2027 Alberta's 32nd General Election

[ThePenIsMightier]

CBC being objective.

[ExtraSlow]

Pushing back on the feds - good.
Some kind of review of power production - probably necessary but I don't know if it was handled well.
Pushing back against activist schools - I have mixed feelings in how this went.
Tacking government waste - has that improved beyond rhetoric?

Overall a mixed bag to me. Not terrible, not great.

[killramos]

People vote for people to represent them the way they want to be represented.

Weird concept for the liberal masochists to wrap their heads around but hey.

[davidI]

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Journey lol

The market never likes Alex Verge for some reason. I like his style. He definitely underestimated the bureaucracy involved with power plant operations though (it will be a great hedge on their gas once it's up and running).

A couple of his recent tweets:

Update: Joy Mazeppa is in the Sept 2023 Cluster 1 study. In order to move into phase 3 participants require a GUOC payment. The deadline for this payment was moved from July to the end of November, essentially delaying all projects in the cluster 1 study by about 5 months.

JOY asked to accelerate the payment (move to phase 3 earlier). We were told it would not help. If Mazeppa moves to phase 3 in Dec it is unlikely that it will come on until late 2025. So, it takes > 4 yrs to take a functioning power plant and turn it back on. Way to go Alberta!

[ExtraSlow]

Infrastructure projects are something that Canada in general is bad at. We don't have a functional system for it. Without commenting on the specifics of the Journey Energy project, it does not surprise me that the private sectors expectation of a relatively small and simple proejct approval timeline is not being met. This inefficiency is most obvious in massive projects like Trans Mountain Expansion, and the Calgary Green line, but the effect is insidious and detrimental and a massive drain on productivity for all sectors.