RE:RE:RE:RE:Feel free to discuss Justin Castreauwestcoastlogger wrote: Castreau painted himself into a corner when he brought in the tanker ban on the north coast and canned the Northern Gateway pipeline and enabled protestors to block and delay for years the Trans Mtn pipe. Kinder Morgan told him to take a hike and Trudy was forced to buy the project. 35B dollars later it was finally completed, when it shouldn't have cost us taxpayers a nickel. Typical Castreau. Bad, bad, management.
Logger inventing stuff again...The Tanker Exclusion Zone has been in force for FORTY YEARS!!! In 1985 the US and Canada agreed to keep tankers carrying more than 12,500T of oil 50 km away from the BC coast between the Alaska Panhandle and Juan de Fuca Strait. The present government made a 40 year bi-lateral agreement (for very valid reasons) a Canadian Law.
TMX is the ONLY oil pipeline that crosses the Rocky Mountains in ALL OF NORTH AMERICA...for good reason. It did end up costing 35B dollars. A pandemic and a one hundred year flood event along a good portion of it's route contributed to it's final cost. Tolls on the pipeline will bring in at least 1B a year for the next 50-60 years at least...not to mention the positive impact it will have for DECADES on the price realized by AB oil companies for their WCS oil.
The same objections leveled at TMX were raised by Conservatives in 1956 when the Liberals created the Trans Canada Pipeline Corp. and built the Mainline to carry Alberta gas to Eastern Canada.
Conservatives ran on stopping the pipeline and defeated the Liberals at the polls. Luckily for Alberta and the country the pipeline was too far along for Conservatives to stop it and it was eventually completed.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pipeline-debate
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