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If you were going to set out a comprehensive strategy to suppress global investment and energy market interest in Alberta's oil and gas products, this would be your plan. #ableg
1. Weaken pipeline review processes to make the resulting approvals vulnerable to environmental and Indigenous opposition and judicial reversal. edmontonjournal.com/business/energ…
2.a. Overhaul existing GHG standards that are affair across sectors, to implement regulations that give massive emissions subsidies to the most polluting facilities, ... cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
2.b. ... creating perverse long-term incentives against emissions-reducing innovations and investment decisions in our sector. I.e.: worsen the climate performance of the industry going forward. calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…
2.c. In other words, you change provincial regulations to privilege the worst deposits and performers that the world is increasingly looking to turn away from, while punishing the lower-emitting facilities that the world is looking to invest in and buy from.
3. Launch a witch hunt against domestic environmental organizations that have a pragmatic track record of working with forward-thinking actors in your energy industry.

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4. Launch a “war room” to implement (with public resources) your adversarial stance against international environmental voices who have the ear of major international financial markets.
macleans.ca/news/canada/wh…
5.a. Now for the final offensive. The “Kudahgrass”, so to speak.
5.b. When a remarkably genuine 16-year-old girl captures the world’s hearts and minds through a global youth movement, thumb your nose at them all and visibly conscript the oil and gas industry into your adversarial posture.
5.c. Then — when that same girl announces plans to visit your province — demand she immediately visit repressive dictatorships, making clear the plane of comparison you place the industry on.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
5.d. And finally — when she does visit our seat of government with over 10,000 people — shutter the building, head out to a coal plant and mock them for using electricity. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
Sound familiar? #ableg
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