Our federal government has decided to pay $4.5 billion for this aging pipeline. Billions more will be required to upgrade the pipeline as its old owner, Kinder Morgan, planned. Some estimates say it will cost about $12 billion altogether.
For $12 billion the federal government could create 240,000 person years of work at $50,000 a year. We could put people to work across the country building renewable energy in every community. Switching to geothermal, neighbourhood block heating, wind and wave would put us ahead of the game as oil fields fall out of production and climate chaos intensifies with superstorms and severe weather.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/07/11/Why-I-Got-Arrested-Protesting-Kinder-Morgan-Pipeline/
