As an infrastructure project, it makes sense for pipeline projects to travel through as much of Canada as possible.
From an environmentalist perspective, the shortest path is less prone to spills than a longer span.
The shorter span is through more ecologically sensitive areas, the longer span more straight-forward construction and less environmental impact.
Energy East seems the easiest solution, perhaps even easier than Keystone XL, it will just need to be made attractive to the jurisdictions it will pass through. Foot stomping about the importance of the project to Alberta isn't going to get it done, so Alberta is going to have to find a new approach that makes it easy for the Trudeau government to grease the wheels for the project to move ahead.
That strategy should avoid huffing and puffing as a core concept.
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