Again, you're running with alarmist nonsense that's been spread on conservative blogs. You're a bunch of chicken littles whining about the sky falling because there's a process to hold companies accountable for destroying the environment and communities. If the reviews are too arduous for them, then their businesses aren't worth having here and not worth investing in. I don't subscribe to the nonsensical belief of having jobs at any cost, ignoring not only the vast amount of time and money the public spends cleaning up their messes, but the harm they cause to both people and the environment (which we spend even more money on fixing for them). If the reviews are too inconvenient for investors, then good. **** them.
Kinder-Morgan made 43 agreements with the First Nations tribes along the length of the project and did everything possible to get "buy-in" for the pipeline. The bands along the length of the pipeline signed on and are now disappointed that this isn't going ahead, because they were going to benefit from it. The benefits they were going to realize have now gone up in smoke because tribes that aren't even on the pipeline sued to stop it.
And as I posted earlier, if Vancouverites really cared about saving their orcas, stopping increased tanker traffic isn't enough. They need to drastically reduce the salmon fisheries, and they need to drastically reduce freighter and container ship traffic because other kinds of shipping are just as disruptive to the orcas as tankers are. The southern-resident orcas are well on their way to extinction, and tankers are only a small fraction of shipping in the area. But Vancouverites won't stand for more cuts to the commercial fishery, and they won't stand for having their port throttled back, because that would cost Vancouverites jobs, and Vancouverites are a bunch of hypocrites.
You say that complaints about this are just alarmism, but McKenna and Sohi are scrambling to get their departments to fix the approvals process, so obviously the government of Canada is at least a bit alarmed about this as well. Suncor has announced that there'll be no further oilsands development until pipeline capacity improves, so obviously they're somewhat alarmed. Similar projects in Saskatchewan are no doubt likewise going to be scaled back or dropped until our export capacity improves, so I imagine Saskatchewan residents are alarmed. Steel makers who were manufacturing pipeline are probably alarmed.
You still didn't say why you think anybody would be dumb enough to put their money into going through a process that even the government doesn't know how to navigate, or why anybody would put money into getting an approval that natives and environmentalists and NIMBYs get to file unlimited lawsuits until they get their way.
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