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Originally Posted by Regorium
My issue with a lot of these things is that pipelines are unfairly blamed for a lot of upstream/downstream effects (eg. the BC gov and the letter from all those professors). I don't see, for example, people protesting GM/Ford plants because every additional car on the road causes pollution! I don't see people protesting about tanker safety, more strict regulations on tanker certification and inspections or anything like that. It's all the pipeline's fault.
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Oh you are 100% right here. Transcanada pretty much ended up being the proxy state in an environmentalists vs oil sands war. And really, the environmentalists are partially a proxy state for true source of their money (Rockefeller Foundation for one...)
Shotgun the oil sands getting to be the great Western hope in this analogy and the environmentalist money getting to be the evil commies.