When Alberta’s oil cleanup bill comes due Canada will end up paying
Alberta has a quarter trillion in liabilities and less than $20 billion to cover them
Alberta is claiming yet again that Canada doesn’t have its back. That’s why they tried to bite the hands off of the rest of Canada in the last federal election by voting en masse for a party that promised to do much, much less about climate change.
They ignored the reality that the Liberals under Trudeau had approved the pipeline immediately after gaining power, gave it significant social license in Canada and globally with the carbon tax and environmental regulation, and then bought it outright for $4.5 billion when it appeared that the owners were realizing that Alberta’s oil was going to be first off the market regardless. They ignored the reality that the Liberals under Trudeau have driven more movement on the pipeline than Harper and Kenney did in more than a decade in Ottawa. Instead, they are believing the disinformation flowing from Kenney and his new propaganda arm, the energy war room that…
