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" k) \% f! @/ J9 x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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' h3 B9 C7 P I( c# v- v c6 B) phttps://calgaryherald.com/news/p ... f-pipeline-collapse s! O# ]5 M& _! {
* h3 Q8 i8 Z! j3 F" n' J3 ]Braid: Trudeau sees the sunny side of pipeline collapse
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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.$ W6 D' u- P+ X2 b- S+ U
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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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9 W' P! S) ?4 {8 r) y9 e3 ZHe 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.4 ?7 _' I! N: Z
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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.”4 B4 ?" w8 D. j( n: E; l8 R' R
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Actually, the court ruled on a Trudeau government approach that was never going to work.$ }0 W' j1 `1 N+ I& i
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But the court also agrees with Trudeau on the need for rigour, it seems.; P4 D2 {% d |
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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.” Z* |) b( W: k# m# G- r. Y) @0 s' v
; F9 p1 ?2 ]9 a( h' c' 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.”% w+ Z M/ i* j$ p6 Z' 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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# a, ?/ x# h) `2 E2 m/ IIt had been signed and sealed. This was an officially approved interprovincial pipeline, ramping up to full construction.0 R4 ]# ?3 D- S c9 \
% U& w& N* J8 V0 n: eNow it’s nothing. The approval process even overturned a federal cabinet order. The workers will be going home, the contractors packing up.6 p1 ^/ t! M" ]+ s
, f; W9 P) u1 FGetting 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.% g+ V" A- s$ s7 l5 g/ b, S
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But Trudeau paints it as a simple matter of improving consultation and looking into maritime transportation.; s# k7 y% @& |8 A( |
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Trudeau also says that if Ottawa hadn’t bought the project, it would be dead today.
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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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2 d2 j- x" [8 n# U“Why didn’t the federal government wait until after the ruling?” retired oil and gas analyst Gordon Tait asks in an email.. d/ _5 b! J6 x) E: w1 Z
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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.5 t( J8 `( X1 J5 N& U, h
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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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