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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I detest that the bolded is a semi-popular opinion among millennial Albertans. We're sitting on one of the world's largest deposits of energy (Oil, natural gas, etc.), directly bordering the world's biggest consumer of energy, and within reasonably short shipping distance from the other large consumers of energy and yet we're so f'ing stupid that we refuse to move heaven and Earth to fully realize the potential of the world's luckiest endowment of natural resource riches. Then people lazily dismiss this stupidity and rationalize it away and suggest that our economy should look past our built-in competitive advantage and lead the charge into areas in which the entire world can compete with us on almost equal footing.
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How many coal rich regions thought the same way a few decades ago, only to be destitute by not being able to shift their economies when coal died? Oil is a dying industry, pipelines are nothing but a bandaid solution at this point. The biggest problem facing Alberta right now is having a government that refuses to believe that and has wasted billions of dollars on a sinking ship