12 Things Alberta Can Do To Punish British Columbia For Blocking the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Many people, and politicians (which are also people 🙂 ) have suggested that Alberta cut off the oil supply to British Colombia in an effort to punish the BC Premier, John Horgan. While that is one possibility, there are other things that can be done.
Some options are reasonable, some are draconian and some of them are just not possible.
Here are most of the options available to Alberta:
- Block BC Workers – This is possible but not likely:
- it would be very disruptive to business as the two provinces have a largely integrated work force
- it would annoy BC workers, many of which are in the oil sector, and they are some of Alberta’s biggest boosters in BC so it would be counterproductive to send them home
.
Not Buy Electricity From BC – This is doable and in fact has already started- Alberta walked away from talks to buy BC hydro power from the massive new “Site C” hydro project on February 1, 2018 when the Trans Mountain spat began
- this is a half billion dollar annual sale that BC is playing with
. (more…)
