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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Oh totally agree. Yes it is on everything, not just pipelines. Canada has a massive problem IMO. Nobody can or wants to build anything. That is a huge, huge issue. The country and prevailing attitude is very anti-development, and an abandonment and severe under appreciation to what has enabled Canada to become what it is today. But yeah, pipelines in particular are not getting constructed.
I think you’re right the industry is pretty whiny, entitled and they feel targeted. but personally I understand where the sentiment comes from. I understand why not everyone shares that view too.
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Don’t kid yourselves that this is a purely made in Canada problem. Just look what Enbridge had to do to simply replace Line 3 in the US. The era of long inter jurisdiction pipelines is likely over, North America is about plumbed up. Environmental advocates have rightly figured out that pipelines are easier fo fight than anything else, and have been successful doing so.
As for Gateway, even with Harpers conditions it probably would’ve gotten built but Trudeaus actions on the tanker moratorium were the nail. As for Energy East I think it was always dead. The length of new line required was longer though than Gateway, and most of it in Quebec. There was no huge market out east. TC knew it was a bad project and tried to use it as leverage in Keystone, which failed miserably.
The producers were likely never going to match production to fill all those pipes, they just loved the idea of massive offtake capacity but the Enbridge mainline would’ve seen tough days if all those got built