Quebec’s relationship with the oil industry: it’s complicated

Pipe Dreams: The Fight For Canada's Energy Future, by Jacques Poitras, has been shortlisted along with four others for the Writers' Trust of Canada's 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced in Ottawa on May 15 at the Politics and the Pen gala.

Quebec’s former Parti Québécois premier, Pauline Marois, said she never outright endorsed the Energy East pipeline, but reporters suggested her government seemed to have a favourable view of it. Photograph courtesy of the Parti Québécois

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BY JACQUES POITRAS

May 1, 2019

The Lac-Mégantic disaster remained seared in Quebec’s consciousness. The train that exploded in July 2013—one example of the fiftyfold increase in oil-by-rail between 2009 and 2013—had come through the American Midwest, crossed into Canada at Windsor, then passed through Montreal before headi...

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