A forensic reading of Alberta’s complete book — the debts, the buried liabilities, and the workers a province says it can no longer house — and the one word every honest page ends on
Thanks for laying this out on a map. Part of this political game has been/is to never reveal the whole picture at once. Many moving parts are also distracting. Looking forward to your next piece on where this lands over time. The inheritance ...
Using the language of the vertical dispatch, with respect:
As you note elsewhere, costs on the vertical cannot be counted. They are profound. Costs related to beauty, truth, and all that is good. I have spent much time in the beauty of Alberta: the back country of the Rockies and on the prairie, “seeing the wind” as a small child under the big sky. My heart is broken over the extent of environmental degradation the greed for oil has unleashed.
Thanks for the numbers, I will be sharing them with those who have a vote in October. 🙏
The oil and gas companies, majority foreign owned, send billions of dollars of profits to their head offices. They transfer their depleted wells to some company which immediately goes bankrupt. Why is Albertan and Canadian taxpayers (including the Alberta ones who have to pay twice) subsidizing gas and oil? I recently read that every barrel of oil that is extracted from the oil sands requires the input of a barrel of oils worth of energy. How is this rational behavior?
Thanks for laying this out on a map. Part of this political game has been/is to never reveal the whole picture at once. Many moving parts are also distracting. Looking forward to your next piece on where this lands over time. The inheritance ...
Using the language of the vertical dispatch, with respect:
As you note elsewhere, costs on the vertical cannot be counted. They are profound. Costs related to beauty, truth, and all that is good. I have spent much time in the beauty of Alberta: the back country of the Rockies and on the prairie, “seeing the wind” as a small child under the big sky. My heart is broken over the extent of environmental degradation the greed for oil has unleashed.
Thanks for the numbers, I will be sharing them with those who have a vote in October. 🙏
The oil and gas companies, majority foreign owned, send billions of dollars of profits to their head offices. They transfer their depleted wells to some company which immediately goes bankrupt. Why is Albertan and Canadian taxpayers (including the Alberta ones who have to pay twice) subsidizing gas and oil? I recently read that every barrel of oil that is extracted from the oil sands requires the input of a barrel of oils worth of energy. How is this rational behavior?