Rex Murphy: With Buffett’s exit, those behind the real energy blockade can claim success

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The rail blockades were but the freshest link in a long-forged chain intended to strangle Canada’s oil and gas industry

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What is the lifespan of a political promise? Somewhere between that of a mayfly and the length of a fog-free interval in Placentia Bay . A political promise is extremely fragile and highly unstable, however buttressed by invocations of the highest integrity and truth in the moment it is being made. Within the flit of that mayfly’s evanescent wings, it is discarded and gone, as the politician’s whim directs him.

The biggest joke of a political promise is one that extends, and extends far beyond, the life of the government making it.

The blockades fitted perfectly into a pattern of a decade or more, established by the feverish opposition on so many fronts to Canada’s energy industry. They were but the freshest link in a long-forged chain. That’s the real blockade, the one that has successfully landlocked Alberta’s oil and gas, the blockade of propaganda and protest that has shut down or warned off project after project and seen investment driven away, companies shutting down, jobs evaporated, and set up high tensions within our Confederation. By some estimates as much as $150 billion has been shelved or driven off.

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What trash is this on the day oil and gas collapse along side the whole stock market? Buffet just saved himself Billions in losses and PostmediaNews is trying to take this swipe?

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