On a similar note - on Friday, I toured the Vancouver harbour, with staff from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. These photos show the terminus of the TMX pipeline - where Alberta oil is loaded onto ships headed to Asia. Another reminder of how our provincial economies are deeply interconnected - and why Alberta is dependent on other Canadian provinces to succeed. #Vancouver #TMX #Alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #TRCM

@dyckron

If #Carney submits to Danielle Smith’s demands under #Alberta’s childish threat to separate, this #NDP voter will lend no more future votes to the #Liberals.

I live in an area upended by the #TMX construction for years. Hundreds of ignored protests, years of tall blue fences surrounding our local trails adorned with threats of incarceration. Dirty oiler flags and dirty workers smirking at residents anger as they idled their trucks for hours destroying our local habitat.

Alberta is admitting to #Canada they will never be content unless they are given carte blanche to destroy BC ecosystems and build new pipelines, despite lack of demand for their product.

There will always be another devastating project being forced upon us by #DanielleSmith and her heartless O&G Barons. This time, she’s content to sacrifice #BC’s #haidagwaii and North Coast, all for the sake of a dirty, greedy, corrupt Oil and Gas Industry. This will not end well.

@thegreenpagesBC

Did #BC just flood the #PeaceValley to use #SiteC Dam power for LNG and an Bell/Grok AI data cluster?

Is this the start of US corporations drinking our water for memes of Will Smith eating spaghetti?

This is disturbing behaviour from our province. #BCNDP have clearly forgotten that they are on a razor’s edge and can be voted out easily.

Eby continues to embrace #LNG extraction in the wake of #TMX, #SiteC, #FairyCreek and now Elon’s #AI Data Centers will be drinking our water?

This #BCNDP is clearly no better than destructive #Conservatives, if they continue down this path they’ve lost my vote.

Trump is not an excuse to openly rape our Province for profit, #Eby is completely out of line and no different than #Horgan.

@Crispius

"The federal government faces a potential loss on the sale of the Trans Mountain pipeline as it estimates it's worth less than it cost to build, the Parliamentary Budget Office"

#TransMountain #TMX

2/2

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-potential-loss-trans-mountain-sale-1.7378043

@revndm @GottaLaff absolutely.

The best and most impactful protest I was ever in was the huge #TMX pipeline protest in Vancouver a few years back. Even though it didn't stop the pipeline completely, it was a clear point in time where the population was in huge support of climate action related stuff and against more fossil fuel infrastructure. And it was the first big gathering combining First Nations as well as the general population.

For some quick back-of-the-envelope comparisons with current road, slow rail, and fast rail travel times according to Google Maps.

Toronto - Quebec City: 859km 8hr 10hr 6hr (?)

Toronto - Montreal: 550km 5.5hr 5.5hr 3hr (?)

Paris - Nice: 1000km 9hr 6hr

Paris - Marseille: 850km 8hr 3.5hrs

Boston - Washington DC: 700km 7.5hr 9hr

Detroit - Washington DC: 840km 8hr 14hr

@PatrickoftheG @pmjustintrudeau is really dragging his feet on this one - it was a big part of his 2015 election platform, nine years ago.
On top of that, his government bought the #TMX pipeline to get #Alberta's dirty crude oil to tidewater.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-s-environment-plan-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies-invest-in-clean-tech-1.3131607
#cdnpoli #globalheating

This has been a Conservative tactic for years now, doing their dark fascist work in the middle of night when no one can see or document them.

The “proud boys” did something similar one night when we were protesting #TMX on Burnaby mountain.

The group, angry with our protests, had caught word that a local native chief was coming to do a blessing ceremony the next day.

They secretly moved in at night and erected a gigantic “Canadian Jobs Matter” sign adorned with flags right at the front. The next day Rebel News was out in force filming and shaming protesters in front of the sign.

They clearly had a high level of covert cooperation to get it done. I remember the custom printed sign looked pricey and was professionally installed on a metal frame with concrete bricks so no one could even budge it.

That was the first time I realized how dangerous and well funded the “proud boys” were. I even received a death threat on twitter during the time, as I had been live posting the event.

I was told I would receive “a bullet in the back of my head” for my posts. They wanted to threaten me out of protesting and posting. That was a decade ago now.

These days conservative fringe groups are even more emboldened and most are probably flush with #Russian cash. BC is truly in peril if these unruly thugs manage to get control.

@MatWright