{"id":47227,"date":"2019-07-15T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47227"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:01:41","slug":"have-we-got-a-deal-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47227","title":{"rendered":"Have we got a deal for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pipes-ready-to-go.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climatezone.org\/2019\/07\/have-i-got-a-deal-for-you\/\">Have we got a deal for you!<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered an interesting\u00a0 deal for Canadians. In return for agreeing to the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMEX) pipeline, his government has offered to invest all the profits from the operation of the pipeline into clean energy projects. Is this a deal we should accept?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even acknowledging the pipeline\u2019s significant negative impacts on indigenous peoples\u2019 livelihoods and marine ecosystems (including adverse effects to the Southern resident killer whale\u2013an endangered species), the Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) after its last review concluded once again that the TMEX is \u2018in the public interest\u2019.\u00a0<strong>So if the new pipeline is in the public interest and we get lots of money invested in renewable energy isn\u2019t this a win-win situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so fast..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The review conducted by the NEB does not take into account the additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would be generated by the ramped-up production from the oil sands deposits enabled by the increased capacity provided by the new pipeline. In the NEB\u2019s opinion: \u201c<em>it did not consider that there<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0was a necessary connection between the Project and upstream production or downstream use.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an extraordinary and astonishing statement. The additional pipeline capacity will result in a significant rise in oil sands production and increase west coast tanker traffic from 5 to 34 vessels a month. How are these direct effects not considered to be a \u201cconnection\u201d to the Project?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TMEX pipeline will substantially increase Canada\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the Liberal government has declared a climate emergency and is nowhere near on track to meeting its emission targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we got a deal for you!\u00a0 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered an interesting\u00a0 deal for Canadians. In return for agreeing to the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMEX) pipeline, his government has offered to invest all the profits from the operation of the pipeline into clean energy projects. Is this a deal [&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":[26269,141,26268,1115,20949,26267],"class_list":["post-47227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-canadian-national-energy-board","tag-climate-change","tag-cneb","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-martin-bush","tag-tmex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227","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=47227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47228,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227\/revisions\/47228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}