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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
So you're saying that the only time we could have possibly built a pipeline to get our oil off train tracks was in the first two years of the Notley administration?
Man, sucks that we missed that two year sweet spot.
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Ironically there was a bit of a sweet spot. When Harper and the PCs got voted out in 2015 there were three domestic Canadian pipelines to tidewater that were close to being finalized. We've since seen two of those killed and one on life support. Would they have been built with the PCs and Harper in? More likely with Harper sure, less likely on the provincial level due to less influence and I think most people would acknowledge that. It's dumb though to say "Harper couldn't get pipelines built in 10 years" or "the PCs couldn't get pipelines built in 40 years" because
A: Pipelines were built under them, just not major coastal projects and
B: There isn't a static market for building pipelines, you have to have the market conditions, regulatory environment, and private corporation money willing to take the risk.
So the length of time someone was in power is irrelevant it depends on if there were projects on the table and both of those governments were voted out before they could see them to the end. Ironically it was probably the worst possible time in the last 60 years for the Province and Country to sinilatanelualy elect governments with radical environmental bents as three vital infrastructure projects are toast and no one will be proposing new ones anytime soon.