Trudeau's marine safety plan paves the way for OK Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

Mowich

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With his announcement Monday of a 1.5 billion marine protection plan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau created the conditions to approve Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

If he does, Trudeau will have broken the paralysis on pipeline approvals orchestrated by the environmental lobby that culminated with last year's refusal by U.S. President Barack Obama to permit TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline.

Though Trudeau didn't tip his hand about his plans for tripling the capacity of the Edmonton to Vancouver pipeline, he said the ocean's protection plan meets the highest global marine safety standards.

His cabinet is due to decide by Dec. 19 whether the Kinder Morgan project is in the national interest.

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Cliffy

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More hot air from the unicorn's butt hole. Kinda like the state of the art clean of the tug that's taken over a month.
 

Cannuck

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Of course the pipeline is in the nation's interests. Only silly people and ideologues would deny it
 

Kreskin

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If everybody hates it it means he must be doing something right.
 

mentalfloss

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This is entirely in line with Liberals theme of making compromises to get projects completed where the Conservatives couldn't.