Informative!
The point abt governments listening to private sector firms is a big problem, not only in oil and gas. Not only this often produces outcomes that are incongruent with the wishes of voters, but it also produces outright incompetent ones. The more gov’ts rely on markets and market participants to govern, the more they lose the expertise to present scenarios, data that market participants don’t necessarily see, and therefore lose the ability to counteract market failures, which has historically been a central function of governments.
On the point of the ability of the left to argue on the business case for the new pipeline - Avi Lewis has been doing precisely that quite well.
This is the article the video discusses.
Sort of, I guess? It’s a pretty wide-ranging discussion.
Well it’s the jumping off point. The video description is where I got it from. I prefer to read over watch videos.
Me too, to be honest, but this channel is usually worth a watch.
