Report Back on AI Datacentre Fight in Alberta

So tell me more about the oil and gas industry and AI because people might not understand that connection.

First and foremost, like for some of you that actually joined us at the Counter Summit in Toronto, one of the sessions that was held by Kinegata and Dogwood and a couple other groups was really to showcase that the owners of the pipelines are the same owners of the data

centers.

And so when you kind of just trace that, it becomes very clear like who is behind all of the operations.

And so in Alberta, I think there's this added layer when we connect it to separatism, because in Alberta, when there is an extractive project, there is the agreement that the owner is going to then remediate the land and at some point close that project.

And so naturally, if it never closes, because now AI data centers, in Alberta in particular, there's a moratorium on renewable energy to be powering these AI data centers and data centers at large.

It means that these wells will stay in perpetuity, not necessarily because we have a marketable, valuable good that we need.

It's more to possibly just never actually have to close shop and remediate the land.

And so what we see is that I think AI data centers are justifying the continuation of fossil fuel proliferation and extractive industries, whether or not that's needed.

I think that's really, really, to me, through listening to the grassroots organizers on the ground, in a way that I hadn't fully wrapped my head around before.

And so the meaning of this separatist movement and whether it happens through the referendum next month just comes to like what that would mean for our country and the planet and what that fuels.

So when we also connect that to oil and gas connecting to defense and military and geopolitical warfare and spending, like what that means for a Canadian identity, I think is really crucial for understanding right now.