Trudeau's Canada is blocking and delaying pipelines and denying permits to build needed energy infrastructure
TC Energy, Company I We once called Trans Canada to build a new pipeline. That's good news.
The bad news is that it's in Mexico, not Canada.
The company last Thursday announced a contract for his US$4.5 billion ($5.8 billion) natural gas pipeline to supply the central and southeastern regions of Mexico. The 715-kilometer offshore Southeast Gateway pipeline is expected to begin operations in 2025.
TC Energy is doing in Mexico what is nearly impossible in Canada. It's about building energy infrastructure. The
Coastal Gaslink project is a 670-kilometer project from Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Across the Rockies to Kitimat was first proposed ten years ago. Approvals from indigenous partners along the route were obtained in 2014-2015. The government approved the project in 2016. Construction is more than half complete and due next year, more than a decade after it was first proposed.
At least the project will move forward.
In 2017, the company canceled the Energy East pipeline project that was to transport oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan to ports and refineries in New Brunswick. This was seen as a way to replace Saudi oil imported into eastern Canada with Canadian oil, giving producers another export route independent of the United States.
The company killed Energy East due to conditions imposed by the Trudeau government requiring the company to account forupstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions. This is all emissions when the product is removed from the ground and when the final product is used.
The National Energy Commission had never imposed such a condition, nor did it on other projects that Trudeau liberals supported at the time, such as the Energy Saguenay. rice field. The project has also been criticized by Quebec politicians, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adopting the term "social license".
The Trudeau government also canceled his Northern Gateway pipeline project in 2016, a year after his inauguration, and made a ten-year deal with a liquefied natural gas export terminal. Delayed or imposed obstacles on several proposals. It's on both the east and west coasts.
Trudeau supporters cite the government's purchase of the Transmountain Pipeline as evidence that they are not against the oil and gas industry, but since the 2018 purchase, The project is stalled. The project may be ready. It was due by next year but has been postponed several times,a new report from the Congressional Budget Officer shows that the government has failed this project so badly that taxpayers are going to lose money on it. denies permission to build the energy infrastructure it needs. Funding Putin's invasion of Russia, as permission was granted to ship turbines to Germany to power Russia's Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system, unless outside of Canada.
European allies have asked for help with energy. The Trudeau government's response has not been to speed up the process of safely obtaining clean, green Canadian natural gas to replace Russian products. It's talking about the need to move away from oil and gas to meet Canada's climate goals.
We are a long way from ending the use of oil and gas, and natural gas is a much cleaner source of energy than oil. Both are abundant in Canada, and approving export terminals on the West Coast could help countries like China and India move away from coal, supplying Canada itself and much of the world.
That's not happening.
This is why companies like TC Energy are contracting in Mexico, building in Mexico, and not investing in Canada like they used to. The Trudeau government made it clear they were not welcome here.
bllley@postmedia.com
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