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Originally Posted by V
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I don’t really understand what you’re saying here. Are you taking issue with my statement that she’s anti-oil? Or that she’s trying to sewer the industry?
Fortunately you’re right, in a way. She can’t do whatever she wants. She tried that earlier in the term, but kept getting slapped down with court challenges. So now she’s trying the more indirect route by appointing her demonstrated anti-oil friends to important positions with the regulator. And while she’s doing that damage, she’s taking the even more indirect route of doing nothing to actually help anything, and in fact downplays the importance of pipeline projects.
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If you think that appointment makes a hill of beans difference in how the AER operates, than i think you are badly overestimating what one term of patronage can do against 4 decades of the same by the Tories.