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Originally Posted by Coach
To play both sides a bit, as I'm definitely not down with AB going solo like that, we can't really use it because we spent 20 years shooting ourselves in the foot not building infrastructure to get it to other customers. The 1st Trump presidency should have been a solid warning that the US is not a reliable sole customer. Nor should they be.
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This was Alberta's own doing, really.
Fought against pipelines to the East 'because NEP bad' and didn't want to lose a more lucrative customer.
Then NAFTA came along which saw Alberta celebrate a guarantee of delivery to the US which precluded any push to get export capacity anywhere else for well over a decade. By the time Energy East rolled around as an idea, nobody out East wanted a pipeline anymore.
Alberta's resource policy has always been about selling stuff to the US, it was the Rest of Canada that once tried to change that, but Alberta was having none of it.