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“The Great Bear Rainforest is no place for a pipeline and the Douglas Channel is no place for oil tanker traffic,” Trudeau said of Northern Gateway.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who has made the case for new pipelines since her NDP government ousted the Progressive Conservatives from power, flew to Ottawa to meet Trudeau immediately following the announcement.

The decision on Trans Mountain and Line 3 was welcomed by Calgary’s oil patch. “At an operational level, it’s critically important becuase it gives us more takeaway capacity,” Ernst and Young’s Canadian oil and gas leader Barry Munro said. “At a strategic level, it’s bigger than that because it answers the question of, ‘do we have more than one market for our commodities?'”

At present, the vast majority of Canadian oil shipments are sent to the U.S., but Munro said the TransMountain pipeline would allow companies to send more domestic crude to overseas markets, including Asian markets.

The decisions announced Tuesday will result in hundreds of thousands of additional barrels of oil exported from Canada everyday, and should also help shrink or eliminate the discount domestic producers accept for their crude.

Kinder Morgan’s $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the most controversial of the decisions made Tuesday, would boost crude oil shipments from Alberta to B.C. by 590,000 barrels of oil per day.

Environmental activists, including at Stand.Earth, have vowed to protest the project’s construction with acts of civil disobedience. The line has also caused friction between mayors in Calgary and Edmonton, who support the line’s construction, and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who opposes it and has said Trans Mountain approvals will result in “protests like you’ve never seen before.”