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DiracSpike · 04-16-2020, 05:30 PM

The Lawyer for the Sierra Club (biased) seems to think this nullifies all water crossings.
Sonya Savage (biased) seems to think this a narrow decision on 2 water crossings.
BNN Bloomberg says this could push the construction timeline a year, and that the decision was a surprise but also likely to stand up to appeal. Kenney apparently said yesterday that he's been assured the Presidential permit was completely lawful and compliant but who the hell even knows anymore, I'm sure he also didn't think they'd get some unclear number of stream crossings invalidated either.

I don't know, I have a bad feeling. They better have a strong and timely appeal process available or it sounds like we're boned and this was a massive #### up unless Trump somehow gets re-elected. At least TMX has started pipe laying around Edmonton, looks like we'll have to access the US Gulf coast the hard way by tankers from Vancouver through the Panama canal and back up. And that might not happen either.

04-16-2020, 05:30 PM	#5196
DiracSpike First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: BELTLINE Exp:	The Lawyer for the Sierra Club (biased) seems to think this nullifies all water crossings. Sonya Savage (biased) seems to think this a narrow decision on 2 water crossings. BNN Bloomberg says this could push the construction timeline a year, and that the decision was a surprise but also likely to stand up to appeal. Kenney apparently said yesterday that he's been assured the Presidential permit was completely lawful and compliant but who the hell even knows anymore, I'm sure he also didn't think they'd get some unclear number of stream crossings invalidated either. I don't know, I have a bad feeling. They better have a strong and timely appeal process available or it sounds like we're boned and this was a massive #### up unless Trump somehow gets re-elected. At least TMX has started pipe laying around Edmonton, looks like we'll have to access the US Gulf coast the hard way by tankers from Vancouver through the Panama canal and back up. And that might not happen either. Last edited by DiracSpike; 04-16-2020 at 05:32 PM.