{"id":46763,"date":"2019-06-19T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:18:12","slug":"trudeau-declared-a-climate-crisis-then-backed-trans-mountain-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46763","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau Declared a Climate Crisis, then Backed Trans Mountain Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/06\/18\/Opponents-Slam-Approval-Trans-Mountain-Expansion-Catastrophic\/\">Trudeau Declared a Climate Crisis, then Backed Trans Mountain Again<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opponents slam approval of potentially \u2018catastrophic\u2019 pipeline expansion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/06\/18\/21292207.jpg\" alt=\"21292207.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces the second approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Ottawa with fellow cabinet ministers. \u2018We listened to community concerns and we are acting on community ideas.\u2019&nbsp;Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, Canadian Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day after declaring a \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d the federal government approved for the second time the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline that it now owns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In announcing cabinet\u2019s decision, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said fighting climate change and growing the economy are complementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to create wealth today so we can invest in the future,\u201d he said. \u201cThis project has the potential to create thousands of solid middle class jobs for Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents, including the B.C. government, slammed the decision and justification, saying the project puts the coast at risk, as well as tens of thousands of jobs that depend on a clean environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The existing pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia has capacity to carry 300,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products a day. The $7.4-billion expansion project would triple that.<a href=\"http:\/\/support.thetyee.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The&nbsp;Tyee&nbsp;is&nbsp;supported by&nbsp;readers&nbsp;like&nbsp;you&nbsp;Join us and grow independent&nbsp;media in&nbsp;Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government approved the pipeline expansion in 2016, but a Federal Court of Appeal ruling overturned the approval, finding that the government failed to adequately consult First Nations and that the National Energy Board\u2019s review of the project should have considered tanker traffic and the threat to southern resident killer whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year ago, the federal government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2018\/05\/29\/BC-Legal-Oppose-Pipeline-Federal-Purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spent $4.5 billion<\/a>&nbsp;to buy the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline and take over the expansion project from Texas company Kinder Morgan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudeau Declared a Climate Crisis, then Backed Trans Mountain Again Opponents slam approval of potentially \u2018catastrophic\u2019 pipeline expansion. A day after declaring a \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d the federal government approved for the second time the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline that it now owns.&nbsp; In announcing cabinet\u2019s decision, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said fighting climate [&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":[3,4],"tags":[11645,94,1053,5499,8054],"class_list":["post-46763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-crisis","tag-the-tyee","tag-transmountain-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763","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=46763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46764,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions\/46764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}