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Globe says Enbridge has Prentice to make Gateway happen

2014-09-10 05:56 ET - In the News

The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Sept. 10, edition that Jim Prentice has worked for years to earn the trust of the energy industry and Canada's first nations. The Globe's Carrie Tait writes that now, as Alberta's next premier, he has to figure out how to get those camps to trust each other. Mr. Prentice won over some first nations groups in Alberta and B.C. with his support for their rights and his stance that regulatory approvals are not enough to secure Enbridge's right to build its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. He has said first nations must be on board with the project first. In 2011 he said, "One of the great public policy failures in Canadian history was the failure to actually execute land claim treaties and, in a sense, titlement, in British Columbia over of course of the last 150 years." Mr. Prentice was then addressing the difficulties Gateway faces. "The reality on the ground is that the constitutional and legal position of the first nations is very strong." Recently, Mr. Prentice argued he was the candidate who could make the pipeline happen. Now, The Globe says, Mr. Prentice must show how he plans to move the stalled pipeline plan forward.

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