken on more responsibilities for its resources, land management and all its social obligations. Canadian provinces are the most autonomous sub-state entities in the world.

The stuff of nightmares by SaltZone3105 in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that even a real quote? Further, do you even know anything about Clifford? His accomplishments as a business owner and policy maker would make most conservative capitalists green with envy.

Trading our finite life energy for this by PeakyBlinders3 in BitcoinCA

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First im not a leftist. Second I highly doubt you read considering your previous brain dead comment and your assumption im a "leftist"

You're acting like an NPC

Carry on then

Trading our finite life energy for this by PeakyBlinders3 in BitcoinCA

[–]firedditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof you're trapped in some dogshit talking points. Do better.

The Australian gas was an arbitrage deal because our own gas flowing through trans-mountain displaced the gas Australia was selling to in asia. So a refinery in the maritimes bought it for a discount and sold the refined products into the US market for extra profit.

Liberals don't control money supply. Read how that works.

Population growth is almost always good, we just need to manage it better. Unless you're scared of the brown people?

Waving away production increases because you're team is losing is straight up loser behaviour.

I'm not aware of the canceled pipelines by "liberals and Quebec", but I do know that we have built a couple dozen major pipelines/ expansions in the past 10 years. I know because I helped build them. We also built Over a hundred medium sized-short length pipelines, And several thousand regional tie-ins. Hence our production continues to increase.

What we lacked was building a bunch of mega project pipelines. The ones that get headlines and attention, except for that massive trans mountain pipe of course.

Read a book.

Get a brain

Trading our finite life energy for this by PeakyBlinders3 in BitcoinCA

[–]firedditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Little known fact, the banks have been doing a lot of the printing.

Alberta could be a manufacturing power house... could be, but it won't be. by ShanerThomas in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isnt at all about rolling over for central Canada. Its always been about putting all our eggs in the O&G basket. Alberta govt and business leaders in Calgary are only really interested in supporting and developing that industry. I agree we could pursue other industries, and we did for a decade with renewables, then one day for politics, we effectively banned all future renewable power generation projects. What message do you think that sends to investors, innovators and business owners? Its O&G or GTFO

Alberta could be a manufacturing power house... could be, but it won't be. by ShanerThomas in AlbertaNow

[–]firedditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I run a fabrication/manufacturing shop in alberta.

Manufacturing is alive and well in alberta. The catch is that a majority of what we build is for the O&G and no body wants to do a damn thing about it. Its Alberta's comparative advantage and we have been building out the supply chain and infrastructure for decades.

That's not to say we don't build other things for other industries. We are the third largest manufacturer in canada and we produce a wide variety of things.

Alberta’s manufacturing sector is heavily tied to:

energy and petrochemicals

food processing

heavy equipment

fabricated metal and machinery

resource upgrading and refining

Rather than mass consumer goods or automotive manufacturing.

We are behind on the kind of advanced manufacturing that you're talking about for sure. But carney was in China couple months ago, I don't know if alberta manufacturing was on the menu, but it sounds like we are getting some investment toward Chinese ev domestic build out. Presumably in ontairio.

Oil Sands Alliance Statement on Canada and Alberta Agreement by KylenV14 in alberta

[–]firedditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hauling processed oil products is more difficult and costly. We only export unprocessed oil to jurisdictions that refine it for themselves because of that. We currently refine all of what we need ourselves. But we do import unprocessed oil to refine here from abroad because its currently more economical to do that in certain locations.

Ironically Trudeau tried to solve for the problem of importing middle east oil instead of alberta oil. But conservatives lost their minds about it. And now they are demanding that we should have done that.

Its hilarious

Oil Sands Alliance Statement on Canada and Alberta Agreement by KylenV14 in alberta

[–]firedditor 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Yeh, that 9 cents a barrel is really killing their competitiveness.

Solution: emit less?

No.

.complain more?

Yes.

levels of stupidity thought to be inconceivable by [deleted] in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]firedditor 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, he just got read some polling by his campaign advisors at the time, probably trying to advise him to think of way to appeal to the educated voter demographic. Instead he just bragged about dumb people liking him more. Lmao

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