Feds sell out Newfoundland and Labrador economy to play to anti-energy groups

Bill C-69 is not about improved environmental protection. It is about forging barriers that create a longer and uncertain process. This uncertainty will make exploration more costly.

Newfoundland and Labrador MP Seamus O’Regan gets sworn into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in August 2017. If we listen to Trudeau, O’Regan and the federal environment minister, the only people opposed to Bill C-69 are lobbyists from Big Oil, not the province’s citizens.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY SENATOR DAVID WELLS

July 3, 2019

There is a very good reason almost everyone in Newfoundland and Labrador is opposed to Bill C-69. This piece of federal legislation kneecaps our well-managed and responsible petroleum sector, supposedly in the name of the environment. But if you read between the lines—and the oil and gas indust...

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