The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that chances Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline will be built are nil.
A Globe editorial says Enbridge is the victim of politics. Even if cabinet approval had not been overturned, the
project still faced enormous hurdles. The native peoples who live
near the B.C. end of the pipeline, in Kitimat, are opposed
to it. For them, the risk of an oil spill to their livelihoods and their
way of life is too great to contemplate. Combined with Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau's promise to ban tanker traffic in the area
and his insistence on greater dialogue with native peoples, it is fairly
clear that his cabinet has little intention of ever approving
Gateway.
Canada, however, still needs a way to get
Alberta oil to new markets. The most efficient and safest
way to do that is via pipeline. The Globe says the best bet now is Kinder Morgan's
Trans Mountain project, which would bring Alberta crude to the
Port of Vancouver. The port is more than capable of safely handling the increased
tanker traffic.
With Gateway all but written off, the PM needs to demonstrate that a project critical to the
health of Canada's oil industry can get built in this country.
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