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Originally Posted by Dion
IMO Notley is at fault for this. She has put so much of her own political capital into pipelines which has made her an easy target for the UCP and others. Bragging about shovels in the ground before the court ruling and saying that social licenses are why it was a done deal.
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But at the same time no one has really pointed out how they would have handled it differently to get things done. At least nothing reasonable. I've heard everything from stop paying equalization payments, seceding from the rest of Canada, to getting the military but there's a reason the UCP hasn't really said anything of substance except that pipelines=good.
And when it was originally approved, and remember that it was approved, Trudeau did bring up all the Climate Leadership Plan stuff as a reason. Unfortunately for Alberta (and Notley) the Court of Appeal ruled they dun goofed. This was really outside their control, the NEB ####ed up.
https://decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-...of_Conclusions
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[4] While a number of applicants challenge the report of the National Energy Board, as explained below, the Order in Council is legally the only decision under review. Its validity is challenged on two principal grounds: first, the Board’s process and findings were so flawed that the Governor in Council could not reasonably rely on the Board’s report; second, Canada failed to fulfil the duty to consult owed to Indigenous peoples.
[5] Applying largely uncontested legal principles established by the Supreme Court of Canada to the factual record, a factual record that is also largely not contested, I conclude that most of the flaws asserted against the Board’s process and findings are without merit. However, the Board made one critical error. The Board unjustifiably defined the scope of the Project under review not to include Project-related tanker traffic. The unjustified exclusion of marine shipping from the scope of the Project led to successive, unacceptable deficiencies in the Board’s report and recommendations. As a result, the Governor in Council could not rely on the Board’s report and recommendations when assessing the Project’s environmental effects and the overall public interest.
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It's very likely that the pipeline is approved if the NEB did some consultation and included the tankers in the scope.