Trans Mountain ‘pipeline is going to get built’: Trudeau dismisses B.C.’s bitumen ban

Cliffy

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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag

OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline, according to a national poll released today by Nanos Research. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of people in Quebec (43 per cent in the rest of the Canada) say taxpayers shouldn’t pay a cent toward the project.
Environmental and law groups are in Ottawa this week, briefing members of parliament about the economic risks of borrowing more money to continue construction on the project. Trans Mountain’s new estimated cost of $12.6 billion comes on top of $4.5 billion spent by Ottawa in 2018 to acquire the existing Trans Mountain system.
“Canadians are rightly alarmed that the Trudeau government is spending billions of our tax dollars to expand the oil sands while the majority are uncomfortable building Trans Mountain with borrowed money,” said Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace Canada. “Quebec voters in particular want to see the government not waste that money on a project our climate can’t afford.”
“The pipeline’s shocking new price tag is a game changer for the Trans Mountain project,” said Sven Biggs, climate and energy campaigner at Stand.earth. “An overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to spend $12.6 billion taxpayer dollars on an oil pipeline. It’s time to change course before borrowing billions more to ramp up construction, and invest instead in clean energy and direct support for struggling workers in Western Canada.”
Canada’s deficit is projected to grow to $26.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year in March, up from $18 billion in 2018-2019. Because pipeline construction is not in the federal budget, the government needs to borrow additional money to build the Trans Mountain expansion.


More: https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/canadians-reject-trans-mountain-new-price-tag
 

pgs

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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag

OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline, according to a national poll released today by Nanos Research. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of people in Quebec (43 per cent in the rest of the Canada) say taxpayers shouldn’t pay a cent toward the project.
Environmental and law groups are in Ottawa this week, briefing members of parliament about the economic risks of borrowing more money to continue construction on the project. Trans Mountain’s new estimated cost of $12.6 billion comes on top of $4.5 billion spent by Ottawa in 2018 to acquire the existing Trans Mountain system.
“Canadians are rightly alarmed that the Trudeau government is spending billions of our tax dollars to expand the oil sands while the majority are uncomfortable building Trans Mountain with borrowed money,” said Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace Canada. “Quebec voters in particular want to see the government not waste that money on a project our climate can’t afford.”
“The pipeline’s shocking new price tag is a game changer for the Trans Mountain project,” said Sven Biggs, climate and energy campaigner at Stand.earth. “An overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to spend $12.6 billion taxpayer dollars on an oil pipeline. It’s time to change course before borrowing billions more to ramp up construction, and invest instead in clean energy and direct support for struggling workers in Western Canada.”
Canada’s deficit is projected to grow to $26.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year in March, up from $18 billion in 2018-2019. Because pipeline construction is not in the federal budget, the government needs to borrow additional money to build the Trans Mountain expansion.


More: https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/canadians-reject-trans-mountain-new-price-tag
Well no sh-t Sherlock . A private company was willing to do it at zero cost to Canadians .
 

Twin_Moose

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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag
OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline, according to a national poll released today by Nanos Research. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of people in Quebec (43 per cent in the rest of the Canada) say taxpayers shouldn’t pay a cent toward the project.
Environmental and law groups are in Ottawa this week, briefing members of parliament about the economic risks of borrowing more money to continue construction on the project. Trans Mountain’s new estimated cost of $12.6 billion comes on top of $4.5 billion spent by Ottawa in 2018 to acquire the existing Trans Mountain system.
“Canadians are rightly alarmed that the Trudeau government is spending billions of our tax dollars to expand the oil sands while the majority are uncomfortable building Trans Mountain with borrowed money,” said Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace Canada. “Quebec voters in particular want to see the government not waste that money on a project our climate can’t afford.”
“The pipeline’s shocking new price tag is a game changer for the Trans Mountain project,” said Sven Biggs, climate and energy campaigner at Stand.earth. “An overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to spend $12.6 billion taxpayer dollars on an oil pipeline. It’s time to change course before borrowing billions more to ramp up construction, and invest instead in clean energy and direct support for struggling workers in Western Canada.”
Canada’s deficit is projected to grow to $26.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year in March, up from $18 billion in 2018-2019. Because pipeline construction is not in the federal budget, the government needs to borrow additional money to build the Trans Mountain expansion.
More: https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/canadians-reject-trans-mountain-new-price-tag

Big deal he is borrowing Billions to buy a UN seat that we really don't need, all he needed to do is enforce the National interest law and it wouldn't have costed the middle and upper middle class taxpayers a red cent.
 

