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Originally Posted by Bownesian
@Slava, obviously I hope I'm wrong, but fears are what they are. I have yet to hear anything but equivocation from Trudeau's government on this front, positioned as they are between national and political interests. The report from the industry folks in the room today was very cautious.
Further, I'm not convinced that the new process is designed to enable success as it seems to give a veto to industry-hostile Indigenous groups, and requires consideration of Direct and Upstream GHG emissions based on "science, traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and other relevant evidence".
To me, this is meant to be like the Mackenzie Valley pipeline process - eternally delayed and finally approved only once it was no longer needed.
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Yeah I know and maybe I'm the eternal optimist here. I just hope that the bridge-building with first nations and things like that is going to be effective in building a consensus. I might be wrong and maybe we will never get a pipeline to get the product to market. I hope that isn't the case, and I really do think that the federal government will try to get something done.
And yeah, not biting on the GHG portion. I've already been flamed on that topic in this thread and have no desire to hear about it again at this point.