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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Either way, they're running as fast as they can from this approval. They wont even face the pubic on it hiding behind a press release. You can pretty much rest assured that this never gets built. Only 1 of Christy Clark's 5 conditions has been met and the others likely never will be. BC has to issue about 60 licenses and approvals for it to be built. Stopping it is well within it's legal powers. There is at least 5 years of Supreme Court challenges from FNs to gum it up. There's a federal election and another provincial election to come. And there's likely now a referendum in BC.
Dead.
It didn't have to be that way, but this government just doesn't operate in that fashion.
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Lets be honest, there was always going to be fierce opposition regardless. With the environmental groups having the oilsands in their crosshairs they were always going to push hard to oppose. No one could have sold this where the majority would be satisfied.