Lets see, they HAD a massive solar plant already near Medicine Hat; that was closed down by the UCP. Then they spent a ton of taxpayer money reopening already closed coal plants instead, to prop up a dying industry. Then because the grid is neglected, they had to buy power from BC when it couldn’t keep up; but conservative brainwashing had them blaming Ottawa for that somehow too? AB is windy AF, could expand wind generation massively. AB has more annual solar potential than all of Germany, who successfully generates a much larger proportion of solar energy than AB. Solar price per kw has been falling massively despite best efforts of the oil lobby. Everyone has been screaming for a Canadian battery manufacturing industry, EV manufacturing, expand on Edison hybrid heavy truck manufacturing, locally made solar panels with a (more) ethical supply chain, rare earth mineral mining in a (more) ethical manner, high speed rail manufacturing industry that could be most easily and profitably implemented between Calgary and Edmonton and then exported to lots other Canadian cities? Lots of opportunities, but the oil lobby must be protected at all costs. And the sheep in AB are too busy drinking it up thinking Ottawa is keeping them down while its very clearly the UCP extracting as much wealth as possible for the elite lobbyists.

Oilfield jobs are being automated away at a record pace regardless. They don’t give a fuck about you. Corporate taxes have been slashed on massive (oil) companies with US ownership operating in AB, extracting more wealth from the Canadian people while shipping ever increasing profits to a hostile nation. While AB citizens’ property taxes are left climbing repeatedly to take up the slack! Pretty sure multiple of those same companies later pulled out of AB regardless. Where’s the increased local refining capabilities??? Why tf must we prioritize shipping crude and buying back finished gas et al at an exhorbitant markup?? Taxpayer money is relied on to cleanup (more realistically to continue to leave them poisoning everything) a ridiculous amount of abandoned oilwells because they refuse to require cleanup costs upfront before these companies sell off aging wells to another failing company, so they can conveniently declare bankruptcy and leave the bill to the taxpayers.

SAD

Edit: fuck the real estate industry. Housing is not an investment its a human right. The real estate industry DOES need massive investment but not necessarily where its going in BC. What it needs is more ethical builders who are maybe OK making 500k this year as the owner instead of 1 mil, lead by example and use their reach to build small affordable housing for their fellow human beings, not market value mcmansions to extract as much value as possible.

Edit2: more ideas for real estate jobs that would actually help people: more affordable manufactured home builders, this would also help replace demand for the heavy trucking industry lost from declining oil jobs as these houses need to be hauled. There’s demand all over the prairies and plenty of wide load routes. ICF manufacturing. Start a heat pump manufacturing company in Canada they are shit simple and way overpriced.