Laut Umfragen unterstützt die Mehrheit der Kanadier – darunter auch Einwohner von British Columbia – den Pipeline-Vorstoß in Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/majority-of-canadians-including-b-c-residents-support-albertas-pipeline-push-poll-finds-9.6934295
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Global oil demand is slated to peak in 5 years, then flatline and drop thereafter. Even if you disregard all environmental concerns, Indigenous rights and start construction immediately (and that’s a huge if) it’ll still take 5 years to get a pipeline built. Which means by the time the pipeline goes live, the demand for the oil will have already begun a slow, painful decline for decades to come, making it highly unlikely that the investment required to build the pipeline in the first place will ever be recouped, let alone generate any net economic value.
This whole thing is bogus. It’s pure political theatre. If these politicians actually cared about our economic well-being, they’d be investing in things that can actually generate real wealth like value-added sectors, high-tech innovation and clean/renewable energy, instead of fighting for ways to funnel tax dollars to their oil industry cronies by building the most expensive paperweight ever.
A *slim* majority of BC residents may support ***a*** pipeline, however:
>In B.C, 44 per cent lean towards opening the province’s northern coast to tanker traffic either entirely or at least for this project.
There is no northern pipeline for bitumen without lifting the tanker ban.
Moreover, this is at the moment where the idea is *least* controversial. Who’s to say how public sentiment will shift once the information about the project begins to spread more freely?
Most Canadians would like to see the economy going and an at home solution to the economic attacks of America and China on Canada.
Hopefully the last few Canadians join us and we can work toward this together
If experts feel a pipeline would help, I’m all for it. By far the safest and most effective way to ship oil.
That said, I currently have little faith there’s any need for a pipeline, beyond Danielle Smith knowing that uninformed voters will respond well to the word „pipeline“.
These comment sections always seem to revolve around people thinking the government is going to be paying for the pipeline, that is not and should not be the case. The market should decide if there is a market for private capital to build these things. All we have to do is create the environment that allows for that to happen in the first place (tanker ban repeal, emissions cap repeal, C5 that counters C69 etc). At that point its their money to lose on the table, not ours.
Before 2015 private companies paid for these mega pipeline projects all on their own. After 2015 they lost billions trying to do the same thing under the Trudeau Liberals. Let’s get back to private money paying for things like that again so we can worry about funding things like healthcare and other social services. If the private company loses all their money because oil is suddenly not needed as predicted in this comment section (yeah right) then that’s on them
Governments have lost focus in this country. Create an environment that generates tax revenue to pay for the human services we need. Government needs to stay out of directly funding projects like this.
Interested as to the Alberta NDP’s response on this. Saw a Nenshi video criticizing Smith for her proposal; who is that message for? If almost 80% of Albertans support it, then a good chunk of his own voters would be supporting the pipeline as well…