ICBA Coffee & Construction #1: Pipelines, Mine Frozen, Massey Postponed

Welcome to ICBA Coffee & Construction — a fast, no-spin news briefing for the people who build British Columbia and Alberta. Three mornings a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we'll run through the projects, the politics, and the policy decisions that matter to your business — and tell you what they actually mean for your bottom line. Under ten minutes. No filler.

Episode 1 covers a lot of ground. Inflation jumped to 3.2 per cent in May — gas up better than 33 per cent, groceries up again — and we break down what that does to your fuel costs, your crews, and the interest-rate relief builders were counting on.

We dig into Alberta's nine-day countdown to file a million-barrel pipeline proposal by Canada Day, and why David Eby will cut the ribbon on LNG and a $400-million mine expansion but veto an oil line to the same coast. Same coast. Same jobs. That's not a principle. That's politics.

And we get into the cost of sloppy process: a $5-billion mine stalled because the government fumbled its duty to consult, and the Massey tunnel contract blowup that turned a funded, designed 2024 bridge into a $9-billion hole in the ground with no shovel in sight.

Builders need certainty. Right now, nobody's getting it.

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