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9 f" {7 c+ E# B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-collapse5 O g$ n) F8 j; K1 I9 N
& K _6 p9 c" m+ K( WBraid: Trudeau sees the sunny side of pipeline collapse- x4 |4 ~, T. K
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Oh, 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.: T/ M: T* k }" ]4 v
4 r& M/ i7 ]" Y2 T4 }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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He 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.1 ]! | r/ S" H8 z( f
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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.”
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" h' W# B& r3 Y: F; p. @' VActually, the court ruled on a Trudeau government approach that was never going to work.+ N9 L7 @& M) f( w. P4 P: L
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But the court also agrees with Trudeau on the need for rigour, it seems.
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" b& k' k, k- P7 o/ m3 F/ ~“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.”
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% c7 U, N5 w* v: n, iPremier 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.”' E( I8 e ^2 M' n. T. F
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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.
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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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" u4 P0 g) b: ]Now it’s nothing. The approval process even overturned a federal cabinet order. The workers will be going home, the contractors packing up.) s" Q2 G' f d0 B6 C: Q
6 m# ^4 R: N) e' ]6 uGetting 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.6 m- Z8 |* ]0 f8 x/ ]
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But Trudeau paints it as a simple matter of improving consultation and looking into maritime transportation.
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Trudeau also says that if Ottawa hadn’t bought the project, it would be dead today.
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6 v8 Q4 V& z# BActually, if Ottawa hadn’t purchased it for $4.5 billion in May, the assets would now be a much better buy.1 A- c1 n* j+ ~" s, x
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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.
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“They could have acquired the pipeline for a lower price than they paid a few months ago. There was no downside in waiting.+ H: P: @& G. q# d1 D7 S* B6 v
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“If the expansion had been approved, Kinder Morgan shareholders would have paid for the expansion — not Canadian taxpayers.”
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