I think it’s been well-understood from the outset that the project would only be a tool for Albertan oil companies to sell bitumen internationally and not be a tool to help alberta, the environment, canada … or, really, anyone other than oil company CEOs. Getting the Conservatives to pressure Justin into buying this ridiculous climate disaster waiting to happen regularly was a massive coup; and maybe it’ll mean bigger campaign donations for Conservatives, but maybe not. The nature of fairweather friends is they tend to attract their own fairweather friends.

It’s a dumb and dangerous project that brings no benefit to Canadians outside a few rich assholes. It’ll drive up oil shipping pollution and probably produce a few hundred leaking incidents over its lifetime.

Canadians each own about $750 of that pipeline.

Put another way we each own about 0.03m of its length (that’s about 1-1/4").

$750 for 1-1/4" of pipe to help oil companies more profitably murder the planet.