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Originally Posted by Tinordi
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.
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You're missing the most shocking part of the article for me:
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Notley was only informed about the deal in the days leading to the climate change announcement.
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It sounds like the big 4 got together with the NGOs a year ago and started hammering out a deal to cap emmissions in return for stopping the pipeline opposition. It does not sound like the Provincial government was at that table.