Has anyone here given any thought to the repercussions arising from the elections in Alberta?

Change Manitoba to Alberta. Sorry for the mistake.

The conspiracy theorists and Obama haters will accuse the president of influencing the provincial elections in Alberta as a way to deny keystone. You watch..

Our coverage of Canadian politics sucks. What happened Stan? And why does it affect the Keystone pipeline?

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/6/8560741/alberta-elections-oil-sands

Higher welfare and minimum wage. Higher business and corporate taxes. Profit sharing with oil sands.

@stanleybmanly Thanks, wow, that is potentially a huge change in things. Now I’ll have to follow things up North.

It seems to raise more questions than answers. I doubt Obama would have ever approved Keystone anyway so not much change for us near term. Once Obama is gone, we may be able to supplement Canadian oil with our own from Fracking. It all depends on who gets the White House. Oil Prices have been sneaking back up and it will take a while before we know where they will stop and how much damage they will do to the economy. Sounds like Canada will have their own problems with the economy depending on how extreme they want to be.

That outlines how Canada is treated like barren tundra down here in the states. Not a word in our press.

With any luck, a rallying of voters for the federal NDP party that removes the antichrist Steven Harper from power.

Yes, the death of Keystone, but more importantly, better regulation and less subsidizing of our ridiculously dirty oil industry as a whole. And lots more stuff Americans probably don’t care about.

The BBC has a good article about the recent Alberta election.

The Keystone XL is (unfortunately) all but irrelevant now since the same companies have built or leased their way around the last bit of pipeline they did not get to build.

On the other hand a progressive leadership in their government may change the situation dramatically for the ‘energy’ companies since they are more likely to be held to environmental regulations than they have been under the previous government. This is likely to be beneficial to everyone except those directly involved in the land-rape of tar-sands bitumen ‘recovery’.