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Enbridge boss says it’s harder to build Northern Gateway than the Meech Lake Accord
https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/enbridge-boss-says-its-harder-to-build-northern-gateway-than-the-meech-lake-accord/63055
It’s harder to build a pipeline in Canada than it is to amend the constitution, says the chief executive of the company that proposed a cancelled pipeline to the west coast.
Speaking on the sidelines of the CERAWeek by S&P Global energy conference in Houston, Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel compared the task of planning and developing oil export lines to the ill-fated Meech Lake Accord to bring Quebec into the constitution.
Calgary-based Enbridge was the backer of both the Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat. The $8 billion project was cancelled in 2016 by the Trudeau government which refused to lift the tanker ban on the West Coast.
In an interview, Ebel said crossing provincial borders is often more difficult than crossing international ones, like the 49th parallel.
“As I've often said, the East-West pipe is a bit like the Meech Lake Accord, and that's hard to get everybody on the same page for the amount of time it actually takes to get regulatory and legislative approval.”
Northern Gateway is one of two shelved projects advocates say could be revived to circumvent US president Donald Trump’s 10% tariffs on Canadian energy.