Ewart: Much noise, little dialogue over Northern Gateway pipeline – Calgary Herald
There’s no debate over the Northern Gateway pipeline.
There’s been plenty of talk – much of it impassioned, some of it belligerent – but in the
dictionary sense of the participants in a discussion legitimately considering the different sides of a question, there really isn’t a debate over the oilsands pipeline Ottawa approved Tuesday.
The “noise” is drowning out actual dialogue.
The issue is about getting Alberta’s landlocked oilsands resources to overseas markets so that projected growth to 4.8 million barrels a day production by 2030 occurs. Or, it’s about coming up with ways to stop that scenario from playing out.
