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Old 03-10-2023, 09:55 AM   #7428
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Originally Posted by iggy_oi View Post
“Bet”
The province has always been pretty terrible at making bets.

So, in a sense, the Sturgeon Refinery contract is a multibillion-dollar bet against pipelines getting built. It's worth noting that by investing in the Keystone XL pipeline, the Alberta government also has a multibillion-dollar direct bet on that pipeline getting built, so we're now guaranteed to lose billions on at least one major government industrial policy bet. Fantastic.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...nwrp-1.5718044
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