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The issue is integration with the US and as much as I hate fossil fuels and want us all off asap, until we don't need it, we are at a strategic risk because we can't independently power ourselves coast to coast. Why canada imports oil at all should be viewed as a problem after the middle east trouble.
Even Quebec, who have the easiest time fully electrifying still have massive fossil fuel consumption. If they aren't ready, no one else is even close.
Canada has to amp up full electrictrification efforts, but that will take decades. In the mean time we need to protect our energy supplies for domestic consumption and diversify our customer base for exports.
Edit: This also includes supporting europe's strategic needs. The must get off fossil fuels. Until they do, they need to stop being a customer of Russia.
Talk about spin!
I'm skeptical of their conclusion given the current sentiment towards the US from Canadians, its more likely that people would rather we export elsewhere. As in
When asked if they would support [getting] Canadian resources to markets other than the US, 7 in 10 Canadians said they approve.
Making these findings less about pipeline approval and more about resource export diversification.
It will be interesting to see if the rest of the media start talking positively about pipelines in the coming months.
AB to ON might make sense. Churchill MB seems to want one. Expanding capacity of TMX might make sense if westward demand really is there (current TMX is only at rated capacity due to the Hormuz shock, and IMO the future doesn't seem to call for that much more crude oil).
The north coast pipeline makes no sense to me at all.
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