JLM

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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag

OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline, according to a national poll released today by Nanos Research. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of people in Quebec (43 per cent in the rest of the Canada) say taxpayers shouldn’t pay a cent toward the project.
Environmental and law groups are in Ottawa this week, briefing members of parliament about the economic risks of borrowing more money to continue construction on the project. Trans Mountain’s new estimated cost of $12.6 billion comes on top of $4.5 billion spent by Ottawa in 2018 to acquire the existing Trans Mountain system.
“Canadians are rightly alarmed that the Trudeau government is spending billions of our tax dollars to expand the oil sands while the majority are uncomfortable building Trans Mountain with borrowed money,” said Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace Canada. “Quebec voters in particular want to see the government not waste that money on a project our climate can’t afford.”
“The pipeline’s shocking new price tag is a game changer for the Trans Mountain project,” said Sven Biggs, climate and energy campaigner at Stand.earth. “An overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to spend $12.6 billion taxpayer dollars on an oil pipeline. It’s time to change course before borrowing billions more to ramp up construction, and invest instead in clean energy and direct support for struggling workers in Western Canada.”
Canada’s deficit is projected to grow to $26.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year in March, up from $18 billion in 2018-2019. Because pipeline construction is not in the federal budget, the government needs to borrow additional money to build the Trans Mountain expansion.


More: https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/canadians-reject-trans-mountain-new-price-tag


I'm wondering if part of the increased cost is due to unnecessary delays!
 

spilledthebeer

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Yes - AND AN EVEN MORE AMAZING ADMISSION BY Mohawk GRAND CHIEF - Serge Simon..........................


that the blockades SHOULD END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The UGLY REALITY is that native radicals are PISSING OFF.........................


NOT ONLY A LOT OF CDNS - over 60 percent of Cdns are disgusted with the radicals and with LIE-beral handling of the mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But radicals are ALSO PISSING OFF A LOT OF NATIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Who do NOT LIKE TO SEE their elected leaders disrespected in such a fashion by an ARROGANT MINORITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


NOR ARE many natives happy about the apparent loss of jobs that will harm them if the pipelines are delayed to much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The current blockade mess is a battle that NEITHER LIE-berals nor natives can win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Too bad Cliffy is too ignorant to recognize this fact!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!










And now - here we are a scant 24 hours later and chief Simon HAS RECANTED his words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Repudiated every word of logic and common sense related to taking down the blockades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Simon made his original statements and they went down so well with the band that HAD ELECTED HIM.......................


that he was padlocked out of his govt office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And faced DEMANDS that he RESIGN FROM HIS ELECTED POSITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Should we ask if he also faced SLIGHTLY VEILED threats of VIOLENCE IF HE DID NOT ALTER HIS POSITION?????????????


And should we ask if his attackers were the same people who elected him????????????


Or where they professional agitators from some place OFF THE RESERVE?????????????????????



We can sincerely blame LIE-berals for allowing this native MESS to fester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And just HOW CONCERNED is Our idiot Boy Justin about "reconciliation" with natives anyway????????????


It was only last summer that some native protestors interrupted a LIE-beral fund raiser out west .......................


to complain about Mercury contamination in the water at Grassy Narrows Reserve............................


and Our idiot Boy - knowing the protestors HAD BOUGHT TICKETS TO GET PAST SECURITY..........................


quipped "thank you for your contribution" as security hauled the protestors away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Just another LIE-beral "teachable moment" gone WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

spilledthebeer

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I'm wondering if part of the increased cost is due to unnecessary delays!




GOSH THAT IS A CLEVER OBSERVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LETS SEE NOW.............................


THREE YEARS WORTH OF general Cdn INFLATION....................................


Not to mention Yankee tariffs on steel and aluminum..................................



ENDLESS AIR FLIGHTS FOR LIE-beral "NEGOTIATORS" TO GO TALK TO "HEREDITARY CHIEFS".......................


NOT TO MENTION THE COST OF FOOD AND HOTELS.........................


AND THERE IS ALSO THE EXTRA BRIBE MONEY THAT IS BEING SHOVELED OUT....................


