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HitRed wrote:With Global Warming averted non-Albertan Canadians cheer for America's new president.

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HitRed wrote:With Global Warming averted non-Albertan Canadians cheer for America's new president.

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According to a number of recent reports, cancelling the presidential permit that Donald Trump signed for the project is one of the Biden administration’s first priorities. And while that’s a reflection of the work of progressive activists within the Democratic Party, it’s also a byproduct of the ongoing incompetence coming from the government of Alberta — one that’s already invested more than a billion taxpayer dollars in the project.

In May 2019, Premier Jason Kenney launched what he called a “fight back” strategy — one that took aim at the alleged enemies of his province’s oil and gas industry. But nearly two years in, and at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, all he has to show for it is a bunch of self-inflicted black eyes.

The government’s so-called “war room,” which was supposed to tell the truth about Alberta’s oil industry, has instead embarrassed itself at every available opportunity, from the stolen logo that defined its launch to an ill-advised fight it tried to pick with the New York Times.

But that may all pale in comparison to the work of its inquiry into “the foreign funding of anti-energy campaigns,” whose report (which is both over-budget and overdue) is expected soon. Last week, the inquiry released the documents that will inform its report, and it reads like the bibliography for an undergraduate student’s C- political science paper. Ironically, it even includes a report commissioned by the inquiry from Energy In Depth, a pro-oil organization that was launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America.