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Hicks on Biz: Trump could be good for Alberta BY GRAHAM HICKS FIRST POSTED Edmonton Sun: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Please, no more hysterics. The sky is not falling. American President-elect Donald Trump could be very good for Alberta. Did we happen to mention the Keystone XL pipeline? Alberta’s biggest challenge is not climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, but the need for new pipelines to get our stranded oil and natural gas to market. Outgoing American President Barack Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline – carrying up to 1 million barrels of dilbit (diluted bitumen) a day from the oilsands to under-utilized upgraders/heavy-oil refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Trump has promised to reverse that decision as soon as possible. Trump believes fossil fuels will continue to play a major role in providing cheap energy to America and the world. Trump will take a very different environmental stance than Obama, with an underlying assumption that environmental concerns can be met without excessive government interference and subsidy. Trump will embrace the “greening” of ...