by Andy Rowell
In the end, Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive
politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out
disappointingly to be like all the rest. His suit is cut from the same
old cloth.
And like a classic politician he spoke in
Orwellian terms of fighting climate change, and promising clean air,
water and wilderness whilst approving Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain
pipeline that we know will exacerbate climate change, will impact air
quality and lead to a massive increase in tanker traffic that will harm
wildlife.
Contorting the definition of words, he
said that Canada was still a “climate leader” and added: “Canadians
value clean air and water, beautiful coasts and wilderness and refuse to
accept that they must be compromised to create growth. We agree.”
In fact Trudeau even went as far as to say that Kinder Morgan was an “integral part of our plan to uphold the Paris Agreement to reduce emissions while creating jobs and protecting the environment”.
If this was not so serious it would be
laughable that a politician of his stature is trying to argue that a
pipeline that will transport 890,000 barrels of oil a day of dirty tar
sands crude can somehow be integral to saving the climate...http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/04/kinder-morgan-pipeline-might-be-canadas-dapl
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