The Energy East pipeline project should be the biggest “no-brainer” pipeline of all those proposed across Canada.
Natural Resources
Alberta’s environmental performance, much like any other Canadian province, has been one of continuing environmental improvement.
Even if oil prices came roaring back, many environmentalists would not allow any additional growth in oilsand development.
Ninety-nine per cent of pipeline occurrences from 2003 to 2013 didn’t damage the environment.
The obvious strong influence of the environmental lobby on the policy positions of Democrat office-holders poses a huge hurdle for future North American energy integration through initiatives such as cross-border pipelines.
Mining exploration spending is tightening in Ontario. So where is the province's policy environment faltering?
It’s occasionally assumed that an environmentally sensitive approach is opposite that of a commercial approach—that ecological protection is necessarily at odds with ranching and farming.
Opponents of the oilsands and the Keystone XL pipeline present another dubious argument.
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