What is it about Albertans? Is there something about a world-wide oil industry collapse that they don't get? 

Global oil prices are down. Global demand is down. Bitumen is worth far less than crude oil. Yet despite these incontrovertible facts, Albertans think a pipeline to the coast will solve their problems. All that'll do is increase the supply glut, therefore reducing prices further. Nobody, not even China, is ever going to pay Brent prices for bitumen. 

Alberta's problems go far beyond access to tidewater. Demand is down, remember? Oil is a sunset industry. Low crude prices have taken a toll on Exxon profits, which fell from US$32.5 billion  in 2014 to $16.2 billion in 2015 to $7.8 billion in 2016 (and will decline again in 2017). Diversify!

Alberta thinks that we in BC should sacrifice our environment and our economy? Alberta lost a lot of tarsands jobs but will probably never get them back even with a pipeline. We stand to lose far more - much of it irreplaceable.