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Originally Posted by blender
If you call it Nimbyism, it's easy to be dismissive. If you call it careful consideration of our natural environment and respect for indigenous rights it's actually good policy and governance.
Declaring an emergency to bypass due process and panic building a bunch of infrastructure is not the correct way forward. In fact, it sounds like exactly how Trump's crew would do it. As has been mentioned, the infrastructure wouldn't be available for purpose for years anyway.
Don't get me wrong; I'm a pragmatist, so I can support
building out a better energy infrastructure to support a
national energy policy, but it would need to be done responsibly.
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We disagree, all good. Nobody who wants this country to have an economic future for their kids or future generations is a “wingnut”. The pendulum has swung too far to favour environmentalists and indigenous groups because guess what? We don’t need to consult them because I’ll tell you what they say- they don’t want it. They strongly oppose it. They will not have pipelines. So what, the 40 million Canadians get ####ed because of the desires of a few?
Moreover, personally I think this is a super critical juncture in this nation’s history. I believe our sovereignty is at stake. The US strategy here is to crush us economically and then come in and say hey, join us, and you won’t have economic pain. In that context, how do indigenous think it’s going to be after being taken over by the USA? Will the billions in reconciliation transferred to Canadian First Nations continue with a country that has no economy or worse doesn’t even exist? Hell, the FN groups should be begging for this to be built.
Honestly, the ones who sound like wingnuts are the ones still thinking that Canadian environmental and oil and gas regulatory frameworks that got us into this disaster are the perfect recipe to get us out of it. Yeah let’s go poll people who hate pipelines to see if they’ll let us have an economic future.