Oil Sands Expansion Hasn’t Brought Alberta the Prosperity Its Leaders Promised

Oil Sands Expansion Hasn’t Brought Alberta the Prosperity Its Leaders Promised

Does production equal prosperity? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been throwing around some very optimistic what-if numbers in her relentless lobbying efforts to build ever-more oil pipelines. “If we had the Energy East, if we had Keystone XL, if we had Northern Gateway, we would be producing two and half million barrels a day more than we are today,” said Smith on July 15. “That would be generating somewhere in the order of — oh, I don’t kno…