Frustrated by Pipeline Myths Albertans Tell Themselves? Here Are the Facts - 2019-05-21

Frustrated by Pipeline Myths Albertans Tell Themselves? Here Are the Facts May 21, 2019, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

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Alberta's major exports these days seem to be piles of misinformation, denial, blame, and propaganda on the state-owned Trans Mountain pipeline.

According to some of the more ridiculous claims, environmentalists are to blame for bitumen price discounts, Vancouverites are being punished for their orca-loving ways with high gasoline prices, and climate change really doesn't matter.

Their politicians don't dare admit the reality — that combined overproduction of bitumen and U.S. tight oil brought down the global price of oil with a thundering crash in 2014. In the world we inhabit now, oil business as usual has died.

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