Author: Blazingcatfur

Mark Carney keeps saying he’s running a new government, not just a sequel to the Justin Trudeau years.

This week, Canadians may finally have to admit he’s right. As the door opens to a new Alberta pipeline, Carney closed the door on the Trudeau era.

No one can say they weren’t warned. In his Canada Day video, the prime minister flatly stated that his federal government needed to back off on Trudeau’s climate policy, even as he recalled teenage memories of Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa.

Wishful thinking.

CALGARY — The chief executive of Crown lender Farm Credit Canada (FCC) billed taxpayers more than $182,000 in expenses last year — nearly four times the amount claimed by her predecessor — while simultaneously urging employees to cut travel costs and “tighten the belt.”

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I have long been a cynic about the chances of a second bitumen pipeline being built from Alberta to the West Coast.

After the events and announcements of Thursday, move me up into the category of skeptic.

I don’t trust a word Carney says. He is an alien to me. Others have doubts …

Pipelines faced key challenges in the past. Can Alberta’s overcome them?

Proposals to build new Canadian pipelines have faced multiple challenges over recent years that have seen projects delayed or derailed repeatedly — and those challenges could offer clues into some of the issues developers behind the newly announced project from Alberta to B.C.’s coast will need to tackle.

From financial hurdles, including proving the project can actually make a profit, to consulting with Indigenous communities and navigating environmental regulations and fees, these projects are seldom easy to get started.