Messages we held up to McKenna and the 50 - plus crowds in attendance read, «Reject Kinder Morgan» and «Climate leaders don't build pipelines.»
I am not telling you we shouldn't build pipelines.
Together, they will engage in a mass civil disobedience action in Ottawa to teach Trudeau (who self appointed himself Minister of Youth) the most basic lesson of climate science: climate leaders don't build pipelines.
That's why, on October 24th, I'll be heading to Ottawa with a hundred of my peers to speak a truth directly to power — climate leaders don't build pipelines.
The students marched from the University of Ottawa to Parliament Hill where they were arrested trying to cross police barricades towing an oversized chalkboard sporting climate science backing up their message for the Prime Minister — climate leaders don't build pipelines.
«Climate leaders don't build pipelines,» explained Sophie Birks, a Mcgill University student arrested at the action.
They admitted that the government doesn't build pipelines but said it must influence other governments to accept pipelines (but once again failed to suggest how this could be accomplished).
«Climate Leaders Don't Build Pipelines» read the banner hoisted by protesters on Parliament Hill last week.
The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or
not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.
And the tactics are tied to a demand: don't build the pipeline.
Champions of Keystone XL argue that it is essential to delivering jobs, oil and energy security, but the SEIS concluded that «
not building the pipeline would have almost no impact on jobs; on US oil supply; on heavy oil supply for Gulf Coast refineries; or even on the amount of oil sands extracted in Alberta.»
«If we don't build this pipeline, Canada will find another buyer.
It states that building or
not building the pipeline will have no significant impact on demand for heavy crude in the United States.
«You simply can't build a pipeline in the face of such opposition.
The problem is they hadn't built a pipeline.
As @Joel Owens said, it could very well be a needle in a haystack kind of deal... but couldn't you build a pipeline, and start sorting through all that hay?
Not exact matches
«We don't want these new projects to have to bear the burden of some of these (oil price) differentials,» he said, reiterating Suncor's commitment to
build no new major oilsands projects without new
pipelines.
The government is
not taking an equity stake in the
pipeline, and will
not have to pay anything if the
pipeline is
not built.
First, this is
not an equity stake in the
pipeline or a financial contribution, but a promise to pay for shipping on the
pipeline if it is
built.
Adding to the crunch, Kinder Morgan Canada paused work last month on its Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion, citing opposition in British Columbia, and said it would decide by May 31 on whether to go ahead with the
build or
not.
So, instead of fighting this battle in hindsight, we just said we are
not even going to have a natural gas
pipeline coming in to the factory, so we didn't even
build it.
It didn't help that Calgary - based TransCanada gave up trying to
build a
pipeline to New Brunswick from northern Alberta at about the same time.
But the handful of jobs it will create — it doesn't take many people to
build or run a
pipeline — pales in comparison to what Canada stands to gain.
You couldn't
build — I approved immediately — the two
pipelines, 48,000 jobs... KERNEN: Right.
«(This) does
not represent a specific position on the
pipeline itself... It just merely says that the benefits, and consequences, of
building that
pipeline should be thoroughly evaluated by experts and through this administrative process that has existed for decades.»
The project would employ a significant number of temporary construction workers during the
building phase, though
pipelines generally do
not require much labor to operate in the long term.
Trump said as recently as last week that Keystone and the Dakota Access
pipeline must use American steel «or we're
not building one.»
It's certainly the case that perfect foresight would have led to more
pipelines being
built to the coasts instead of to the Midwest in the late 2000s, but
not before that.
It is telling that when a Steyer - backed anti-Keystone ad aired on the night of Barack Obama's state of the union address, it was the Conservative party —
not TransCanada, that actually wants to
build the
pipeline — that responded with an ad of its own (and then, only online).
Regarding
building more refineries in Canada: How are you going to ship your products, since Canada does
not have a system of product
pipelines?
Not only are oil producers trying to back out from Alberta Clipper, but Enbridge itself has battled an effort by TransCanada Corp. to
build another major
pipeline, called Keystone XL, to export crude to the U.S..
Ultimately, though, the State Department finds that an increase in the amount of oil moved by rail will allow new oil sands production to come on - stream whether or
not new
pipelines are
built.
As I talk to Harbir Chhina [an executive vice-president at Cenovus], he's way more worried about huge shale plays in Texas than he is about
not getting a
pipeline built.
The latest installment in the Energy Institute's «Energy Accountability Series» asks the question: «What if
pipelines aren't
built into the Northeast?»
Indigenous leaders and grassroots British Columbians all over say they will
not allow this
pipeline to be
built.
Yes, there is a lot to loose if the
pipeline doesn't get
built, but there is more to loose if it does.
This means we may
not see a clear - cut standard for some time, but for the first time in years,
pipelines are being
built from modern viewers» eyeballs to advertising dollars.
Avoiding unnecessarily aggressive language is also smart legally as many watching the controversy believe Kinder Morgan's endgame is
not to
build its
pipeline, but to position itself for a massive damages claim under the investor - state provisions (Chapter 11) of NAFTA.
And don't get us started on getting
pipelines built.
KMI had been working for years to
build a financial firewall around its Canadian subsidiary and the risky and controversial Trans Mountain
pipeline, pledging to investors that it would
not use its own capital to
build the
pipeline.
From
pipelines to wind turbines — nearly no one wants these things
built near them and many people don't want them
built at all.
By
building export
pipelines and freeing stranded crude, will
not translate into savings at the pump in Canada either...
The company is required to
build a
pipeline into the St. Johns River because it doesn't meet color and freshwater standards for Rice Creek.
Fourth, the benefits to Canada's economy of a government - owned
pipeline will end up being far less than any current Kinder Morgan projections, for the simple reason that those projections do
not account for the additional cost taxpayers would now incur to
build it.
There is a strong possibility that one of the three
pipeline expansions (or perhaps two or three) may
not get
built.
Given that both Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have in part justified their climate policies on the basis that this
pipeline will be
built, the harder language is
not surprising.
Mr Trudeau's cabinet will make this decision without paying a lick of attention to blustery politicians like Brian Jean and Greg Clark because inter-provincial
pipeline projects are nation
building projects; they shouldn't pit one province against another no matter how much the boys want to strut their stuff in the media.
-- and one is inclined to retreat to one's bed with instructions
not to be disturbed until its all over and the
pipeline is either
built or killed.
They say they want to see the
pipeline built but their actions do
not reflect what they say and their actions speak louder than words.
Labour shortages in the construction sector imply that if the
pipeline is
not built the vast majority of workers would likely be working somewhere else.