No and it won't work now, the whole concept of social license is a failure. If People were interested in actual environmentalism, then the demand would be to shut down US production, especially in California, and Saudi Arabia and Russia who have really no environmental standards.
Canada gets targeted because it works because we have a unneccessary collective weakness. The Russians, Saudi's and American's don't care about that, they pump it and sell it and we hear nary a word.
When Biden came out with his tar sands word choices, all I could think of is what is this bs, California is far dirtier and their off shore stuff far more dangerous then anything we do up here. But there's no where near the same intensity of protest against those. this isn't about the environment, this is about competition elimination and market share. We're willing to give up ours, because somehow we have an over inflated sense of self that people are going to respect it.
The idea of social license, even internally in Canada outright failed. And Canada's reliance on the concept of somehow being soft on using our resources is going to lend an example isn't going to work.
We could come up with a extraction and pipeline concept in Canada that would actually clean the air and bring back carrier pigeons and it wouldn't matter.
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