Alberta bewerben
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-to-apply-to-major-projects-office-for-new-bitumen-pipeline-to-northern-b-c-coast-1.7648135
Alberta bewerben
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-to-apply-to-major-projects-office-for-new-bitumen-pipeline-to-northern-b-c-coast-1.7648135
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Without even a route decided, it is an extremely early proposal. I guess the big question is how BC will react given Alberta is proposing a pipeline mainly of its territory.
Edit: Unsurprisingly, David Eby isn’t a fan of the project https://x.com/Dave_Eby/status/1973481939677094075
>The province says it needs to be the proponent for the application because private industry isn’t currently willing to commit the necessary capital to a pipeline like this, given existing federal regulations, in particular the [restrictions implemented in 2019 on oil tankers](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/oil-tanker-ban-passed-senate-1.5184406) in B.C.’s northern waters.
The Tanker Moritorium wasn’t some knee-jerk partisan maneuver to block pipelines; and [the decision has been subject to a number of safety reviews](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Northern_Gateway_Pipelines#Tanker_moratorium_in_British_Columbia) since it came into action.
But also, *it’s not just environmental safety regulation* that scares investors away from this proposal. There are a number of bands along the _Northern Gateway_ route who will not accept the pipeline, including the Wet’suwet’en. Since the _Coastal Gaslink_ protests in 2020, there has been a number of important outcomes regarding indigenous title in BC. It won’t just be protestors they’ll face, it will be teams of lawyers.
There won’t be a pipeline without _years_ or even _decades_ of conflict and litigation.
What I don’t understand is why they keep flagellating themselves by pushing for pipelines to the north coast instead of just proposing more through the south
Sweet. Alberta wants to build itself a pipeline. From what some capitalist just lectured me on, they have the royalties to pay for it. I wish them well and I’m sure Ottawa can hold up its end. As long as it doesn’t involve sales, of course
Listening in on the press conference and they were suggesting that the conversations they were having with FNs were different this time than from 10 years ago, that FNs were interested in equity etc.
We’re going to find out pretty soon just how much truth there is to that.
Surely Alberta’s government isn’t so foolish to have launched this without already having a critical FN decidedly on board?
For reference a decade ago I’m unsure if there was any FN on the coast that supported Northern Gateway.
Is there some kind of technical reason the Calgary oil patch is so darn fixated on the northern BC coast? Because it seems to be a far more politically difficult, environmentally risky and inefficient route compared with just doubling down on increasing the throughput of the line to Vancouver. Right now it looks more like sour grapes that Northern Gateway was doomed five times over.
Many Albertans are not supporting this. Alberta is more then oil and oil workers. The world is spending billions on investments in clean renewable energy. We need to modernize. We have thousands of toxic abandoned wells, leaking tailings ponds slowly killing us and our water, poisioning ground water. Oil companies are killing Caribou, people, our water and our air. Alberta will run out of fresh water in about 20 years….we cannot eat or drink oil. Renewables are proven technology, and employ more people.