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GREEN: Smith’s deal with Ottawa could close curtain on private-sector investment in Alberta oil

Premier Smith suggests the new pipeline would “create tens of thousands of jobs” and “generate tens of billions in new provincial and federal revenues.” Yet private-sector investors largely took a pass.

With Trump’s trade war raging, you can be forgiven if major developments in other areas of policy have faded from memory. But in the last 10 months or so, we’ve seen many interesting developments in the saga of Alberta’s oilsands.

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