• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    Here’s a question: why doesn’t Alberta invest in a refinery or two? Instead of extracting oil and selling it internationally, they could extract it, refine it, and sell it in-country.

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      Or literally anything else. Moron leadership for decades squandering an inherently finite resource rather than reinvesting the revenue and helping the province prosper indefinitely

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      For the exact same reason a pipeline will never be built… O&G is on the decline so these 5-10 year projects simply won’t make enough money to justify it.

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        That’s what people said before the last pipeline was built through BC. The federal government bailed it out and it got built anyway.