Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies

Shocking.

Meanwhile all my conservative albertan friends call him an environmentalist and a communist. I fucking hate it.

My favourite is the ‘carve out’ to just ignore the tanker ban bill.

Its not a carve out if you’re going to do to the exact thing the bill was put in place for.

Ah, the gift of understatement.

I think this is a gambit predicated on:

1. There is no private proponent (and still won't be)
2. This will rip the UCP apart, and NDP will probably not want to push for a bitumen pipeline to the NW coast

But it could also just be what it is at face value, we'll see I guess.

In exchange for climate policies that never would have flown on their own in Alberta, and with concessions predicated on conditions that probably will never happen.

For once I can just full-thoatedly agree with Carney.