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Originally Posted by Makarov
I don't think you've demonstrated that at all. It's entirely plausible that the Alberta government is attempting to protect Albertans from the PPA buyers.
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It more feels like the NDP government protecting themselves from taking another credibility hit.
No matter which way they did things, its Albertan's that are taking the hit on this, so they've done a piss poor job of protecting us with their policies.
They've actually chosen the path of greatest damage in terms of protecting Albertans.
They've now put Albertan's basically on the hook for a $2 billion dollar mistake on their part.
As its been discussed recently here and in the papers, they had the third option of letting these PPA's go back into the pool to be managed there and resold or renegotiated, but at least the hit would have been less then $2 billion dollars.
Now they've poisoned that well, and on top of it with this lawsuit, they've reduced the credibility of this government in terms of attracting outside investment to build their alternative energy sources.
This is all about the NDP making a major screwup, plowing ahead with a bad Carbon Levy plan that gave no alternatives to these companies except to accept that the NDP was going to massively tax them for as long as they wanted to and not realizing that these companies are actually smart and used a clause that was put in during negotiations that was on record.
This isn't about the NDP protecting us, this is about the NDP screwing up and then floundering about to cover up how stupid they were.