Another pipeline, another panic 

Once again, the Trudeau government’s larger, loftier climate ambitions seem to vanish every time a pipeline company, or a western premier, declares that the sky is falling. It never falls, although it changes, as oil falls into public disfavour.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage, pictured in a scrum on May 2, 2019, in the Senate Building in Ottawa, after appearing before the Senate's Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources.
CHELSEA, QUE.—This season’s pipeline panic, something of a regular occurrence in national politics, centres on Enbridge’s Line 5—a 1,000-kilometre pipe that carries western Canadian oil and natural gas liquids from northwestern Wisconsin, through Michigan, and on to Sarnia, Ont., where much ...

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