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By GRAHAM HICKS

There will be no dramatic cleaning out of Enbridge or TransCanada’s Calgary corporate headquarters, no fleet of moving vans heading down the American I-25 highway in a near straight line from Calgary through Denver to Houston.

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But until Canadian governments realize wealth creation is as important as the environment, gender imbalance and social justice, Alberta’s major pipeline building companies will slip-slide away to the U.S.

It won’t be dramatic. It never is. Corporations don’t want bad-news headlines.

But Enbridge and TransCanada build pipelines.

Major pipelines are not being built in Canada.

Pipelines are being built in the U.S.

Funny thing about doing business. You go where the work is.

Both TransCanada and Enbridge are going where the work is, via major acquisitions.

In 2016, TransCanada bought the Houston-based Columbia Pipeline Group for $13 billion – greatly increasing its American operations. With the acquisition, nearly half its 7,200 employees now work in the U.S.