I mean the actual answer is that Alberta oil is dogshit, especially oil sands oil which is loaded with contaminants and difficult to extract. The oil sands are only profitable if prices are over 100 bucks a barrel which is basically never happening again. No amount of pipelines or refineries will make it 2012 again.
Spot on. Alberta has had so much time to put their economic eggs in other baskets but they just double down on oil instead. Then unironically support wexit. Albertan rig culture is fucking cringe
alberta's oil obsession is so strange. jason kenney, the premiere, has a "war room" where they tell the "truth about oil" whatever that means. for a province that tries so hard to pretend to be texas, they really go out of their way to avoid renewable resources. texas produces enough solar and wind energy that if it were a country it would produce somewhere in the top 5 for both solar and wind. but nooooo no renewables here! just go back to fuckin OILSANDS DUDE thats the future
I mean the actual answer is that Alberta oil is dogshit, especially oil sands oil which is loaded with contaminants and difficult to extract. The oil sands are only profitable if prices are over 100 bucks a barrel which is basically never happening again. No amount of pipelines or refineries will make it 2012 again.
Spot on. Alberta has had so much time to put their economic eggs in other baskets but they just double down on oil instead. Then unironically support wexit. Albertan rig culture is fucking cringe
alberta's oil obsession is so strange. jason kenney, the premiere, has a "war room" where they tell the "truth about oil" whatever that means. for a province that tries so hard to pretend to be texas, they really go out of their way to avoid renewable resources. texas produces enough solar and wind energy that if it were a country it would produce somewhere in the top 5 for both solar and wind. but nooooo no renewables here! just go back to fuckin OILSANDS DUDE thats the future
its so fucking frustrating living here
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It's still going on, and it's also a giant grift.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canadian-energy-centre-tom-olsen-jason-kenney-war-room-1.5836928