Does the oil and gas industry really need to be subsidized at the moment? Replace "partly paid" by tolls with PPP development recovered completely via tolls where government provides a market loan at most - better if they simply act to secure right of way where needed. There is no way government should be spending money on this if it can be self-financed by for profit entities - corporate welfare only makes sense for a nascent industry, and even that is questionable.
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