Alberta pitches southern route for West Coast pipeline, with a price tag of $35B or more | CBC News
“After a whole year of both levels of government saying we were going to hold out for a private proponent of the pipeline, we have another almost 100-per-cent-funded-by-taxpayer pipeline,” he said. “So, except for that 10 per cent that Pembina Pipeline would take on, this is a taxpayer-owned pipeline.”
-Chris Severson-Baker, executive director of the Pembina Institute, a non-partisan clean energy think tank.
Under the cover of a Canada Day holiday: June 30-Carney abandons Canadian emissions targets, breaking the promise he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support for his budget.
July 1-Ottawa, including Carney’s riding, is inundated with a climate change energized deluge if 12cm of rain, flooding parts of the city, damaging homes and infrastructure. Carney’s flight is delayed by the mayhem.
July 2-Carney breaks his promise to the nation that new pipelines must be totally private sector funded, backed up by carbon capture, supported by First Nations. This one is 90% funded jointly by Alberta and Trans Mountain Corporation - the company set up to run Trudeau’s $7.4B pipeline that actually cost Canadians $34.2B to build and doesn’t pay back enough to pay down the debt Canadians are holding.
The tone deafness is blinding.
The red-skin washing is no doubt just around the corner.
The carbon capture target was slashed by the industry from 68M tons to 16M tons just after the last MOU signing, and still has no credibility.
And even after this, Daniel Smith says this is only a step on the way from 4.5M bpd to 8M bpd.
What ever happened to “we don’t want to leave debts for our grand children”? Personally I’m staggered by how these people are so enthusiastic in leaving monstrous debts and a crushing environment for their own grandchildren.