How this $25 billion pipeline secures Canada's independence - CaspianReport

[TexasTowelie]

Amid #Trump’s rhetoric, there is a growing push to expand #Canada’s pipeline network, with #EnergyEast and #NorthernGateway as key projects that can secure its economic and political interests.

[Crowman2009]

1. I would rather Canada or any country spend more on a renewable energy infrastructure.

Regardless of which nation, it's still toxic sludge that will spill if a pipeline breaks down. Especially if it's from corrosive oil shale.

[applegrove]

4. Tar sands.

[Magoo48]

2. What I fight for is our land. And this land ain't worth a shit if it's too toxic to live on.

I am an environmentalist before I am anything else.

[modrepub]

3. This Would Be A Knee Jerk Reaction

This is a huge investment. Large NG cracking plants are on the order $10B and need a lot of government subsidies to make them economical given the plants could take up to a decade to build (and there's some uncertainty if they'd be profitable that far out in the future). Building pipelines this long is expensive and risky. Large government buy ins would be needed with no guarantee that this would be payed off on profits alone.

Which begs the question, would the resources necessary to bring this project to fruition be better spent on something else?