The Financial Post reports in its Saturday, Nov. 29, edition that a majority of Canadians support an oil pipeline from Alberta to Northern British Columbia, but support is weaker in the affected province, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll.
The Post's Gigi Suhanic writes that 60 per cent of people across the country back the hypothetical project, according to poll results released Thursday just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that includes an agreement designed to clear the way for more of Alberta's oil to make it to the coast and on to Asian markets via a one-million-barrel-per-day conduit.
A quarter of the approximately 1,800 people polled by Angus Reid on Nov. 26 and 27 said they opposed the idea of a pipeline while the remaining 15 per cent said they did not know or had no opinion on the issue.
B.C. Premier David Eby warned the proposed pipeline should not become an "energy vampire" and potentially draw financial resources away from other projects.
Still, on the face of it, 53 per cent of people in B.C. support the pipeline while 37 per cent do not.
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