First Nations leaders pledge to block pipeline expansion
Richard Fidler, Stewart Phillip, and Serge Simon / April 17, 2018 / 7 min readSyndicated
From the outset, Ottawa has faced opposition to carbon taxes from some provinces, which fear such market-based mechanisms will discourage private business investment. And mass popular opposition accompanied by the global downturn in resource prices has already led to TransCanada’s cancellation of its $15.7-billion Energy East project and Ottawa’s nixing of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline.