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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If Harper had shown better leadership on environmental issues, maybe everyone wouldn't be so opposed to pipelines.
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The failure to act on environmental issues is worldwide, not limited to Harper. Its now becoming a truly significant issue politically and it has taken a long time to get there. Despite this I still remember when Canada was fighting with the US over "Acid Rain", that was around 1980/81, it was the topic of the day. It became resolved within a decade, but despite this, US coal fired electrical generation has a carbon footprint still 50 times that of the oilsands. So why all this fighting over Keystone?
The cynical view, and I tend to agree with it, is that the US government is not so concerned about the environmental impact, but rather, don't want to give Canadian petroleum easier access to the world market via the Gulf Coast. Their own long term interests include keeping Canadian petroleum captive to themselves over the next 50 years.