"Trudeau OKs expanding Trans Mountain oil pipeline to B.C.; foes vow to fight"

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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/trudeau-oks-expanding-trans-mountain-oil-pipeline-to-bc-foes-vow-to-fight/

A major expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline that will nearly triple the capacity of an existing pipeline carrying oil from Alberta to a Vancouver-area harbor was approved by the Canadian government yesterday.

The project is opposed by many environmental groups, First Nations and tribes on both sides of the border because it would lead to a dramatic increase in tanker traffic on the Salish Sea — marine waters shared by British Columbia and Washington state — and increase the chance of spills, as well as stoke global warming.
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The expansion will result in a sevenfold increase in the number of oil tankers in the Salish Sea from 120 per year to 816 per year. That also creates a significant increase in the chance of spills, according to a vessel-traffic risk assessment by George Washington University.

“I stand tall and firmly say that this pipeline is not going to be built, whatever it takes,” said Charlene Aleck, an elected councilor of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. “You don’t just need First Nations’ consultation, you need their consent. They have never had a meaningful consultation, let alone gotten to consent,” she said of Kinder Morgan.

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1. Trudeau also approved the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement to the upper Midwest

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028318874

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-cabinet-trudeau-pipeline-decisions-1.3872828

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3872817.1480461440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/line-3.jpg

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3. They emphasize the pipeline construction jobs, but there is the possibility of many more

Jobs lost if the fragile ecology of the Salish sea and other environs are damaged by a spill.

I approve of much that Trudeau does, but not this.

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2. It's sad to see Canada moving forward with tar sands pipelines. /nt

[suffragette]

4. Yes, it is. The Salish people agree on this, across the border. So does

the mayor of Vancouver, BC.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/canadian-government-approves-kinder-morgans-trans-mountain-pipeline-but-rejects-enbridges-northern-gateway-pipeline/

But there remains opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia, the birthplace of the Greenpeace environmental movement. There is no guarantee it will get built despite Trudeau’s approval as it faces strong opposition from environmentalists and indigenous leaders. Vancouver, B.C. Mayor Gregor Robertson said he was profoundly disappointed by Trudeau’s decision and said it would bring seven times the number of oil tankers to Vancouver’s waters.