Key differences between a smart premier like John Horgan in British Columbia compared to an idiotic one like Jason Kenney in Alberta.

The news out of the U.S. courts didn’t shake Kenney’s public confidence in the project as he continued to tout the benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline.

“It immediately creates thousands of jobs,” he said during a news conference on Wednesday.

Wagering huge sums of public money to expand the oilsands at a moment when the business case for oil could be entering terminal decline “is an absolutely idiotic waste of capital.

Meanwhile in BC, the Horgan government introduced Bill 17, the Clean Energy Amendment Act.

The amendment will allow BC Hydro, through its trading arm, Powerex, to buy clean power from U.S. states that have greened their grids. It will exclude Alberta from the power trade, however, because Alberta still gets much of its power from coal or natural gas.

“This means BC Hydro will import power from U.S. states like Washington and California and will no longer buy power from B.C. based Independent Power Producers (IPP),” Clean Energy BC states in a press release.

Source: Cloudy outlook for pipelines gets even murkier amid court rulings, U.S. election | CBC News