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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
Selling off Alberta's generating capacity to the retailers who deliver it to end users was a generational F-up by the conservatives. IIRC the government collected around a billion dollars for it, and created a duopoly where Enmax and Epcor were given a license to print money through the outright GOUGING of Albertans that still happens to this day. It's gross.
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The Government of Alberta has never owned significant amounts of electricity generation; they have always been owned by private companies like TransAlta, ATCO or municipal controlled companies like EPCOR and Enmax.
What Alberta did in 1990s and early 2000s was deregulation, not privatization.