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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
As much as I dislike "some" Quebecer's viewpoint on Energy East, this isn't out of line. Alberta projects now garner approval via joint review boards (Federal/provincial).
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Except that the transportation of goods is a federal mandate and not a provincial mandate.
This would be equivalent to Alberta demanding to stop and review every Quebec product that uses the Alberta highway infrastructure. If we decided to stop it the Feds would rightfully step in and stat, you cannot do that we reviewed it and approved it.
The provincial environmental concerns are supposed to be taken into account during the federal reviews as are aboriginal concerns and all of that other stuff.
Quebec basically wants say over something that is not in their mandate.
This would be equivalent to Manitoba and Ontario telling Quebec that they don't want their electrical lines polluted with Quebec power.
This is ridiculous and it comes down to Quebec wanting the ability to blackmail Alberta over the transport of its product through their territory.
At this point the federal government needs to step in and public ally clarify the review process, and set hard dates on it.