I don't see how pipelines, if built, are anything but kicking the can down the road.
Alberta was actually diversifying decently at the tail end of the 90s and all of it got undone by the escalation of costs caused by another oil boom.
It seems lazy and unimaginative to think the solution to our economic problems is just to find a way to make another oil boom happen.
Alberta is producing 40% of Canada's GHG emissions and we are seeing the economics of renewables become more and more attractive.
We know oil is not going to be the long term solution. What if all the pipeline effort and money had been put toward sound steps toward diversification? Where would we be today?
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