Ravman, I have no idea why ya keep posting these silly NDP press releases onto this forum.
For example:
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Gentner noted that commuters wanting to avoid tolls on the Port Mann, Golden Ears, and Pattullo bridges will have to travel through North Delta to the Alex Fraser, which would place a significant strain on the community.
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Delta North MLA Guy Gentner has no idea what he's talking about. For decades North Delta residents have complained about the truck traffic running through their neighbourhoods along River Road. Once the SFPR is built, it will skirt the Fraser River running along industrial areas taking truck traffic
away from North Delta neighbourhoods!
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well that $460ish million dollar bribe can help. ending subsidies to the big polluters like the oil and gas sector... etc...
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It seems that ya don't understand what ya are talking about.
There are no "subsidies" just "incentives" for natural gas exploration:
1. Summer drilling;
2. Deep drilling;
3. Marginal recovery and low production wells, which would otherwise be shut-down;
The three programs discussed above, plus some smaller ones, have generated
$900 million in
additional natural gas royalties for the province.
That's
net of the value of the credits, which tallied at about $250 million.
It's called economics 101. And who brought in those incentives??? None other than former NDP premier Dan Miller during the late 1990's.
And that's why BC's crown rights land sales are double that of Alberta this calendar year, due to its royalty regime for "unconventional" drilling, irrespective of energy prices.
And you are saying that the NDP is now gonna get rid of 'em so BC will potentially forego billions in additional revenue well into the future for infrastructure projects like the Pattullo Bridge???
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it can be done and it will be done by Carole!
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Now I understand why political pundit Alex Tsakumis (who's no friend of the government) wrote this a couple of days ago:
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For over a year now, I have been telling anyone within earshot that if Carole James is elected premier in 2009, we'll be in deep trouble. Her leadership qualities are more suited to running a lemonade stand - on a good day. Almost every issue the Opposition has touched since 2005 has been splendidly mishandled.
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Ooopps, thread drift.
Back to the Pattullo Bridge.