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Originally Posted by Torture
How many years was Stephen Harper in power and how many pipelines / LNG terminals did he get built or is it just Liberal Federal Governments we don't like?
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Why do people bring this up as if it's some sort of silver bullet that because the Conservatives didn't do it, it absolves the Liberals of any blame.
But to actually answer your question, I'll share exactly what I stated in a different post - that yes, the Liberal government shares much of the blame for this (I won't be so pompous as to say that the blame falls squarely on the Liberals, there's many factors at play)
Liberals have been in power since 2015. Shale gas started being a thing in the US around 2007, and Canada's most prominent shale gas resources (Montney/Duvernay) are a bit more difficult to extract than the US stuff, and a lot more difficult to get to market, given the geographic proximity to existing infrastructure. The large fracs required for adequate exploitation of these resources didn't really start being a thing until 2016/2017 (after the Liberals were in power). It took time for technology to catch up to how best to develop the resource.
So to answer your question, a lot of these projects did try and get off the ground in the early 2010s under a conservative government, but the well results weren't quite good enough to support the billions of dollars of investment needed. That's changed over the last 5-6 years, but the current policies of the Federal government have made it too difficult and onerous to get a terminal built in a reasonable amount of time.