The company announced the deal last Thursday, a US$4.5-billion natural gas pipeline that will supply Mexico’s central and southeast regions.TC Energy is doing in Mexico what is next to impossible in Canada — building energy infrastructure.project, a 670-kilometre project from Dawson Creek, B.C. across the Rockies to Kitimat, was first proposed a decade ago. Approval from First Nations partners along the route was obtained through 2014 and 2015, the B.C.
The National Energy Board had never imposed such conditions and wasn’t imposing them on other projects that the Trudeau Liberals favoured at the time, such as Energie Saguenay. The project was also being denounced by Quebec politicians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adopted the language of “social licence.”Article content
In Trudeau’s Canada, we block pipelines, we delay them, we refuse permission to build the energy infrastructure we need, that the world needs. Unless it is outside of Canada, like the permission granted to ship turbines to Germany to power Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system — the one funding Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.Article content