The Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion has been approved but the only people likely to get work on the project in the near future will be the lawyers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the approval surrounded by cabinet ministers late Tuesday afternoon. He claimed that Trans Mountain Canada, the federal entity that now owns the pipeline, will start getting things moving this construction season.
“We have been assured by the company that their plan is to start construction this summer,” Trudeau said.
“There are still a number of immediate steps to do in terms of permitting but the plan is to have shovels in the ground this summer.”
And yet when the Trudeau government announced their purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline for $4.5 billion on May 29, 2018, they said one of the reasons was to ensure there was construction that summer.
“To guarantee the summer construction season for the workers who are counting on it,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau said more than a year ago.
Of course that construction season passed with nothing done to build the pipeline and now we are into another lost construction season.
The company may have the federal go ahead but still needs to make sure that they have permits now from two provincial governments, from the feds as well plus all of the municipalities the pipeline will run through, some that are hostile to the project.
That process, according to the company, will take weeks if not months.
And that is before the lawsuits start.
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See Also:
(1) Trudeau risks Canada’s breakup over Liberal energy policies
(2) Oilpatch welcomes Trans Mountain approval, but ‘not ready to do a victory celebration’
(4) Disappointed Horgan says B.C. will continue with Trans Mountain pipeline fight
I can’t even remember the last time I have heard am ordinary voting conservative express any confidence what so ever in Cheeky McSmiley. Gawd the man is unimpressive. Besides being politically neutered Scheer is liberal light and if he by any stretch of the imagination was a true conservative then he’s a damn coward for being afraid to publicly pound those principles home to Canadians. If Scheer manages to win in October it will not be because of conservative policies/principles he unabashedly supports and pledges to defend. It will be simply because he is not Trudeau. Great, just bloody great. The exact opposite to what Canada desperately needs.