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RSS FeedsKenney convinces Albertans he can bring back the oil boom
(The Star Food)

 
 

17 april 2019 18:54:58

 
Kenney convinces Albertans he can bring back the oil boom
(The Star Food)
 


Alberta is now in reverse gear and roaring backwards.Given the decisive victory of Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party over Rachel Notley and the NDP in Tuesday’s election that’s the direction most voters opted for.Back to the boom days of $100 a barrel oil. Back to a time when there were more jobs than people to fill them. Back to the day when a high-school dropout could earn $100,000 a year driving a truck for an oilsands giant. Back to a time when no one had even thought of climate change. Back to the days when environmentalists were simply harmless weirdos.It’s all a delusion, of course.Kenney may have promised to take Alberta back to the glory days but given oil and natural gas’s shaky future his chances of getting it there, are slim.But give him credit for being able to stoke people’s anger about the downward slide in Alberta’s economy to the point that they came to believe he can actually turn things around; although he can do nothing about the price of oil on which the fate of Alberta’s economy rests.He can’t stop climate change and thereby reverse the international trend toward decarbonization.He can’t stop pension funds and other large investors from turning away from companies that are not socially and environmentally sustainable, such as fossil fuel producers.Of course, he can threaten and brow beat the federal government, always a vote getter in Alberta, for not pushing through more pipelines. But the federal government now owns the Trans Mountain pipeline to the West Coast, so it is very likely going to get built anyway.And he can hold a referendum on equalization payments as a way of stoking even more anger and feelings of victimhood about federal income tax revenue from Alberta going to other provinces even though the results of such a referendum won’t change anything.And he can repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, which along with pipeline angst became a symbol of all the thing ...


 
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