Alberta Politics

[northlands]

Interesting article about Smith's ties to this oil lobby group and her subsequent pitch to use taxpayer money to clean up orphaned oil wells, something oil companies are legally required to do.

Danielle Smith is Pushing The Same $20 Billion Corporate Giveaway She Pushed as a Corporate Lobbyist

Smith pushed for the $20 billion plan as a corporate lobbyist. Other lobbyists pushing the plan helped Smith’s UCP leadership campaign.

pressprogress.ca

Regardless of which side of the political fence one is on, I really don't know how anyone defends this piece of policy? Especially in times when CNRL, IOL, Suncor, Ovintiv are all making literal billions in profit per quarter...

 

[The_Cat]

Do voters ever think that $20 billion is over $4,000 for every Albertan?

 

[Edmonchuk]

No they don’t, and they don’t care. Time to realize how stupid people are in this province.

 

[The_Cat]

I also wonder about the market share of petroleum. When Alberta is announcing biodiesel and hydrogen facilities and solar and wind power projects, what will the demand for petroleum look like?

 

[archited]

Bob Dylan... "The times they are a-changin'"

 

[Gronk!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625156525772636160

 

[kcantor]

Bob Dylan... "The times they are a-changin'"

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr… “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose “ – the more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[TAS]

Sohi to have his first meeting with Smith in March since she was elected premier. There's been a couple meetings with Mayor Gondek including their council.

Sohi has been asking but no response until now.

Edmonton mayor to have first meeting with Danielle Smith, five months after premier sworn in

 

[Edmonchuk]

It’s amazing how hostile the provincial government is to its own capital city and people of different political views. I mean the result is all there, around Epcor tower.

 

[Gronk!]

Breakenridge: Two minutes for interference by the premier in arena talks

If the premier is convinced that an arena deal is in Calgary’s best interests, then she should stop interfering.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[Mountain Man]

Smith used Quebec to try and trigger her anti-Quebec base, this move is all politics by her. Leave the city and corporation to figure out their own deal, the province has no stake in this.

Even if the Province decided to spend tax dollars to clean up a corporate mess (one Domtar should be paying for, they bought the company that spilled all the creosote), shovels likely won't be in the ground for an arena for another decade at least. I'm not sure the Saddledome has that long!

 

[The_Cat]

 

[CaptainBL]

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You know how I know this is completely fake news? It says Edmonton in the top left lol. No Smith announcement benefiting anyone would be made from anywhere except the capital of Alberta, Calgary lol.

 

[Gronk!]

Kathleen Ganley: How to attract investment and create jobs in Alberta

In his recent

edmontonjournal.com

 

[kcantor]

Sooo…

The cost of cleaning up abandoned wells was estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator in 2018 to be $58,650,000,000 and that might well prove to be low. Whatever it is, it’s going to be a lot of money and one of the problems is that it’s hard to relate to that much money.

Danielle Smith’s R-Star program is now proposing that that cost - whatever it is - be borne by the taxpayers of Alberta through the forgiveness of royalty payments that would otherwise flow to the government of Alberta.

There are approximately 1,900,000 working Albertans. This amounts to every single working Albertan paying the equivalent of MORE THAN $30,000 OF THEIR HARD EARNED WAGES AS ADDITIONAL TAX DOLLARS to already profitable producing oil companies to do what they are already obligated to do!!!

No wonder the author concludes that “for the oil industry, having your lobbyist become premier could be a dream come true”.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dishing-with-dkg-what-to-do-about-the-oilpatchs-orphan-wells