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Old 07-14-2016, 02:14 PM   #256
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Originally Posted by Tinordi View Post
Being consulted with doesn't mean you get what you want.

It means that the city is able to adjust the plans to have address the greatest number of issues among the people impacted by the project.

A consultation is not a veto over a project.

Why is that so hard to understand?
That obviously can't be the case, because if it were, we'd have more pipelines.

Hopefully the green text is not necessary. The point is that indigenous advocates are trying (succeeding?) in moving the goalposts, so it should not be surprising if their interpretation of consultation (as a veto) gets picked up by the general NIMBY populace.
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