Construction on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project is probably unlikely to begin any time soon.
In an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Goldy Hyder, the president of the Business Council of Canada, said based on renewed tensions between law enforcement and Indigenous people blockading pipeline work sites over the past week, he’s doubtful there will be any kind of quick progress on resuming construction of the pipeline the federal government spent billions to buy — and will spend billions more to expand.
That leadership is needed to resolve underlying concerns that also impact the future of Trans Mountain, he said.
“Now more than ever, we need leadership to be asserted and we have to get to the issues that resolve the First Nations questions because what we’re seeing right now with the nations, no one speaks for all of them,” he said before being asked whether he thinks any progress is imminent on Trans Mountain.
“If I was a betting man, I’d say not anytime soon and it’s not for the lack of effort. I recognize that a government purchased the pipeline, I recognize that the court decision put a bit of a delay in that process. But the question is what happens if what we’re seeing now happened all over again at the TMX site?”
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Amanda Connolly – Global News – January 13, 2019.
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