{"id":2466,"date":"2014-12-04T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2014-12-04T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:06:20","slug":"political-will-pushing-energy-east-pipeline-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Political Will Pushing Energy East Pipeline In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/Political-Will-Pushing-Energy-East-Pipeline-In-Canada.html\">Political Will Pushing Energy East Pipeline In Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #393939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\">Alberta Premier Jim Prentice met his Ontario peer Kathleen Wynne Wednesday as he presses for approval of TransCanada\u2019s (NYSE, TSE:TRP) proposed Energy East pipeline, which would pass through the Central Canadian province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">After their first face-to-face meeting they sounded conciliatory, saying they consider the controversial $12 billion project as a \u201cnation-building\u201d exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard released last month a list of\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/quebec-sets-conditions-for-transcanada-as-poll-shows-falling-support-for-pipeline-72886\/\">seven conditions for the proposed pipeline<\/a>, which would carry western crude to refineries located on the opposite side of the country. The most important of them is the potential impact of the pipeline on the environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But Wynne,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1705428\/ontario-and-alberta-premiers-meet-to-discuss-controversial-oilsands-pipeline\/\">reports Canadian Press<\/a>, says her concerns about the pipeline&#8217;s contribution to climate change are limited to greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario and in Quebec from the pipeline project itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">She added that the seven principles do not extend to \u201cso-called upstream emissions resulting from getting the crude out of the ground, refining and burning it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Will Pushing Energy East Pipeline In Canada Alberta Premier Jim Prentice met his Ontario peer Kathleen Wynne Wednesday as he presses for approval of TransCanada\u2019s (NYSE, TSE:TRP) proposed Energy East pipeline, which would pass through the Central Canadian province. After their first face-to-face meeting they sounded conciliatory, saying they consider the controversial $12 billion [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[141,1514,271,1378,1379],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-east-pipeline","tag-environment-2","tag-ontario","tag-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}