B.C. NDP to Joint Review Panel: Risks of Enbridge pipeline outweigh benefits

If you think about it, all the miles of BC coast why would these pro jectspropose to jam through pipelines into the Great Bear Rainforest and the Greenest City? A cynic would almost think a threaten and rescue political strategy is being applied. The good old Hegellian dialectic of Problem Reaction Solution. Problem: Piping dirty oil through world renowned protected area and Greenest City. Reaction: A great deal of pushback and raised profile for ENGOS Solution: Alternate routes while creating political heros who stopped these projects and politicians who listened and responded.

Will both Kinder Morgan and NGP be stopped by political players wishing to make political gain only to see the routes altered, a renewed Keystone and the West East play to the coast come to fruition?

Only time will tell. Lets not forget the current pipeline capacity is good for 6 more years at current rates of production, in addition to accomodating considerable growth.

As it stands the entire debate has been swallowed by high profile disputes, most of which have little to do with actually preventing any further capacity to escalate tar sands prodcution and export or addressing real economic issues, If we must allow for escalated capacity, lets at least do it right and in the interests of Canadians. To date,we have seen little if any discussion about royalties, no decreased subsidies, nothing on value added development, and not a peep on production sharing agreements, guaranteed revenue streams, number of real jobs, additional refining capacity, the list goes on and on, instead we are fed a constant diet about how ENGOs are being attacked and what Tzep is doing to save us.

People interested in impacting the Tar Sands agenda need to look deeper than the high profile pipeline proposals and consider the big picture while at the same time thinking seriously about the economics of this thing.