Pipeline Approval Sets Stage for Showdown

From:  Epoch Times 

By Matthew Little, Epoch Times | June 18, 2014

Last Updated: June 18, 2014 9:55 pm

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, says vast majority of British Columbians
 are "steadfastly opposed"  to the Northern Gateway pipeline project. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)

No one was holding their breath over what Ottawa would decide on the Northern Gateway pipeline megaproject.

Approval was never really in doubt, despite the heated criticism the project has attracted from those worried that bitumen shipped from Alberta’s oilsands to the British Columbia coast would find its way into streams, forests, and ocean waters. 

So when the government endorsed the National Energy Board’s conditional approval of the pipeline at a little after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17, response was swift. MORE