Bill C-69 can’t fix what’s really plaguing pipelines

The legislation is a false battleground allowing industry to vent their fears while making oversimplified claims and giving pipeline opponents false hope that the door to projects will be closed once and for all.

While the pipeline industry wants the politics removed from the approval process, pipelines are inherently political because they often run through dozens of Indigenous nations’ territories, municipalities, and multiple provinces, writes Amy Janzwood, a research associate at the Munk School’s environmental governance lab.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY Amy Janzwood

June 6, 2019

At the end of May, the Senate accepted a committee report with an enormous package of amendments to Bill C-69, which seeks to reform how major energy projects, including pipelines, are regulated. The bill is one of the most conte...

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