Yesterday, David Austin was on Jill Krop’s Unfiltered regarding Shell buying British gas producer BG Group for over $69 billion. David was also interviewed for a Ted Chernecki story on Global News on a similar subject. David says “BG, in my mind, has always been a real estate play because BG doesn’t have natural gas reserves to back up the plan.”
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