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Is Canada’s national interest best aligned with a Texas pipeline company? The suggestion of bailing out U.S.-based Kinder Morgan and investing tax dollars to access public assets in a sunset industry, while momentous questions of Canadian law are still before the courts, is nothing short of absurd.

Kinder Morgan and the province of Alberta have manufactured a crisis in which the goal is to pressure the federal government to force-feed British Columbians the Trans Mountain expansion. The putative emergency is also designed to pressure the courts and judges that have yet to rule on nine legal challenges to the project’s approval.

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The ensuing hysteria has drowned out pertinent facts and legitimate concerns with regard to the B.C. coast. Above the political clamour, what remains is this: 1) The expansion will push endangered killer whales closer to extinction and risk further declines in wild salmon populations already in crisis; 2) The mantra of “world class oil spill response, prevention and recovery,” is an empty platitude; and 3) The National Energy Board process leading to an affirmative recommendation, and subsequent approval by the federal cabinet, was not based on evidence or science, nor was it rigorous or fair.