So I decided today, that I've lost my effing mind.
I'm voting green. Hoping that she actually does shut down all oil and gas production.
Seriously. If it's not crackpot May it should be the Alberta government. It would create a whole new 1970s like energy crisis.
Everyone but PC's are talking eliminating the industry within 25yrs. I think we should pre-empt that and create a geopolitical crisis on the basis of "climate change"
All the taps, Alberta supplies its own internal needs only. No exports. Not a drop. Natives can do what they want with the oil on their turf, they're a nation within a nation - let them choose to sell it or not.
Great Depression 2.0, dustbowl economics. Bennet buggies. Really it would devastate Canada's economy, I think most of us in Alberta know that.
The USA would throw fits. We are their energy independence. 70% of the Canadian CNG availability gone, 4.1bcf taken from the US heating market. 4th largest oil producer withdraws.
Imagine the heating costs in Ontario and Quebec. Think you'd be even able to get gas outside Alberta? OPEC, Russia, Venezuela would love us!
Oh and think - if they can't get oil/gas for heating, you can still buy coal... A lot of those old 1800s homes in Ontario and Quebec still have coal chutes... Imagine the smog!
Trudeau starts talking PetroCanada2.0. Environmental and resources being provincial jurisdiction - opens up constitutional litigation, constitutional debates and reforms.
Alberta takes the Hardline approach - give us voting equality, renegotiate transfer payments (including hydroquebec revenues), or the resources stay in the ground as an environmental policy. Climate change is serious business they keep telling us, and we're just doing our part.
I really don't see what we have to loose anymore. The ROC sees Alberta as the "embarassing cousin" (per notley) and devalues our role in the confederation...
They're all about telling us we're dinosaurs, and the world doesn't need our oil...
Blow up the system, hit the reset button and let's see what happens...