Trudeau's Government Approves Expansion of Divisive Trans Mountain Pipeline [View all]
Source: New York Times
By Ian Austen
June 18, 2019
OTTAWA — Canada will move forward with a pipeline project that has set the country’s provinces against one another, opened rifts among its Indigenous communities and prompted major protests.
The project — which will expand the Trans Mountain pipeline that links Alberta’s oil sands to British Columbia — is a critical component of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s longstanding position that Canada needs to maintain a strong energy industry to support its efforts to combat climate change. His government bought the pipeline from its American owners a year ago to ensure its expansion.
“We are a government that cares deeply about the environment, and we care just as deeply about the economic success of Canadians,” Mr. Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa, announcing his cabinet’s approval of the expansion. “This isn’t an either-or proposition.”
“It is in Canada’s national interest to protect our environment and invest in tomorrow,” he added, “while making sure people can feed their families today.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/world/canada/trudeau-trans-mountain-pipeline.html
I signed up for a Star Membership just so I could post this. Our Favorite Foreign Leader may have just pushed us all off the cliff.
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