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Randall Denley: The Ontario-Alberta oil pipeline proposal isn't helping

It doesn't address a real problem, pipelines aren't the province's jurisdiction, and the cost to Ontario would be eye-watering

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At first glance, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s new pipeline plan sounds like something good. Rather than relying on routes that pass through the U.S., let’s protect Ontario’s fossil fuel supply by building a pipeline across our own country to supply refineries in Ontario. That would avert the threat of the Americans cutting off Ontario’s supply.

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Dig a little deeper, though, and one quickly discovers that the American threat isn’t much of a threat and the cost of the pipeline that Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are proposing would vastly exceed any imaginable benefit.

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That’s not the only deficiency in Ford’s Northern Shield Energy Corridor plan, which also proposes shipping Ontario minerals west via the same route. There is no obvious demand for this oil pipeline. Ontario’s oil refineries are not clamouring for a new source of oil and, even if they were, they don’t have the........

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