Cat@ponder.cat to CanadaEnglish · edit-223 hours agoCanada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline.www.desmog.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkCanada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline.www.desmog.comCat@ponder.cat to CanadaEnglish · edit-223 hours agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarepsvrhlinkfedilinkarrow-up56arrow-down1·22 hours agoSo we have money for this, but can’t build public housing. Right. If oil is so profitable, let the oil companies foot the bill themselves.
minus-squarekat_angstrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down1·22 hours agoExactly this. All that “free market” talk always seems full of promise and idealism and then the government OKs subsidies like this and it’s just naked corporatism through and through.
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agoThe feds bought the pipeline in 2018. There is no private ownership.
minus-squarekat_angstrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·17 hours agoAn important distinction. “Loan” feels like the wrong headline word to go with them; perhaps “budget” would be more accurate
So we have money for this, but can’t build public housing. Right.
If oil is so profitable, let the oil companies foot the bill themselves.
Exactly this. All that “free market” talk always seems full of promise and idealism and then the government OKs subsidies like this and it’s just naked corporatism through and through.
The feds bought the pipeline in 2018. There is no private ownership.
An important distinction. “Loan” feels like the wrong headline word to go with them; perhaps “budget” would be more accurate
.