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Bump Vancouver's new anti-pipeline mayor speaks up


https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...#comments-area

Vancouver’s incoming mayor says a revamped National Energy Board review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is likely doomed to fail and will land the federal government back in a courtroom.


The energy board is reviewing the project’s impacts on the marine environment and Kennedy Stewart says it’s too rushed, including a week-long window for Indigenous groups and others to apply to participate.

“I could see this being deadlocked like the Mackenzie Valley pipeline for many, many, many years,” he added, referring to a proposed natural gas line through the Northwest Territories that was stalled for decades.

His opinion on the pipeline expansion hasn’t changed, he said, and he will continue to back the city’s practice of supporting local Indigenous groups in their court challenges by applying to be an intervener.

This was one prime reason why the Liberal's should have appealed the FCA decision, so at least there could have been a certain definition of what the consulting process should look like. Instead we're going to be lashing in the dark, and there's no guarantee that another court case won't kill this again.


Oh, and this blithering idiot clearly dosen't understand that the whole shipping Oil east was killed by the government.


National Post Opinion Column on the government reaction on Trans Mountain


https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-...iry-monopolies

t hopefully needs no pointing out at this point that when the Ontario auto sector’s ability to export parts and vehicles into the U.S. market was threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump, the federal Liberal government hurried to come to terms with Americans on a new trade deal. When the protectionist Trump slapped tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum exports, Ottawa immediately responded with targeted retaliatory tariffs of our own, and promised immediate support to workers in threatened industries.

But when Alberta’s pipeline capacity is so constrained that it must warehouse valuable crude even as prices reach levels not seen in years, what does Ottawa do? It nationalizes the existing Trans Mountain pipeline in hopes it can expand it later. Much later, evidently. As in, we have no idea when — or if — that might actually happen. And that’s the extent of it.

It’s hard not to notice how to this Liberal government, a threat to Canadian exports that occurs in Central Canada is a crisis requiring an immediate solution, while a threat in the West … is not. One could further compare and contrast the lack of help to Alberta with favours lavished upon Quebec’s aviation sector, or (largely) Eastern Canadian dairy farmers.

Personally, I think that this thing is done, I think it will become to convoluted, confusing and expensive, and sometime after the next election, it will be poopcanned and the government will write off the purchase price.