TO PLACATE SOME OF THE MORE AGREEABLE NATIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Then pay for most of the environmental assessments TO BE RE-DONE........................................



Then add all these UNPLANNED EXTRA COSTS.......................................


and try to guess why the pipeline is COSTING MORE THAN PLANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THEN CONSIDER THAT Our idiot Boy Justin TOLD US he wanted to KILL the entire Cdn oil patch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And that he would do so by pushing the price of oil and natural gas SO HIGH......................


that we could NOT AFFORD TO USE IT EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Within that context - the SOARING PRICE TAG FOR THE PIPELINE........................


LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL AND LIE-beral style SENSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The soaring cost of the pipeline IS LIE-beral POLICY IN SUCCESSFUL ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As I have said all along - the pipeline WILL BE COMPLETED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AFTER Our idiot Boy Justin and his loser LIE-berals HIT THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And a NEW GOVT TAKES OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

taxslave

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STICKER SHOCK: Canadians reject Trans Mountain’s new price tag
OTTAWA – Only 16 per cent of Canadians approve of the federal government spending more than $12 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline, according to a national poll released today by Nanos Research. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of people in Quebec (43 per cent in the rest of the Canada) say taxpayers shouldn’t pay a cent toward the project.
Environmental and law groups are in Ottawa this week, briefing members of parliament about the economic risks of borrowing more money to continue construction on the project. Trans Mountain’s new estimated cost of $12.6 billion comes on top of $4.5 billion spent by Ottawa in 2018 to acquire the existing Trans Mountain system.
“Canadians are rightly alarmed that the Trudeau government is spending billions of our tax dollars to expand the oil sands while the majority are uncomfortable building Trans Mountain with borrowed money,” said Patrick Bonin of Greenpeace Canada. “Quebec voters in particular want to see the government not waste that money on a project our climate can’t afford.”
“The pipeline’s shocking new price tag is a game changer for the Trans Mountain project,” said Sven Biggs, climate and energy campaigner at Stand.earth. “An overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to spend $12.6 billion taxpayer dollars on an oil pipeline. It’s time to change course before borrowing billions more to ramp up construction, and invest instead in clean energy and direct support for struggling workers in Western Canada.”
Canada’s deficit is projected to grow to $26.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year in March, up from $18 billion in 2018-2019. Because pipeline construction is not in the federal budget, the government needs to borrow additional money to build the Trans Mountain expansion.
More: https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/canadians-reject-trans-mountain-new-price-tag
Was that the poll DOGWOOD did in their coffee room?
 

spilledthebeer

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Imagine if Hoid was PM? Cleaning each other's assholes with our tongues would be at epidemic levels!


Oh my..................I fear you need a little correction there Girth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I fear you under estimate what a total tool LIE-beral minded asshats like hemerHOID really are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If hemerHOID were Pm we would NOT be doing each others assholes as you suggest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I fear there would be a Royal Commission to establish who would be "cleaners"


and who would be "cleanees"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No LIE-beral policy can be considered fully formed and ready to implement.............................


until it contains a VERY HEAVY SLUG of BIGOTRY AND BIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Consider this article about LIE-berals and Wuhan Virus BULLSH+T::::::::::







Here is an article illustrating that ordinary Cdns are not buying the garbage that LIE-berals are selling in an effort to calm the public about Wuhan Virus!! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Restaurant owner targeted by coronavirus rumour bewildered by lies spread online

By Lien Yeung from CBC

Published February 19, 2020

Lily Yung, owner of of the Grand Crystal Seafood Restaurant in Burnaby, B.C.'s Crystal Mall, says a 36-character WeChat message tanked her family's business in less than a day.

(Uh huh -and we resently heard that Cdn alleged racists forced the closure of a Muslim restaurant in Toronto - and LIE-berals were indignant as usual - till it was discovered that the son of the owner HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED as one of several THUGS preventing people from entering to hear Maxime Bernier speak during the election and that criminal act was the casue of the “hate” !! We need to ask if something similar is happening here????????????)

The message claimed that one of the restaurant's employees was hit by the coronavirus known as COVID-19, leading officials to shut down the restaurant for 14 days.

"Vancouverites are already scared. Then you send out useless rumours and lies like this?" Yung told CBC News in Cantonese.

