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诺特利2018年9月5号在和小土豆面谈中要求小土豆立法。白纸黑字有图片。
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/p ... f-pipeline-collapse
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Braid: Trudeau sees the sunny side of pipeline collapse
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, o$ k' ]% U) ?. o' ROh, so that’s it. The pipeline rejection is just a bump in the road. In fact, you could even see it as proof of just how robust the Liberal approval process is.8 v0 i( [9 `" [9 C5 N4 \3 L9 ?
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That’s what a person might think, listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, as he actually tried to turn this mess into an affirmation of his ideals.
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& {, S/ s) K5 z9 N! p$ XHe said he’s “disappointed” with the ruling, mind you. He knows it “really hurt” Alberta. Ottawa will do better and meet the Federal Court of Appeal’s concerns.
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At one point, he slammed the Harper government’s approach and said “the court has just confirmed that was never going to work.”+ k! c& f5 U3 I; y# r ~
6 K8 y: q: N) H' O5 y. z+ qActually, the court ruled on a Trudeau government approach that was never going to work.
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* _$ x, B# e# p* W( I/ XBut the court also agrees with Trudeau on the need for rigour, it seems.
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“This is something I’ve been saying for a long time, that the only way to get projects built in this country is to do them responsibly.”2 t( Z- q/ o, f2 e1 q
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Premier Rachel Notley, distancing herself from her favourite ally, demands a legislative cannonade, a federal bill to reassert the former approval. She decries the “regulatory merry-go-round that isn’t going to help anybody.”
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The job now is to get the project back to where it was last Wednesday, before the court ruling came down.* v# K) C, {% p& V
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It had been signed and sealed. This was an officially approved interprovincial pipeline, ramping up to full construction.
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, F! R1 y& t: L* c0 KNow it’s nothing. The approval process even overturned a federal cabinet order. The workers will be going home, the contractors packing up.
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5 C* a$ m. e. tGetting back to “YES” (that is, last Wednesday) will take time and money. And nobody knows what further legal horrors might await, even after another approval.
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But Trudeau paints it as a simple matter of improving consultation and looking into maritime transportation.
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* k7 _' ]; A2 \0 C5 dTrudeau also says that if Ottawa hadn’t bought the project, it would be dead today.
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$ w, Z* w( Q: n( I) {0 r3 P% G. ?Actually, if Ottawa hadn’t purchased it for $4.5 billion in May, the assets would now be a much better buy.
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“Why didn’t the federal government wait until after the ruling?” retired oil and gas analyst Gordon Tait asks in an email.% Z6 G* O% [/ ?" A+ i9 V
& {* f4 b' Q+ K) c/ ]“They could have acquired the pipeline for a lower price than they paid a few months ago. There was no downside in waiting.6 a4 Q5 h5 ]/ h- [
# b6 |: [4 l$ E! O' K; s“If the expansion had been approved, Kinder Morgan shareholders would have paid for the expansion — not Canadian taxpayers.”. w. z7 f' L1 y! ~/ G9 P7 V
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