"I see the reality setting in soon that there is no project, there’s no pipeline route, there’s no proponent – and there’s no support. Everyone here is against it."

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"Because there’s absolutely nothing that can fully guarantee the safety of our communities from an oil spill, there’s nothing that can be said to convince us otherwise"

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"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast"

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"When people talk about this project, they need to understand an entire ecosystem could collapse in the event of a spill. Losing a culture that developed relationships with the ocean over thousands of years would be devastating"

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"... looking underneath the hood offered a series of caveats that suggest weaker results than the headline figures imply"

"... a pullback in imports and relatively flat exports creates the mathematical impression of growth, rather than reflecting an actual surge in firms doing business"

6. suspends Clean Electricity Regulations for AB, already one of the highest-emission grids in the country

7. backs down on industrial carbon pricing

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4. promises new tax breaks for more CCUS, now approved to be used for even more oil extraction (previously not allowed)

5. commits to allowing oil tankers on the BC coast, gutting the Tanker Moratorium Act as necessary

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1. Weakens restrictions on methane emissions for AB's oil & gas industry

2. Makes a new tarsands pipeline a 'priority', promising to fast-track it

3. supports the massively expensive Pathways CCS (which requires billions in public subsidies to proceed)

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'There are 20 Liberals from British Columbia in the House of Commons. If the Alberta deal goes ahead as predicted, there will be about five after the next federal election', which 'certainly explains why some of Carney’s B.C. Liberal MPs are said to be “seething” at their leader'

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Carney's move to exempt Alberta from Clean Electricity Regulations is "a serious mistake"; "without this regulation, the electricity sector - which has halved its pollution over the past 20 years - would return to an upwards emissions trajectory"

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