(Useless rumours?? Was an employee actually INFECTED?? Hate is one thing but avoiding a possible carrier of a dangerous disease is something else!! And we should ask if the restaurant was previously in financial trouble?? Is this a STUNT by somebody seeking aid??????????????)

Restaurant owner Lily Yung said she has lost 80 per cent of her business since a rumour about the virus COVID-19 started spreading on social media last weekend.

In the latest count from the World Health Organization, more than 73,000 people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Of those cases, 72,528 of them are in China. More than 1,800 people have died, three of them outside of China.

(The Chinese govt currently has over 780 MILLION people in a half assed sort of quarantine - people aee taken to football field sized auditoriums full of beds set in groups of 4 - with nothing but fabric covered office cubicles for privacy!! And they must share washroom facilities with MULTIPLE GROUPS and of course food is provided to them by people OUTSIDE the facility and who knows how many may be infected and passing on the virus in the food they serve???????????)

But in Canada, no one has died and only eight people have tested positive for the virus: five in B.C. and three in Ontario.

(No deaths yet thank GOD - but as we saw with SARS- govt is FREQUENTLY SLOPPY about maintaining quarantines that cost money and interfere with biz!!!!)

Health officials have repeatedly said the risk of contracting it in B.C. is very low.

(That`s nice - but the personal COST of contracting the virus is HUGE - with many Cdns being paycheque away from fiscal trouble - and MINIMUM TWO WEEKS REQUIRED for Wuhan Virus quarantine and if you are proven to have the virus - your quarantine period EXPANDS EXPONENTIALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Nothing in the rumour was true, but by the time a friend alerted her to the message on Saturday afternoon, it had gone viral.

(Ah yes- Cdns do not wish to TAKE CHANCES in spite of the cheery propaganda our LIE-beral leaders are spewing like demented manure spreaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Business was already down in general because of coronavirus fears, but on Sunday she noticed a sudden drop of about 80 per cent as customers called to cancel pricey banquet reservations.

It got so bad, she asked for special permission to post articles around the mall hoping to fight the lie.

"Very sad, so sad, because staff just lose the jobs," said Yung.

She says only 10 of her 20 kitchen staff are now working and servers have also had their hours slashed.

Yung doesn't know why someone may have targeted her business, but it's a question she hopes to have answered.

Fear possibly driving profit

On Monday, health officials pleaded with the Chinese community to trust official sources.

(EXCUSE ME?? Politicians are saying it is the CHINESE COMMUNITY that is staying away from the restaurant?? So the people WHO HAVE PALS AND FAMILY IN CHINA -and thus have inside information are the ones REACTING WITH GREATEST FEAR????????)

"Sometimes there are alternative agendas for misinformation," said federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu at a press conference in Vancouver's Chinese Cultural Centre.

(And LIE-berals expect their crap to reassure us?? After boasting of the screening at Cdn airports - that a WUHAN PATIENT BREEZED THROUGH - high fever an all - and the same dorks then told us airport screening does not work anyway??)

"People sometimes drive fear because ... they can drive a profit."

Hajdu and her provincial counterpart Adrian Dix, as well as Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart held a roundtable after many in the community said they had lost anywhere from 50 to 70 per cent of their business during the outbreak.

(And HOW MUCH OF THAT LOSS is due to RAIL BLOCKADES?? Thousands of Cdns are looking at temporary JOB LOSS while the LIE-beral govt “Do NOTHING BRIGADE” DITHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

All three levels of government asked the public to look to credible media sources and not to restrict social activities.

(How UNFORTUNATE that govt media sources are NOT SEEN AS CREDIBLE - but there IS a reason we call them LIE-berals!!!!!!!!

But one University of British Columbia professor who has studied Chinese politics and culture for decades says the message isn't getting through. Part of it, he says, could be due to a mistrust in government.

"For people who immigrated from mainland China, this could be inherited behaviour because after the Cultural Revolution there have been issues with mistrust with each other, within the community and with the government," said political science professor Yves Tiberghien.

(Ah - so LIE-berals ARE SUGGESTING it is the Chinese community reacting with fear - perhaps due to news reports from relatives in Wuhan???????????????)

That mistrust can make social media rumours appear more believable, particularly, he says, when they're reinforced by family in China surrounded by dire news about COVID-19.

