BC, Alberta governments press ahead on plans for tar sands pipelines and exports

Last summer, the then-unelected premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, hit the ‘pause’ button on promotion efforts for the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline across northern British Columbia. She said that ‘five conditions’ had to be met in order for the project to proceed. The premier postured as a critic of the Alberta and federal governments and said she was ‘standing up for British Columbians’ to gain a bigger share of revenues from the project...more