Really, though, what the left is tickled pink about is its own delusion that the 1.1 million barrels of oil a day that would have flowed through Energy East will now magically stay in the ground. No more oilsands. No more oil industry, whose royalties happened to help pay for schools, hospitals and social programs here.
Energy East won’t stop the flow of oil. It will just mean more oil going to Louisiana and Texas refineries, leaving us at the mercy of the next hurricane.
Meanwhile, the environmental forward-thinkers will just have to sit and watch more oil move by rail, hoping it doesn’t result in another Lac Megantic. And they will dutifully try to ignore that we live in a freeze-your-arse-in-the-winter country where our livelihoods — our very survival, for that matter — depend on leaving somewhat of a carbon footprint. After all, even your organic (or non-organic) produce gets here courtesy of oil.
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