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I build pipelines and drill for oil & gas. All tweets are performance art. Only important people follow me. I have no pronouns, please don’t refer to me.
Nov 22, 2019 52 tweets 34 min read
1/ Thread: Who is Lorne Gibson, and why did @jkenney fire him?

There's so much more to the story that no one's really talking about.

I'll start. @jkenney 2/ Lorne Gibson is Alberta's Elections Commissioner. Previously, he was Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer. He is a renowned expert in elections management and consults, teaches, researches and advises on everything related to elections.

Source: assembly.gov.nt.ca/sites/default/…
Apr 1, 2019 18 tweets 8 min read
1/Thread: The Economic Forecast no one’s talking about in #Alberta #ABVote #ableg 2/ Every year, the Canadian Energy Research Institute publishes its annual Oil Sands Supply Cost study, often with meagre fanfare and media coverage. You can find their studies here:

ceri.ca/studies
Dec 30, 2017 41 tweets 18 min read
THREAD: 1/ Alberta's Economy - How we got to now. #ableg #abgov #Alberta 2/ Forget your idealizations about Peter Lougheed. He was a great man. This story begins in the late 1990's with the Federal Liberals under Jean Chretien and his Minister of Natural Resources, Anne Mclennan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLe…