Recent content by Altair

Oh, 100 percent. It's why privatization doesn't always work and why Crown Corps still serve a very important function. Crown corps can tolerate risk, as the government will always backstop them. Private industry...no. This may be outside the perview of this thread, but in the grand scale of...

Canadian industry prefers small profitable fiefdoms to international market share. Always has been, always will be.

Oh, 100 percent. Not too bad for a "anti oil" government of the past 11 years.

There is nothing wrong with Alberta ponying up their own money. In fact, considering Canada funded the last pipeline, I think it's high time Alberta pick up the bill this time. I just think that it's delusional that Alberta thinks private industry will step up to the plate.

Canadian oil and gas companies are having record profits, Canadian oil and gas production are at record highs, but the narrative that somehow Canada is "anti oil" continues to persist. It's frankly the best gaslighting job in the history of Canada. Any and all enviormental regulation that cuts...

I hope to be proved otherwise, but I think the fact transmountain hasn't been offloaded shows that private industry isn't interested in pipelines other than using it. Like most infrastructure in Canada, private industry is "you pay,we use"

Transmountain says hi.

Happy Canada day all

I've been saying for months that no pipeline would be built with private money, and that Alberta would be on the hook this time, because Canada bought the last one.

Doesn't really matter.

Nice of him to hand off serious negotiations to his successor.

I hate to toot my own horn :sneaky:, but it was the only way. Called it months ago.

Sounds entirely reasonable to me

https://turdef.com/article/ukraine-and-sweden-sign-deal-for-gripen-e-fighters First order of Gripen E for Ukraine. Clearing the hurdle of "Ukraine hasnt ordered any Gripens" So with Ukraine starting to order them maybe getting in on the 150 order is a consideration