{"id":11769,"date":"2015-09-03T07:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11769"},"modified":"2015-09-03T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:19:43","slug":"prime-minister-harpers-inaction-on-climate-killed-the-keystone-xl-oilsands-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11769","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Harper\u2019s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Harper\u2019s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>pipeline this fall, Canada\u2019s oil industry is looking for someone to\u00a0blame.<\/p>\n

The National Post\u2019s Claudia Cattaneo\u00a0wrote last week<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cmany Canadians \u2026 would see Obama\u2019s fatal stab as a betrayal by a close friend and ally\u201d and that others \u201cwould see it as the product of failure by Stephen Harper\u2019s Conservative government to come up with a climate change\u00a0plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latter is the more logical conclusion. Obama has made his decision-making criteria clear: he won\u2019t approve the pipeline if it exacerbates the problem of carbon\u00a0pollution.<\/p>\n

Even the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0State Department\u2019s very conservative analysis states the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0pipeline would \u201csubstantially increase oilsands expansion and related emissions.\u201d The\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency has agreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Canada\u2019s energy reviews take into account \u201cupstream benefits\u201d \u2014 such as jobs created in the oilsands sector as a result of pipelines \u2014 they don\u2019t even consider the upstream environmental impacts created by the expansion of the\u00a0oilsands.<\/p>\n

For all the bluster and finger-pointing, there\u2019s no covering up the fact that Canada\u2019s record on climate change is one of broken\u00a0promises.<\/p>\n

Oil and Gas Regulations Promised Since\u00a02006<\/h3>\n

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised since 2006 that he\u2019ll\u00a0regulate oil and gas emissions<\/a>. Those regulations still haven\u2019t materialized nearly a decade later \u2014and there\u2019s only one person to blame for\u00a0that.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Harper has taken the approach that Canada can\u2019t regulate its oil and gas sector unless the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0does too. This argument is fundamentally\u00a0flawed.<\/p>\n

First, it presumes that Canada should outsource its climate policy to another country. On issues from health care to acid rain, Canada has moved independently from the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0and prospered as a\u00a0result.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Harper\u2019s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline With\u00a0U.S.\u00a0President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone\u00a0XLpipeline this fall, Canada\u2019s oil industry is looking for someone to\u00a0blame. The National Post\u2019s Claudia Cattaneo\u00a0wrote last week\u00a0that \u201cmany Canadians \u2026 would see Obama\u2019s fatal stab as a betrayal by a close friend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3306,103,141,5317,7214,1470,1030,749,2344],"class_list":["post-11769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-barack-obama","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-desmog-blog","tag-desmog-canada","tag-epa","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-stephen-harper","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}