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The CBC Reports:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet colleagues signed off on two major pipelines today, projects that will pump nearly a million more barrels of oil a day from Alberta's oilsands to global markets, if they are constructed.
Ottawa gave the green light to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and Enbridge's Line 3, while it rejected Northern Gateway.
Trudeau also announced that the government would ban crude oil tankers along B.C.'s North Coast, promising legislation in the new year to implement a moratorium.
[...] The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency estimates that the new capacity will result in roughly 13.5 to 17 megatonnes of additional upstream greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Kinder-Morgan's Trans Mountain project is an expansion of an existing pipeline that runs between Edmonton, Alberta, and Burnaby (part of Greater Vancouver), British Columbia. The expansion will nearly triple the amount of product that can be shipped to just under 900,000 barrels/day.
Line 3 is a 1,660km pipeline that runs between Hardisty, Alberta and Superior, Wisconsin. The proposal by Enbridge is to replace the 34" pipeline with a 36" pipeline. Enbridge expects 760,000 barrels/day of light, medium and heavy crude to flow through the upgraded pipeline
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 30 2016, @11:43PM
At one point, though, Alberta had a huge surplus... then they started spending and spending.
Governments need to start being smarter.
But I agree about the equalisation payments: Ontario's money goes to Quebec too... I love it when their government of the day says "we'll separate!!!"
We say "go for it... look at the money we'd save just in not having to print everything in English AND French!" Bye!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday December 01 2016, @02:19AM
Ontario's money *used* to go to Quebec. Now. we get money from Alberta as well, or we certainly did for the past few years. Dalton McLyingPieceOfRatshit drove us into the ground, adding 35%+ teacher salary increases on top of a bad economy (I'm sure his wife being a teacher is not a conflict of interest). It'll be a whiel before Ontario is making enough money to consistently support Quebec again, I think