This Day In Snookland...Who's Killing All Our Sparkle Ponies?

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Well...

It would appear it might be common sense that's doing the mercy offing.

From the top and bottom of Don Cayo's CCPA-assisted latest:

A new study on what B.C.‘s LNG revenues could add up to reinforces what many thinking citizens have already surmised — that the provincial government’s optimistic projections are far from a sure thing, and maybe just pie in the sky.

The predicted royalties and LNG tax revenues — enough over 30 years to wipe out the province’s debt and fund a $100-billion prosperity fund — aren’t impossible, says Marc Lee, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ B.C. office. But they will materialize only under optimum conditions, and such a cheery scenario isn’t at all likely...

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...Companies — including Shell Canada and its Asian partners who announced on Tuesday another cautious step toward their goal of developing LNG export facilities in Kitimat — are still “looking long and hard at whether their investments will deliver appropriate returns,” Lee wrote. “The B.C. government needs to do the same.”

In other words, stop counting 100 billion chickens before they hatch.

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Only a hundred billion?

In chicken feathers?

Gosh.

I seem to remember that, back when they were first conjured up by the then publicly-funded directer of over....errrrr...outreach, the magic of the sparkle ponies was going to be worth at least a trillion.

Yes.

That's right.

A trillion.

And did anybody in the pre-election Lotuslandian proMedia call out the Snooklandians on their codswallop?

Of course not.


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Of course, the real kick in the head here is the fact that there are real sparkle ponies available, right here and right now, that could be used to pay for crazy stuff like, say, youth centers that help keep wayward kids from becoming hardened criminals...The only problem is that the Snooklandians are giving all that real magical revenue away for free....And what do you hear from the local proMedia on that one?....


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