Trudeau's Government Approves Expansion of Divisive Trans Mountain Pipeline

[Eustace is Useful]

Source: New York Times

By Ian Austen
June 18, 2019

OTTAWA — Canada will move forward with a pipeline project that has set the country’s provinces against one another, opened rifts among its Indigenous communities and prompted major protests.

The project — which will expand the Trans Mountain pipeline that links Alberta’s oil sands to British Columbia — is a critical component of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s longstanding position that Canada needs to maintain a strong energy industry to support its efforts to combat climate change. His government bought the pipeline from its American owners a year ago to ensure its expansion.

“We are a government that cares deeply about the environment, and we care just as deeply about the economic success of Canadians,” Mr. Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa, announcing his cabinet’s approval of the expansion. “This isn’t an either-or proposition.”

“It is in Canada’s national interest to protect our environment and invest in tomorrow,” he added, “while making sure people can feed their families today.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/world/canada/trudeau-trans-mountain-pipeline.html

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I signed up for a Star Membership just so I could post this. Our Favorite Foreign Leader may have just pushed us all off the cliff.

[Kurt V.]

1. the Canadian left aren't happy. and are saying so.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

2. Trudeau was never really a liberal.

He ran on his name, an electoral reform platform he never intended to follow through on, and the disorganized state of the true-left NDP. And now his poll numbers are dropping thanks to a big scandal exacerbated by backstabbers in his own party, with only a few months to go before the election.

Energy jobs and utility costs are a big deal up here, and Trudeau knows he's already going to get blamed every time the price of gas hiccups. He feels the need to throw the industry a big oily bone.

[shanny]

3. Very true. the First Nations know

and so does everyone else after this BS

A pretty face who talked sweet and had no intention of delivering

[Recursion]

4. I'm still not convinced that pipelines are worse than trains

Yes, pipelines leak, but trains explode and obliterate villages.

[oldsoftie]

5. There has been research done on this and i believe you are right.

trains go through towns, pipelines dont

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. This.