[Mr.Coffee]

I think the quality of life impacts from TMX will be felt in 5-10 years once our government debt balloons to a point where our annual budget has significant interest payments as a line item. Services are going to have to be cut.

I don’t necessarily feel alienated anymore than we always have been but I do hold resentment towards BC specifically. This was a project that was federally endorsed and widely broadcast as in the best interest of the nation and has been polled as being supported by the majority of the Canadians and even British Columbians and yet we still can’t get constructed started? It makes no sense. We need to have stronger bolder leadership that is willing to take action. Enough pandering and talking, what BC has done is unconstitutional and I’m not sure if Alberta did something like BC is doing that it would be tolerated? So what we have here is a breakdown of democracy and a symbol of how our system doesn’t work as a country. The fact that nothing has really been done about it is what is so disgusting. And yeah that’s sort of an unfair statement since they bought the pipeline but that was May...... like this should be something where we are hearing developments about what they’re trying to do everyday and instead it’s crickets and more consultation which we know won’t solve anything.

I’ve posted ad nausem on this topic. Alberta can do more and so can the Feds. They can market to the ignorant masses better with better information they can withhold funding to BC, they can kick up other pipeline projects. There’s lots of things they can do but right now they’re more interested in the power and politics not supporting Canadians on a project that is in the national interest and has national support.

It’s pretty frustrating. Why doesn’t Alberta go really really strong into supporting and propping up transitional energy industry research, businesses or ideas? Alberta should continue to be an energy leading province and that includes other sectors of the energy industry aside from oil and gas. You can put a pile of subsidies or money into these industries, and I’m not sure why that isn’t being done. Solar, wind, hydro, etc. Is there no more efficiencies or cheaper ways to make all these technologies? Is there no more to be done in battery technology or geothermal or whatever?

Anyway focusing our efforts on transitional industries we can rally around economically is probably a better plan than trying to separate and achieve essentially nothing.