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🇨🇦🛢️🏭 : BC Premier David Eby says he is open to building a refinery in British Columbia to cut off imports of oil & gas from the USA.
He announced this after being asked if he would lift the tanker ban across the Northern BC Coast.
Eby says the TMX expansion is not being utilized at capacity and thus he sees no need for a new taxpayer funded pipeline.
David also says there is no offer from the private sector to build a pipeline.
Enbridge wanted to build the Northern Gateway pipeline 10 years ago. We also had a private offer to build a multi billion $ refinery in Kitimat.
Both projects were cancelled because Justin Trudeau & David Eby made it impossible for private investors.
In the case of the Northern Gateway pipeline, Justin Trudeau cancelled it in 2016 despite that line having First Nation consent & billions in equity shares in the line. Something I have posted about repeatedly, including a few days ago.
Enbridge also spent $1 billion on consultations and environmental impact assessments, only to have the new Liberal government ax the project anyways.
Once the BC NDP came to power, they made it next to impossible for a refinery project to be built by ensuring the process would cost far too much, while having too much uncertainty, to be viable.
We lost a decade of prosperity because of Justin Trudeau's Liberals & the BC NDP pushing their self serving agendas. Only to now watch David Eby backtrack 10 years later.
This should infuriate everyone. We could have had that refinery built by now and be domestically benefitting from & exporting premium jet fuel, gasoline, diesel & various types of crude.
The reality is, David Eby is a failure & should be stepping down so a competent government can take over.
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