Funny how newz is reported or NOT reported these dayz. I pawed through all the Canadian News Websites looking for something postable but it was only when I got down to the "R's", RT to be exact, that I found a tidbit. According to RT, Canada is set to approve the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. This is nowhere to be found in the Canadian media. Here's the story and I will have more comments to follow:
Canada is likely to announce in mid-June that it would be proceeding with the controversial expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline designed to double the flow out of Alberta to the west coast in British Columbia.********************
Justin Trudeau’s federal cabinet will meet to discuss the Trans Mountain expansion on June 18 and is expected to take the decision on that day, officials tell Bloomberg, noting that “it’s possible but unlikely” that the government extends again the decision deadline in order to allow more time for consultations with stakeholders.
While Alberta and its leaders have been advocating for the pipeline expansion, British Columbia has been strongly opposing the project, which is now owned by the federal government of Canada. The fierce opposition in British Columbia has forced Kinder Morgan to reconsider its commitment to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline, and to sell the project to the Canadian government in August 2018.
Days later, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain expansion project, saying that the National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of the project was fraught with flaws that made it unsuitable as a basis for the government’s approval. The court ruled that the NEB failed to adequately consider how increased tanker traffic off British Columbia’s coasts would affect the environment and First Nations people in the region.
Currently, the federal government is conducting consultations with First Nations regarding the project, in an attempt to address all possible concerns that opponents may have. Should the outcome of the consultations be positive, work on the project could start fairly quickly, the business entity in charge of the expansion said last month.
Newly sworn-in Alberta Premier Jason Kenney expects the Canadian government to proceed with the project and told BNN Bloomberg in an interview last week: “After all, the federal government owns it now, so they’d better.”
Greencrow says: I have been opposed to the expansion based on the fact that there's "noting in it for BC". The Province of Alberta likes to tear up its hinterland, and pollute the regions that the oil is coming from. But it makes lots of lucre out of doing so. British Columbia OTOH is a silent and unwilling partner in all this destruction. We get the tearing up of our wilderness for the pipeline build BUT worst of all...British Columbia risks total destruction of our coastline, salmon fishery and waterways, should the inevitable huge oil spill occur. Is Alberta and/or the Federal government going to compensate us for all this risk and all the potential losses should they occur? No. Did Alberta and the Federal government offer British Columbia anything to "sweeten the pot"? I suggested they bury all the unsightly transmission lines routing through the lower mainland as some kind of compensation.
So far as I know...NOTHING specific has been offered to BC. So WHY on earth should we go along with it? Well, all I can say is there probably won't be very many Liberal Members of Parliament elected in BC in the Fall Election. I decided to vote Green yesterday after Andrew [banned from travelling to Russia] Scheer gave his disastrous clunker of a speech. As my blogging colleague, Northerntruthseeker said yesterday, Scheer would, if elected PM, move the Canadian Embassy to Jerusalem as a slap at the indigenous Palestinians and as a way of garnering support for the Conservative campaign from the Jews in Canada. The guy has the worst political instincts of any Canadian politician in modern times. With the possible exception of le Dauphin.
Yes, as NTS said yesterday, Canada is truly screwed. No one to vote for and all kinds of shit being shoved down our throats. British Columbians are paying the highest gas prices in the West. Coinkydynk? I think not. Our Premier, John Horgan, has asked a government body to investigate why. No need for an investigation. We're being Royally Fu*ked over by Big Oil, John.
But there is a silver lining to all this. I read a local headline the other day that said "BC will switch entirely over to Electric Cars by 2040". Not soon enough...I say.
from Greencrow As The Crow Flies http://bit.ly/2DV1nLi
Breaking News: Canada set to approve Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion - News Paper
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