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Originally Posted by Cappy
Ok man, my response was to Jason Kenney's tweet which tried to simplify energy easy and 40 years of Canadian Oil and Gas transportation to: look how far boats have to go. over land much shorter.
So, im sorry, Jason Kenney's tweet was dumb.
With respect to the pipelines in the graph, those are in the US, which is operating under an entirely different regulatory framework, and the majority of those lines were built decades ago, prior to changing environmental regulations.
Building a pipeline in todays climate is risky and expensive. i don't think you would disagree with this, no?
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The key is in this portion of your quote. You're assuming the above is a necessary assumption in your argument, when the entire argument is actually based on this.
The whole crux of the issue is that everyone agrees that "building a pipeline in todays climate is risky and expensive", but you can't just accept this as an unchangeable fact. It's definitely self-inflicted and Canada could be doing so much more to help bolster investor sentiment in the expense and risk profiles, rather than whatever the #### it is we've seen the last 10 years.