{"id":37479,"date":"2018-09-08T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37479"},"modified":"2018-09-08T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:06:09","slug":"petro-politics-and-trudeaus-sordid-pipeline-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37479","title":{"rendered":"Petro Politics and Trudeau\u2019s Sordid Pipeline Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2018\/09\/05\/Petro-Politics-Pipeline-Deal\/\">Petro Politics and Trudeau\u2019s Sordid Pipeline Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>Behind the spin, the reality is clear \u2014 taxpayers and the environment lose in the pipeline debacle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2018\/04\/17\/trudeau-notley.jpg\" alt=\"trudeau-notley.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are ignoring the law, economics and the environment in backing the Trans Mountain pipeline. <span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59936392@N05\/\">trumpvstrudeau<\/a>, Creative Commons licensed.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p><em>\u201cPetroleum is unique among the world\u2019s resources; it is more likely to be associated with conflict than any other commodity.\u201d <\/em>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu\/people\/Terry_L_Karl\">Terry Lynn Karl<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside hide-on-narrow-vp\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/aside\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/aside>\n<p>The debate about the Federal Court of Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca\/fca-caf\/decisions\/en\/343511\/1\/document.do\">decision<\/a> that killed the approval for the Trans Mountain $7.4-billion pipeline expansion speaks volumes about the oily state of Canadian politics.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Canada\u2019s die-hard petro republics, Alberta\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4420319\/notley-federal-climate-plan-trans-mountain-pipeline-court-ruling\/\">Rachel Notley<\/a> and Saskatchewan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarphoenix.com\/news\/local-news\/moe-urges-federal-government-to-appeal-trans-mountain-pipeline-decision\">Scott Moe<\/a>, predictably chaffed and frothed.<\/p>\n<p>They complained that they had been let down, billions of dollars are being lost and Parliament must address \u201cthis crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Business types lamented that the courts had dealt another blow to Canada\u2019s mining republic reputation by slowing down another noble megaproject promising jobs and prosperity \u2014 for China no less.<\/p>\n<p>The power of oil to construct narratives that bear little or no relation to the truth is a global phenomenon and, in Canada, a new boreal specialty. You can\u2019t find a more entitled political player than a petroleum exporter.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the media and Canadian politicians reduced the court decision to a dubious concession to pesky First Nations and environmentalists and another damned hurdle for \u201cthe national interest\u201d and the pursuit of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the truth or the reality.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the important issues that concerned citizens should now be contemplating in the wake of the historic decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petro Politics and Trudeau\u2019s Sordid Pipeline Deal Behind the spin, the reality is clear \u2014 taxpayers and the environment lose in the pipeline debacle. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are ignoring the law, economics and the environment in backing the Trans Mountain pipeline. Photo from trumpvstrudeau, Creative Commons licensed. \u201cPetroleum is [&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":[3,6],"tags":[1082,5549,103,4169,637,5499,5776],"class_list":["post-37479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-alberta","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-canada","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-politics","tag-the-tyee","tag-trans-mountain-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479","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=37479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37480,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479\/revisions\/37480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}