The Pipeline Lie: West Coast Oil Pipeline to be Paid for by You via Federal & Alberta Governments

The recent electric announcements – with NO new dollar figures attached – are a trick meant to keep you complacent about a pipeline you will pay for. The Federal Government is going to waste tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars on a new oil pipeline that will be almost entirely billed to the public, instead of it being private as was promised. Albertans did not want a pipeline to be publicly financed nor for climate policies to be cut – in fact Albertans oppose subsidies and climate policy cuts according to multiple different polls. 

The Environment in Canada Podcast Video Episode 111 on the plan for a new west coast oil pipeline by the Federal and Alberta Governments. You can listen to the episode on The Harbinger Media Network, IHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, watch it on Spotify or YouTube, or watch it on our website below:

This decision is not about ‘national unity’ and will only encourage bad actors to get louder by showing them it gets them what they want – as we outline. As Canadians struggle with extreme heat, wildfires, flooding, and storms this decision to waste public money on a pipeline is also morally wrong.

Then we share an earlier interview we recorded a while ago with Markham Hislop of Energi Media which adds a lot of the context to the recent announcement.

Find sources and ways to take action for today’s episode in our newsletter here.

Check out Energi Media on YouTube here.

See the Pembina Institute’s response to the announcement:.

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