🇨🇦 Fast-track the pipeline, ignore the toxic lake

Ottawa wants more oilsands output while sitting on a tailings mess the size of 600,000 Olympic pools. That is the Carney formula: grand nation-building photo ops, then a panicked scramble over the consequences. Tailings fluid rose 50 per cent from 2014 to 2024, ponds are hitting capacity, and after 60 years the system still depends on air cannons and scarecrows to keep wildlife out of poisoned water, as reported.

The real story is not that Alberta wants clear rules for treat-and-release. It is that Ottawa spent years strangling Canada’s energy sector with climate sermons, then suddenly discovered pipelines when export revenue and geopolitical reality became impossible to ignore. Liberal governance in one sentence: block development, let liabilities pile up, then pretend urgency is leadership. If Canada is serious about sovereignty, it needs energy expansion tied to hard cleanup standards and zero deference to the activist-bureaucrat class that creates paralysis, then lectures everyone else about responsibility.

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