Alberta approves three oilsands projects worth potential $4 billion in investments

Announcing projects that will never be built is better than announcing F"ALL

WTG Rachel

Like there'll ever be single shovel put into the ground for any of them.

I'm confused. These companies requested approval. The government approved them.

Why is it that Rachel is at fault again?

Their props for her Carbon Tax IMO

They need approvals and construction to commence so the plants can go online and provide them with the carbon taxes they'll need to keep the government operating. It's not bad economics as such but it seems kind of oblivious to the one-two punch that was laid on us by (a) the Arabs, and (b) the preference by eastern Canada to use imported oil from the Arabs & the Americans instead of from Alberta.

Fuck it, let the whole bogus edifice fall down complete. Enough of the illusions and whistling past the damn graveyard already. It's all over. We'll have to get used to it.

That's a business decision isn't it? There are all sorts of regulations they have to comply with, whether they want to run the operation under local regulations and whether it will be profitable to do so. From what I can tell from the companies websites, they all seem excited at these new projects. No indication one way or the other as to their fate.

Is that what is Rachael's fault?

Because blaming it on Obama would make even less sense?

Who hired the anti pipeline activists for the oil sands advisory board and came out this week saying Alberta doesn't need any new pipeline.

Starting to smell like the old NEP


NDP should fire Berman after new comments on pipelines: Wildrose
September 15, 2016 2:45 PM

Premier Rachel Notley should fire Tzeporah Berman as co-chair to the Oil Sands Advisory Group and repudiate her claims on national radio today that Alberta doesn�t need new pipelines, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today.

In an interview on CBC�s The Current, Berman said we �have capacity� within the current pipeline system to reach the NDP government�s new emissions cap and said it's �just not true anymore� that Alberta needs new pipeline development to have economic success.

�Premier Notley�s chief advisor on oilsands development shouldn�t be going on national radio and discrediting the work of our most important industry. Not only are Ms. Berman�s opinions damaging to the reputation of our province and energy sector, but they are also factually incorrect,� Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said. �The Premier needs to immediately and publicly correct the statements made by Ms. Berman and replace her on the Oil Sands Advisory Group with somebody who at least believes in the economics and science behind pipeline development.�

In an interview earlier this summer, Berman called Alberta�s oilsands industry toxic, compared Fort McMurray to Mordor and also has a long history campaigning against pipelines.

With projects like Energy East facing hurdles after radical activists shut down National Energy Board hearings, Wildrose Shadow Energy Minister Leela Aheer said it�s critical that Premier Notley send a message that these type of inaccurate comments will not be tolerated.

�The fact is, over a hundred thousand workers in Canada�s energy sector have seen their jobs vanish in the past year alone, with a lack of construction on new pipelines to tidewater being a contributing factor,� Aheer said. �Ms. Berman has built an entire career being at war with the oilsands. It is clear she is not moderating her positions.�

I can see people that dont read contracts that end up taking themselves to court to........sue themselves, would play the stick game.