Kinder Morgan Approval Insults Democracy, Science and Econom

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Kinder Morgan Approval Insults Democracy, Science and Economic Logic

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It’s an irrational political decision and affront to Canada’s interests.

By Andrew Nikiforuk , 30 Nov 2016 | TheTyee.ca

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here: [ http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Andrew_Nikiforuk/ ] 

By approving the Kinder Morgan pipeline, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has undermined democracy, ignored science, trashed all economic logic and put his government on a collision course with First Nations and British Columbia’s coastal communities.

Although the prime minister claimed that his decision was “based on rigorous debate on science and on evidence,” the approval remains, say economic and petroleum experts, an irrational political decision that sacrifices the best economic and environment interests of the country.

Let’s begin with the insult to democracy.

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