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Originally Posted by Whynotnow
That’s just not true about the us, getting linear infrastructure approved there is almost as arduous, full of court challenges etc.
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It’s the US, everyone litigates, but the regulatory process is definitely not as arduous, and the approval process takes nowhere near as long as it does in Canada. You look at the projects that had some of these “issues”, and none of them compare to how drawn out something like TMX was with the back and forth with unconstitutional legal challenges and need for re-approvals, etc.
Despite all of the other issues, KXL would have gotten built if Biden didn’t come into power and kill it (remember the argument was that the feds couldn’t control things in Canada)
DAPL had more press and legal crap than anything Canada had, and it got proposed and built in like 3 years.
Line 5 has had constant state challenges and issues, but federal courts there keep shooting them down and allowing the pipeline to continue.
You cannot be serious when you say that the US is just as bad as Canada. Bill C-69 by itself is an atrocious piece of legislation that basically was intentionally designed to slow major infrastructure projects down to a halt.