"Nobody wants a government-funded pipeline!"
Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

"Nobody wants a government-funded pipeline!"

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 3, 20265 min
  • Politics
  • About Canada

Real Talkers Squatch, FoxFacedAB, AlbertaFirst, and Kevin V have hot takes on the Pacific Link pipeline. GoodMama calls Jespo to the carpet re: Poilievre's AI dance video, and Carmen rewrites Danielle Smith's emotional address from a teacher's perspective. It's The Flamethrower presented by the DQs of Northwest Edmonton and Sherwood Park! WHEN YOU SWING BY A DQ IN PALISADES, NAMAO, NEWCASTLE, WESTMOUNT, OR BASELINE ROAD, BE SURE TO LET 'EM KNOW REAL TALK SENT YOU! FOLLOW US ON TIKTOK, X, INSTAGRAM, and LINKEDIN: @realtalkrj & @ryanjespersen JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: @ryanjespersen REAL...

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Proudly presented by our friends at the DQs of Northwest Edmonton and Sherwood Park, it's the Flamethrower! We lead things off with Squatch545, who says the Pacific Link pipeline is not a project of national interest,

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it is a project of corporate and UCP interest. Next week, Disaster Danny will be wanting yet another pipeline. The whole world is electrifying. By the time this latest pipeline boondoggle gets built

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demand for Alberta, heavy, sour, crude will have dropped even further. That from Squatch. What about this one from Fox-faced Alberta, says nobody in Alberta wants a government-funded pipeline.

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