While Dion wants to take the carrot and stick approach, demanding that the companies in the oil sands produce "zero emissions" or water use reduction plans if they want to keep their Accelerated Capital Cost Program, Harper is content to see them wallow in their own filth on the grounds that they somehow epitomize Alberta:
You know it's easy for some of the other parties, for Mr. Dion or the NDP and the Bloc, who don't represent Albertans and westerners, to say Albertans should pay all the taxes in the country, but I think we have to be a little fairer than that.
Of course, not all Albertans are comfortable with identifying the interests of the oil-patch so closely with the interests of the Province as a whole. Peter Lougheed, for one, has often complained that Alberta tax-payers are essentially paying Corporate Welfare to the oil and gas sector:
"I keep trying to see who the beneficiaries are," Lougheed wrote in Policy Options magazine this fall.
"Not the people in Red Deer, because everything they have got is costing more. It is not the people in the province, because they are not getting the royalty return they should be getting, with $75 oil."
And I imagine there must be a few "Westerners" out there who, contra Harper, do not view their own province as being a mere adjunct to Alberta, and who therefore do not see their own interests being determined by the interests of that province.
spoken like a true Ontario based Torrana lovin weenie.
ReplyDeleteShut down your own filthy coal plants and dispose of your nuclear waste before you go poking somebody else in the eye.
Or freeze in the dark . . . . your choice
Alberta doesn't even have a cock.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get Albertans wishing death on everyone all the time. What is up with that?
ReplyDeleteThank gawd Albertan's saw this coming and booted Liberal lover Dinning out!
ReplyDeleteFunny, Ontario Power is the number 1 GHG emitter in Canada.In fact the top 5 worst GHG emitters are power generation plants across Canada.
Alberta oil sands stand at 6th.
And what do tell is Dion's 'plan' for the worst 5 ??
Get a real job, wilson61. The position of ProgBlog Alpha-Troll can't be paying you very much, can it?
ReplyDeleteOf course, Wilson 61, all that carbon is being emitted in the process of heating and powering a population about six times that of Alberta.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to carbon emissions Alta. "punches above its weight".
bigcitylib said...
ReplyDeleteOf course, Wilson 61, all that carbon is being emitted in the process of heating and powering a population about six times that of Alberta."
still stuck on stupid eh ??
so you think all the oil in Alberta is consumed there ??
tax the crap out of all the Alberta energy sent to Ontario.
Let you eastern bastards freeze, park or pay.
"about six times that of Alberta. "
ReplyDeletedid you enjoy flunking grade five ?
How many times did you fail ??
if Ontario had a population of about 21 million then you make your dumnb-dumb claim.
But since Ontario has a pop of about 12.7 million and Alberta is closing in on 4 million, three times would be accurate.
More like about four times, but your point is noted.
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