A new poll suggested that 59 percent of Quebeckers would support a new energy yeast program
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Ottawa – A few years ago, Quebec Premier Fran ுவ ois Logold caused a bustling by calling Alberta oil in West Canada “Dirty energy.” Today, the same oil seems a little clean because the Prime Minister opens the door of a new pipeline in the province.
“For now, there is no plan on the table. If there is a plan on the table, we will see it, ”he said during the question of questioning in the National Assembly.
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4,500 km of pipe energy, which carried 1.1 million barrels of crude oil from Alberta to Irving Cleaning Center, officially proposed by Trans Canada (DC Energy) in 2013 Dropped in 2017 due to regulatory obstacles in Canada And strong resistance from environmental groups. At that time the project was estimated at more than 15 billion Billion.
The project is not very popular in Quebec. The provincial government has never signed up because it has seen some benefits and the pipeline will have to cross many rivers, which raised concerns among Quebeckers.
“We need social acceptance for such a project. If there is a plan, we will see it,” Legalt said.
His ideas As-La Press The referendum on Thursday suggested that 59 percent of Quebezers would support a new energy yeast program.
Legalt’s transparent openness has prompted outrage from the second separatist opposition in the National Assembly, Quebec Solider.
QS co-chairman Rupa Kajal said, “Alberta’s dirty energy vendors are” forcing Conservative President Pierre Boylevre and Quebec Conservative Party leader Eric Duhim “to swallow two pipes.”
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Due to the environmental concerns, the Legald government rejected the Sakunu-Lac-Synt-Gean with a terminal of $ 14 billion with a $ 14 billion. Quebec’s Environment Minister Benoit Sarrett recently said that if the project is environmentally friendly, his government will study it.
But no plans have taken place.
“Any pipeline project that destroys Energy East, GNL Quebec or our environment is the worst plans of our carbon neutral objectives,” he added.
Quebec was one of the first jurisdiction to abandon the exploitation and study of hydrocarbons, so the National Assembly wanted the National Assembly to follow a resolution that the provincial government was asked to “oppose the growth of any pipeline project”.
The coalition voted against the Avenir Quebec government and the Quebec Liberal Party.
The party voted in favor of the Cubaagois movement. The PQ government was in the government when the DC first proposed the Energy East Project. At the time, the Minister of Environment, Yaws-Franzua Blancet, is now the head of Black Cubaagois.
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“I am vehemently opposed to any market in the Quebec region of hydrocarbons from West Canada. It does not serve Quebec. It does not serve the environment. It will not serve the planet,” he recently said.
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