Eastern prosperity
- Thread starter atlanticaparty
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Absolutely. It will, however, take a lot of work. The way to prosperity is to use the resources you have available, whether these resources are natural resource, people, geographic location, whatever.
For example, the proposal to build a new refinery in Saint John. As people in Ontario discovered this week, refining capacity is extremely constrained right now. Instead of relying on someone else to build the new capacity, it would make sense for us to capitalize on our existing facilities. This will help increase the prosperity of our region.
Lots of people are whining about greenhouse gases, but consider this: a new refinery will be built with current state of the art emissions controls; one way to look at a new refinery would be to understand that, by building a new refinery with state of the art controls, we would actually be helping by displacing existing, older, less efficient/more polluting facilities.
And further to that, what do you think is run better / cleaner: a refinery where the owner and management live in the same city, breathe the same air, and meet the people on the street? Or a refinery owned by a multinational where all of the executives live thousands of miles away?
You could be, but it sure won't be a walk in the park. You will have to fight all the way and never give up. The govn. will try to take the lion share but Alberta has succeeded but not without a fight. Maybe they would be a good example for you to follow.
Alberta "succeeded" by happening to sit on top of HUGE reserves of natural resources. It's nothing in particular that Alberta did, other than importing thousands of people from Atlantic Canada.
Any idiot could have made Alberta a successful economy. That's been proven.
Any idiot could have made Alberta a successful economy. That's been proven.