Alberta’s shameful pipeline politics ignores First Nations

Canada (Conversation) – Over the past few years, I have listened with interest to debates over moving Alberta-sourced natural resources to tidewater for export. Plans have come and, sometimes, gone. One plan that attracts heated responses is Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion proposal. If implemented, it would see the “twinning” of a pipeline running between Edmonton, Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia. Provincial governments that should be good neighbours and political allies seem like anything but these days. Alberta’s NDP government argues that moving oilsands bitumen toward new markets is essential…

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