(The only good news in this is that at least LIE-berals re not smeering white people “racists” just yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"The stories are very real," says Tiberghien. "You talk to your mom, mom is stuck in quarantine [in China], you talk to dad and he is stuck and very grumpy ... whereas for other Canadians they may not have that connection."

(Oh - so Chinese in Canada ARE GETTING GLOOMY REPORTS from relatives back home in Wuhan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

He says that can make it appear as though Canadian officials are downplaying the situation.

(LIE-berals told us they had everything UNDER CONTROL an clearly they DO NOT!! The quarantine facilities in Trenton Ont are filling up FAST with sick Cdns that are sucking up major quantities of RATIONED health care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

No matter the level of fear, Yung is hoping her story will encourage everyone to think twice before sharing any rumours online.

(Has the staff of the restaurant been tested?? And how reliable are the tests anyway since LIE-berals have been FORCED TO ADMIT that sick people can infect others -before they show symptoms!! A RIGID QUARANTINE OF ALL TRAVELLERS is the only real solution to end fear and rumour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
 

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Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases

OTTAWA -- The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle.

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigenous groups from British Columbia.

Some had wanted the top court to consider whether the Liberal cabinet violated the Species at Risk Act when it decided to approve the pipeline expansion a second time in June 2019, arguing the project would harm the highly endangered southern resident killer whales.

The Federal Court of Appeal had overturned cabinet's first approval of the pipeline in 2018, citing insufficient consultation with Indigenous Peoples and a failure to take the impacts on marine animals into account.

After another round of Indigenous consultations and a second look at marine impacts, cabinet gave a second green light, but the same Indigenous communities and environment groups that successfully challenged the approval in 2018, filed new appeals of the approval in 2019.

The Federal Court of Appeal heard -- dismissed last month -- appeals from Indigenous communities about whether there had been enough consultation, but had declined to hear arguments from the environment groups.

B.C. Nature, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, the Squamish First Nation and a group of four young people then asked the highest court to do it instead. These are the cases the Supreme Court chose not to hear.

As usual, the Supreme Court did not give any reasons for its decision released Thursday.

Misty MacDuffee, a conservation biologist and program director with Raincoast Conservation Foundation, said the legislation aimed at protecting at-risk species requires governments to ensure endangered populations are protected.

There are fewer than 75 southern resident killer whales left and MacDuffee said they would be harmed by the noise from the expected increase in oil tankers carrying diluted bitumen due to the expanded pipeline.

MacDuffee said there is currently no technology in existence that can reduce the impacts that noise from the boats would have on the whales, which means forging ahead with the pipeline is inconsistent with upholding the legislation.

"The effects have to be mitigated for the project to proceed and none of that has happened in Trans Mountain," MacDuffee said earlier this year.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/supreme-court-will-not-hear-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-appeal-cases-1.4840089
 

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spilledthebeer

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Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases

OTTAWA -- The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle.

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigenous groups from British Columbia.

Some had wanted the top court to consider whether the Liberal cabinet violated the Species at Risk Act when it decided to approve the pipeline expansion a second time in June 2019, arguing the project would harm the highly endangered southern resident killer whales.

The Federal Court of Appeal had overturned cabinet's first approval of the pipeline in 2018, citing insufficient consultation with Indigenous Peoples and a failure to take the impacts on marine animals into account.

After another round of Indigenous consultations and a second look at marine impacts, cabinet gave a second green light, but the same Indigenous communities and environment groups that successfully challenged the approval in 2018, filed new appeals of the approval in 2019.

The Federal Court of Appeal heard -- dismissed last month -- appeals from Indigenous communities about whether there had been enough consultation, but had declined to hear arguments from the environment groups.

B.C. Nature, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, the Squamish First Nation and a group of four young people then asked the highest court to do it instead. These are the cases the Supreme Court chose not to hear.

As usual, the Supreme Court did not give any reasons for its decision released Thursday.

Misty MacDuffee, a conservation biologist and program director with Raincoast Conservation Foundation, said the legislation aimed at protecting at-risk species requires governments to ensure endangered populations are protected.

There are fewer than 75 southern resident killer whales left and MacDuffee said they would be harmed by the noise from the expected increase in oil tankers carrying diluted bitumen due to the expanded pipeline.

MacDuffee said there is currently no technology in existence that can reduce the impacts that noise from the boats would have on the whales, which means forging ahead with the pipeline is inconsistent with upholding the legislation.

