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Originally Posted by cal_guy
Energy East is an absolutely terrible pipeline because it tolls were so expensive. It went up to $17 to Saint John uncommitted. That might work in $90-110 barrel oil but not $50-70. There isn't even that much demand left in Eastern Canada as Ontario as well Montreal is almost entirely Canadian.
Northern Gateway had huge political opposition that crossed traditional lines kinda of like the current opposition to coal mining. Losing the weakly supporting pro-pipeline people would have been a disaster and there's no guarantee we would have won them back. It could have been a fire that engulfed pipelines and the oil industry.
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Canada should be able to export resources within it's own borders more easily than to foreign nations? Maybe Energy East wasn't ideal but surely there is an economical way to share our abundant resources within the country rather than importing from Saudi Arabia.