Why would Canada allow this, given the current state of affairs, and their move to less dependence on the usa?
A. it’s Alberta. A province whose Premier so desperately wants to be part of the US so this shouldn’t be that surprising and B. Our government wants to invest 1.5bil into AI, so again, this tracks. We STILL have a housing crisis but no…lets not use those billions to build affordable housing lets use them to fund AI Slop that doesn’t work.
Other war around, this increases US dependence on Canada.
How does this increase dependence?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want it. It shouldn’t be allowed. I don’t know all the details but im sure they got some absolutely darling tax break to get them to build it here.
But this isn’t like selling out potashcorp. Or a telecom. Global fertilizer disruption, china gets preferential access over Canadians. Telecoms want to fleece Canadians (even harder) and funnel the money out of country? Those would be examples of where foreign ownership can create a problem.
But what is the product here? AI? What if they give preferential access to the AI to the US if there is a shortage? What if they charge Canadians unfairly for it? Who fucking cares nobody wants it.
We aren’t selling control over a resource or service that Canadians were otherwise dependent on. I don’t want them for the same reason nobody else wants them. But as a vector for foreign control? I don’t think that specifically is at play here.
The project will require approximately 150 million cubic feet per day of natural gas,
Fuck everything about this.
Pembina Pipeline, which announced last week it will go ahead with its Greenlight Electricity Centre, a new natural gas-fired power-generation facility
Burns NG? Lol call it Green(light).
Maybe this will finally turn the Albertans against the US.
