Premier Kenney..friend or foe of Alberta ?I usually judge leaders by performance, not what colour of tie they wear...red, blue, orange or green
Previous Premier of AB bought some rail cars to get oil to market.
before he was even elected, Kenney called the CEO's of CN & CP to warn them he would cancel the contract.
Zero respect for the Office of Premier and he did cancel the contract (unsure what penalties that involved, Premier Ford got involved in Ontario Hydro and that cost $100,000,000 in break frees) once elected .
Reading between the lines of a recent Husky NR found here https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/husky-energy-reports-third-quarter-112911122.html Husky got a $233,000,000 gain from a Kenney tax cut but now is laying off employees because company doesn't plan to invest as much in Alberta is because of the continuation by the United Conservatives of the NDP program to curtail oil production.
"We would love to spend more money in Alberta but, unfortunately, in Alberta ... there are quotas in place that mean we could spend to develop crude oil but then they wouldn't let us sell it. So that doesn't make any sense, either," he said.
So the 125,000 BPD that the cancelled railcars aren't hauling, thanks to Kenney contract concellation, results in layoffs.
But over in Sask.
Husky is continuing to invest in Saskatchewan, however, Peabody said, noting it recently started up a 10,000-barrel-a-day thermal heavy oil project and has five other similar projects in development. let's blame that on Ottawa, not provincial policies
JMHO