Biden saves Canada: ends Keystone XL

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With Global Warming averted Canadians cheer for America's new president.

[mookiemcgee]

With Global Warming averted non-Albertan Canadians cheer for America's new president.

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[Dukasaur]

With Global Warming averted non-Albertan Canadians cheer for America's new president.

Fixed!

Pretty nearly right. It's a little more nuanced. Even in Alberta, there are environmentalists who hate Big Oil, while even in the East, there are right-wingers who love Big Oil.

During the last federal election, while I was out canvassing for the Green party, there was one homeowner who spat, "I'm not voting for somebody who wants to throw the oil workers under the bus!" before slamming the door in my face.

Bitumen is horrible for the environment, great for the federal budget. I think the largest fraction -- probably like 40% -- of Canadians can see both sides. Probably 35% are solidly on the side of the environment and 25% are solidly on the side of the budget.

[Dukasaur]

Related:

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/01/19/opinion/biden-cancels-keystone-xl-alberta-laughing-stock

According to a number of recent reports, cancelling the presidential permit that Donald Trump signed for the project is one of the Biden administration’s first priorities. And while that’s a reflection of the work of progressive activists within the Democratic Party, it’s also a byproduct of the ongoing incompetence coming from the government of Alberta — one that’s already invested more than a billion taxpayer dollars in the project.

In May 2019, Premier Jason Kenney launched what he called a “fight back” strategy — one that took aim at the alleged enemies of his province’s oil and gas industry. But nearly two years in, and at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, all he has to show for it is a bunch of self-inflicted black eyes.

The government’s so-called “war room,” which was supposed to tell the truth about Alberta’s oil industry, has instead embarrassed itself at every available opportunity, from the stolen logo that defined its launch to an ill-advised fight it tried to pick with the New York Times.

But that may all pale in comparison to the work of its inquiry into “the foreign funding of anti-energy campaigns,” whose report (which is both over-budget and overdue) is expected soon. Last week, the inquiry released the documents that will inform its report, and it reads like the bibliography for an undergraduate student’s C- political science paper. Ironically, it even includes a report commissioned by the inquiry from Energy In Depth, a pro-oil organization that was launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

[armati]

I think the transmountain line is being built now. Expected to be finished in 2022.


A line from alberta to new brunswick should also be built imo.