{"id":9118,"date":"2014-06-09T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2014-06-11T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:15:21","slug":"politically-speaking-nobody-wants-this-pipeline-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/06\/09\/politically-speaking-nobody-wants-this-pipeline-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Speaking<\/em>: Nobody wants this pipeline, but\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I say \u201cNorthern Gateway,\u201d I can hear you yawning from here. And, as a politics guy, I could let that bother me. But I won\u2019t, because I get it. There has been so much talk about Enbridge\u2019s proposal in the last few years that it really has been beaten to death.<\/p>\n

In fact, we hear so much about it that the story gets lost in the headlines. What you need to know right now is that the Harper government is probably going to approve the pipeline this month.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m not shocking anyone by being another spoiled island college kid against the pipeline. Sure, I think it\u2019s an awful idea, but so does everyone else around campuses these days. That doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

What does matter is that over 300 scientists from Canada and around the world recently sent Harper a letter begging him to reconsider, accusing the original Joint Review Panel (JRP) review of being extremely flawed.<\/p>\n

The review was a laundry list of errors made in the JRP report, accompanied by a request for a delay. When 300 scientists of different disciplines tell you you\u2019re doing science wrong, you should probably humour them.<\/p>\n

Well, scientists only know science, and college kids don\u2019t really know anything, you say. You\u2019re wondering why no one asked the working man, or even the unemployed man. Let\u2019s get our heads out of the science clouds and ask Joe the Plumber! Well, we did. And we asked Tom the Lawyer, and Bard the Dentist. They don\u2019t want it either. Almost no one in BC does.<\/p>\n

The latest poll conducted among British Columbians shows that 67 percent want the project either delayed or scrapped altogether. Between building, delaying, and scrapping the whole pipeline, the province is split essentially into thirds. But two thirds of us don\u2019t want the current proposal to go ahead.<\/p>\n

This goes beyond environmental science and some probable view of BC\u2019s future. This is about democracy. Ignoring the scientific reasons for or against Northern Gateway, we don\u2019t want it, at least not right now. If this really is rule by the people, why are we still talking about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I say \u201cNorthern Gateway,\u201d I can hear you yawning from here. And, as a politics guy, I could let that bother me. But I won\u2019t, because I get it. There has been so much talk about Enbridge\u2019s proposal in the last few years that it really has been beaten to death. In fact, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-june-11-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}