"The effects have to be mitigated for the project to proceed and none of that has happened in Trans Mountain," MacDuffee said earlier this year.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/supreme-court-will-not-hear-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-appeal-cases-1.4840089










THOSE SUPREME COURT JERK OFFS ARE SMARTER THAN THEY LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is the job of govt to govern!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We now know that ONLY A RADICAL MINORITY is blockading roads and rail lines.................................


and ultimately it is up to govt to INSIST on both rule of law and Majority Rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Supreme Court Monkeys only interpret the laws the elected poobahs write!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Decapoda

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I'm wondering if part of the increased cost is due to unnecessary delays!


....what part of the increased cost? What part?? LOL!!

What government project has ever cost less than private? Only a mindless, moronic,Trudeau cheerleading simp would think this thing wasn't going to cost us a shit-ton once fuknuts took it over. I said back at the beginning of 2018 this thing would end up costing at least 12 billion dollars if the Government took it over, and that it would end up being perpetually delayed or outright cancelled.....

May 2018:
Really, what does this solve? The Federal Government approved it, the national regulating body approved it, the Liberals declared it in the national interest and had complete and total authority to ensure it's construction...all while Kinder Morgan was still in charge and it's investors were paying the bill. The reason they pulled out is because they needed assurance that Trudeau would do his job, exercise his authority, and eliminate the political barriers to getting it built. He couldn't do that.

Nothing has changed, BC is just as against the pipe as they were yesterday, the envrios and Tides Foundation is every bit as resolute in ensuring this project fails as they were yesterday. The only thing Trudeau did is spend 12 billion tax dollars to shift the monumental risk from private corporate investors to the Canadian taxpayer. Nothing more!


Without factoring in carbon tax...or government administration and inherent inefficiency, or inflation due to holdups and project schedule extension, or further environmental protest delay costs and security, or future stakeholder management (which Trudeau has already shown his complete incompetence in managing), or loss of intrinsic value (resale to private sector at a loss)...

And this doesn't even account for lost resource revenue from not moving product through the new pipe due to at minimum a year's delay.



Gender impact studies, endless indigenous consultations, stalling, intentional obfuscation, introduction of anti-pipeline legislation, anti-tanker legislation, anti-resource development legislation, encouragement of rail blockades, on and on and on.... This was Trudeau's play all along...throw every conceivable roadblock in the way in an effort to kill any hope from developers or Canadians as a whole, then boldly declare that it wasn't his fault and that there is no interest in continuing. This is EXACTLY the same fukking game he just finished playing with Teck...EXACTLY!! He's as predictable as they come, and the only people who are fooled and cheer this bullshit on are moronic idiots like Hoid et al who get off on painstakingly setting up the game 100% to fail then naively blame everything and everyone else when it does. It's sleezy, slimy, morally dishonest and completely disingenuous...it's exactly what we have for a leader.
 

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....what part of the increased cost? What part?? LOL!!

What government project has ever cost less than private? Only a mindless, moronic,Trudeau cheerleading simp would think this thing wasn't going to cost us a shit-ton once fuknuts took it over. I said back at the beginning of 2018 this thing would end up costing at least 12 billion dollars if the Government took it over, and that it would end up being perpetually delayed or outright cancelled.....

May 2018:

Gender impact studies, endless indigenous consultations, stalling, intentional obfuscation, introduction of anti-pipeline legislation, anti-tanker legislation, anti-resource development legislation, encouragement of rail blockades, on and on and on.... This was Trudeau's play all along...throw every conceivable roadblock in the way in an effort to kill any hope from developers or Canadians as a whole, then boldly declare that it wasn't his fault and that there is no interest in continuing. This is EXACTLY the same fukking game he just finished playing with Teck...EXACTLY!! He's as predictable as they come, and the only people who are fooled and cheer this bullshit on are moronic idiots like Hoid et al who get off on painstakingly setting up the game 100% to fail then naively blame everything and everyone else when it does. It's sleezy, slimy, morally dishonest and completely disingenuous...it's exactly what we have for a leader.


I heartily concur, Dec though I might add a couple of points to the list of liberal efforts to stop the line and that is their monetary support for outside interests protesting pipelines and a government bought media that goose-steps to the tune of the liberals with nary a voice for the pro-side.