[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

Someone once told me that Energy East is dead in the water because it is in violation of NATO and certain international laws. He also said that Asian markets is fine.

The reason being is that if Energy East goes through, in theory Canada has the ability to be energy independent for the entire country. That means that NATO tools such as embargoes will be a lot less effective against Canada in the event of war. Although perhaps the belief is that Canada isn't of major concern for energy independence due to our military size vs borders and proximity to USA, it isn't a great precedence to have any country as energy independent. Other potentially troublesome countries will point fingers at Canada as an example why they too should be allowed to be energy independent.

I do not know the validity to this claim and I'm not going to research NATO/international law to confirm it. But the logic of what he was describing makes sense to the point I doubt he's making it up. I also do not know if this energy independence is a rule being followed by the USA. If Trump does decide to scrap that rule, I'm not against immediately citing them as an example for why we should be allowed to do Energy East.

The same individual said that Energy Asia is fine or USA is fine because it doesn't create a potential energy independence for the entire country situation. Canada can create more pipelines to send the energy wherever we want, Canada apparently just can't allow the Western and Eastern side of the country to link up and make it easy to transfer energy from one side of the country to the other.

That sounds entirely made up and nonsensical.