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"Like all major rivers winding through the country, Canada’s most controversial
oil pipeline is destined for the ocean.
The Trans Mountain pipeline crosses two provinces, threads a national park in
the Rocky Mountains, dips underneath bodies of water and passes through dozens
of First Nations communities before terminating at a sprawling oil storage
facility on the verdant shores of the Pacific.
After a decade of fierce protests, cost overruns and construction delays, oil
started flowing at the beginning of May, but there was no grand ceremony or
ribbon-cutting. Instead, a China-bound Aframax tanker named Dubai Angel
departed with 550,000 barrels of diluted bitumen to be sold to global markets.
In the coming years, the megaproject will move nearly 900,000 barrels every
day. The number of tankers will surge sevenfold.
When Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, he touted his government’s climate
credentials on the world stage. “Canada is back, my friends,” he told delegates
at the Paris climate summit. “We’re here to help.” His government rolled out a
nationwide carbon tax (or as the then environment minister Catherine McKenna
called it, a “price on pollution”).
But in the years since, Canada remains the only G7 nation to emit greenhouse
gases far above its 1990 levels – while now also planning to extract and export
record volumes of oil.
The pipeline itself has become emblematic of a Canadian contradiction: promises
of strong climate action, coupled with billions in fossil fuel investments –
and, critics say, massive government subsidies to the oil industry at a moment
when the planet needs to move away from fossil fuels."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
