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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Call it whatever you want Tinordi. Not consulting other major players in the industry creates animosity and distrust, which may lead to investment decisions by those not included at the table that do not benefit Alberta.
It is disingenuous at best when CNRL, Suncor, Cenovus, and Shell come out in support of the new legislation, since they were the only ones at the negotiating table! (Of course they support it!)
What about Exxon, Cnooc, Harvest, COSL, Encana, Husky, etc. etc. Do they not also deserve a voice at the table given the billions of dollars they've invested in the province?
This just reeks of high school cliquey politics, and is an embarrassment.
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It doesn't 'reek' of anything.
The Provincial Government wanted to implement new GHG regulations and they wanted a show among industry and NGOs that they supported these regulations. It brought them to the table and asked, what would you accept to publicly support this policy? The province then squared that with the climate change panel they put together. Et voila! Policy is made.
Had the province brought CAPP in they would have likely heard that CAPP didn't want these GHG regulations.
So what do you do? Do you not enact GHG policy because Imperial and EOG didn't want to enact GHG policy? Or do you narrow the circle among parties that wanted to see action and come up with something they could all support?
This is hardly a scandal or high-school clique politics. It's policy making at its most fundamental level. Tough decisions needed to be made after 15 years of tough decisions being avoided.