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atomickerEven setting aside the huge negative impacts on our climate, pipelines are terrible economic policy. The last one the Liberals built, <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a>, will lose <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> billions; 20 years from now, it will still be billions in the red.<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043</a><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoPipelines</a>

Cindy<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Crispius" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Crispius</a> "The federal government faces a potential loss on the sale of the Trans Mountain pipeline as it estimates it's worth less than it cost to build" ~ reported by Parliamentary Budget Office<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TMX</a> 2/3<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043</a>

Trevor McLeod<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transmountain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipeline</a> still not running at full capacity? Isn't <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/daniellesmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#daniellesmith</a> always complaining that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ottawa</a> is strangling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alberta</a> ?As to ownership, keep it owned by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canadian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/one-year-after-the-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-why-isn-t-it-full-1.7525284?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/one-year-after-the-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-why-isn-t-it-full-1.7525284?cmp=rss</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2046729/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2046729/</a> One year after the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, why isn’t it full? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrownCorporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrownCorporation</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrudeOil</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrudeOilPrice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarkMaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkMaki</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilCompanies</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPrice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#petroleum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrevorTombe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrevorTombe</a>

atomickerThe <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> pipeline 'backfired' on the Liberals. 'All it did was embolden the fossil fuel industry'; 'they learned that if they pressure the government enough, they can get a multi-billion dollar pipeline built with taxpayer money'<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoPipelines</a>

Marcia MacDonaldTiny House Warriors sentencing May 2, 2025. Kamloops Court House at 9am. Support Secwepemc Land Defenders Mayuk Manuel, Isha Jules, Trisha Charlie and Sami Nasr.<a href="https://www.aptnnews.ca/investigates/inside-policing-whos-watching-the-watchers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aptnnews.ca/investigates/inside-policing-whos-watching-the-watchers/</a><a href="https://chuffed.org/project/104092-secwepemc-land-defense-legal-funds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chuffed.org/project/104092-secwepemc-land-defense-legal-funds</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/StopTMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopTMX</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandBack</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Secwepemc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Secwepemc</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CdnPoli</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BCPoli</a>

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱The fact that China has it in for Freeland is a one in the plus column for me, but not enough to counter her choosing to commit another $20B to Trans Mountain.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNPoli</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Freeland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Freeland</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LPC</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ForeignInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignInterference</a><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/canada-task-force-says-freeland-running-replace-trudeau-targeted-by-china-linked-2025-02-08/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/china/canada-task-force-says-freeland-running-replace-trudeau-targeted-by-china-linked-2025-02-08/</a>

Larry NeufeldNot a real surprise but the PBO makes it pretty clear what a terrible investment of public funds TMX was <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transmountain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TMX</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipelines</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043</a>

CindyCanadian taxpayer-subsidized <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> pipeline, according to 🇨🇦 Parliamentary Budget Office's (PBO) updated 2024 financial assessment: 🔻 worth LESS than it cost to build w/ valuation estimate that doesn't factor in sunk costs 🔻would NOT cover shareholder equity if sold = written off, record loss<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043</a>

Larry NeufeldTrans Mountain buys off a city: Burnaby barred from ‘negative public communications’ about Trans Mountain under $20M deal <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transmountain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Burnaby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Burnaby</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10791697/burnaby-trans-mountain-agreement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/10791697/burnaby-trans-mountain-agreement/</a>

Daniel Carkner🥀I don't generally say "thanks Trudeau" but in this case I am saying "thanks Trudeau" 🙄 he bought it with our tax dollars in the hopes of getting some marginal electoral gain in the prairies. turns out they still hate him and now the coast is at much higher environmental risk. part of the reason I've never voted Liberal in my life. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tanker-traffic-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-1.7305702" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tanker-traffic-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-1.7305702</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPipeline</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPoli</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CdnPoli</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Trudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trudeau</a>

Larry NeufeldTrans Mountain, with its pipeline threatened in Jasper wildfire, has long said wildfire risk is ‘low’ <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Jasper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jasper</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfires</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transmountain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipelines</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alberta</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/jasper-fire-trans-mountain-pipeline/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thenarwhal.ca/jasper-fire-trans-mountain-pipeline/</a>

Auscandoc“does not sit well with some members of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a community directly across from the tanker farm that has emerged as some of the [<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TransMountain</a>] pipeline’s fiercest critics.“They say it’s a ‘reconciliation deal’ to sell <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> people the pipeline, so that we can share in the revenues,” said Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. “But it’s a debt-ridden stranded asset. It would be economic smallpox to Indigenous peoples.” (9/11)

Auscandoc“In that context, the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TransMountain</a> pipeline’s immense cost overruns feed into broader questions about the future of Canada’s oil industry.Economists have already predicted that the Trans Mountain pipeline will soon be clogged with producers rushing to get their product to market. With no new megaprojects on the horizon, the growth trajectory of Canada’s oil output will slow by early 2026 as the appeal of Canadian oil – which has long traded at a discount on the global markets – fades” (8/11)

AuscandocThe [<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/Transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Transmountain</a>] <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pipeline</a> itself has become emblematic of a Canadian contradiction: promises of strong climate action, coupled with billions in <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FossilFuel</a> investments – and, critics say, massive government <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/subsidies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#subsidies</a> to the oil industry at a moment when the planet needs to move away from fossil fuels.” (2/11)

PhoenixSerenity*This was a bad/evil investment from start! Canada violated <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NativeSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeSovereignty</a> when buying it. RCMP sent to arrest/harass native activists.*<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> is amending regulations on how it manages state-owned <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMountain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPipeline</a> in order to facilitate its sale to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IndigenousGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousGroups</a>, according to official government notice published Weds.Ottawa plans to sell the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipeline</a> now that it is complete & wants to enable <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> communities along the route to buy a stake.<a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-amending-trans-mountain-ownership-174821052.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-amending-trans-mountain-ownership-174821052.html</a>

Larry NeufeldIf this pipeline is bought by Indigenous buyers ( who seem to be the most interested) they'll be soon stuck with a stranded asset. The <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Transmountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transmountain</a> pipeline is not a benefit financially or environmentally <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tmx-trans-mountain-sale-freeland-1.7176629" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tmx-trans-mountain-sale-freeland-1.7176629</a>

Auscandoc<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FossilFuelSubsidies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FossilFuelSubsidies</a> are a big problem across Canada. The federal government has spent $35 billion on the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TransMountain</a> oil pipeline and $275 million on a <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/LiquefiedNaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LiquefiedNaturalGas</a> facility. The Canadian oil and natural gas sector also benefits from special tax breaks under the Income Tax Act. (2/3)

Auscandoc<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trans-mountain-non-compliance-abbotsford-1.7109235" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trans-mountain-non-compliance-abbotsford-1.7109235</a>“The company building the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TransMountain</a> pipeline expansion has been cited for environmental non-compliance related to its management of recent flooding in <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BritishColumbia</a>.The regulator said the Crown corporation was not properly maintaining a watercourse isolation, wildlife fencing, soil coverings and dewatering pump and sump locations following recent heavy rain.”

Auscandoc<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/trans-mountain-expansion-begins-1.7150343" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/trans-mountain-expansion-begins-1.7150343</a> “When the federal government stepped in to purchase the project six years ago and rescue it from life support, the estimated price tag was $7.4 billion. Today, expenses are $34 billion.”<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TransMountain</a>“He suggests there should be a post-construction cost review to see what lessons can be learned about developing large-scale projects in Canada.”Uh duh!

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