Keystone XL Pipeline

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s given up on the Keystone XL oil pipeline as President Biden has made clear his decision to nix the project.

Trudeau recently held a virtual meeting with Biden and gushed over their potential collaboration on climate change, but in the past has also promoted the oil conduit between his country and the US.

At last month’s meeting, the two leaders did not mention their disagreement on Biden’s post-inaugural executive action ending construction of the pipeline.

Trudeau told NBC program “Meet the Press” on Sunday that “I think it’s fairly clear that the US administration has made its decision on that and we’re much more interested in ensuring that we’re moving forward in ways that are good for both of our countries.”

Biden’s decision to cancel the pipeline cost thousands of jobs on both sides of the border, though his anti-global-warming chief John Kerry claimed that energy-sector workers impacted by Biden administration actions will “have better choices” and can “go to work to make the solar panels.”

https://nypost.com/2021/03/01/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-gives-up-on-keystone-xl-pipeline/

RCMP are investigating what is being described as a “organized violent attack” on pipeline workers, police and equipment at a Coastal GasLink drilling site near the Morice River in northern British Columbia.

Mounties were called for reports that 20 masked people, some of them wielding axes, had attacked security guards at the work site near Houston, B.C., shortly after midnight Thursday, smashing the windows of their vehicle.

“This coordinated and criminal attack from multiple directions threatened the lives of several workers,” TC Energy Corp., the company building the Coastal GasLink pipeline, said in a statement.

“In one of the most concerning acts, an attempt was made to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside. The attackers also wielded axes, swinging them at vehicles and through a truck’s window,” the company said. “Flare guns were also fired at workers.”

Initially RCMP were told that some of the workers were trapped at the site, but all nine employees managed to escape safely and without any injuries.

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/coastal-gaslink-site-in-b-c-left-with-millions-in-damage-after-violent-attack-by-masked-assailants-wielding-axes

Blockade February 2020

Addressing the House of Commons Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Canadians to be patient with his government as it seeks a negotiated end to Indigenous protests that have crippled the country's transportation network.

Trudeau said his government is committed to "dialogue" over the use of force with the Indigenous protesters who have shut down CN Rail in Eastern Canada and much of Via Rail's services nationwide by blocking a key artery in southern Ontario. CN announced it is "temporarily" laying off about 450 workers at its Eastern Canadian operations.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Trudeau's call for more talks with the protesters has emboldened "radical activists" who are intent on holding the Canadian economy hostage.

In a forceful response to Trudeau, Scheer said the prime minister's reluctance to use the police to stop the illegal blockades was akin to appeasement, a stance that privileges activists over "hard-working Canadians" and Indigenous people who support development.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-pipeline-protests-house-1.5466878