Is Carney's pipeline the real deal?

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NCC Director Alexander Brown breaks down this critical moment for Alberta and Canada’s energy renewal with Lorne Gunter, senior columnist at the Edmonton Journal. The focus: Mark Carney's "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with Alberta and Thursday’s announcement aimed at (supposedly) building a pipeline to B.C.'s Pacific coast through NDP-led territory notoriously hostile to resource development.

While superficially promising, Brown and Gunter dissect it as a potential echo of the Trudeau era’s empty promises, setting Alberta up for failure amid political spin. As Poilievre and Carney clash in the House over an endless list of conditions the pipeline may struggle to meet, much like the ‘Major Projects Office,’ these claims from the Liberals that they’ve changed on energy aren’t matched by the continued efforts to bury initiatives in bureaucracy.

Gunter, drawing from his latest column argues the MOU burdens Alberta with impossible preconditions like more upfront Indigenous and environmental approvals, guaranteeing gridlock. The duo questions Carney’s concessions to B.C. Premier David Eby, a fervent far-left radical and advocate for de-growth. Even Trudeau never relinquished such power to John Horgan’s NDP -- the feds have interprovincial authority.

And in a discussion on Carney's 'climate cult' continuing to hurt Canadians, Dan McTeague, executive director of Canadians for Affordable Energy joined the NCC director on Juno for an impassioned breakdown of the climate zealots who continue to harm Canada's economic prosperity and potential.

Fresh off the heels of COP30 in Brazil, the duo dissect the global climate summit’s empty rhetoric and its dire implications for everyday Canadians.

Highlighting the absurdity of world leaders jetting in on private planes – and racking up massive carbon footprints – while preaching austerity to the masses, Brown highlights how it’s the elites who continue to demand sacrifice from the working class but exempt themselves. McTeague piles on, detailing how Canada’s pursuit of green de-growth is crippling the economy for next to no environmental gain.

When conversation turns to Carney’s lofty claims of “carbon neutrality“ for future infrastructure, Brown and McTeague call it a farce, noting that allies like the U.S. and competitors such as China aren’t handcuffing their economies to appease subsidized green lobbies.

Blocking Canadian energy exports and leaving in place bad bills only empowers foreign suppliers with less of a green standard. The usual suspects in environmental activism, NGOs, left-wing politics, and legacy media continue to prophesize doom if Canada brings more resources to market, while ignoring the forest’s felled to even host COP in the first place, but the opportunity is there for Canada’s economy to recover, while also better supporting environmental sustainability.

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