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[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@ExnerPirot You’ve got the old grievance story front and centre, but none of the hard stuff that’s stopped projects before incl. Indigenous buy in along the route, BC court risk, or who’s actually writing the cheques in today’s market. It explains the politics but not the build

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@nspector4 The Cowichan ruling did not settle private property rights. It simply refused to reopen the case after judgment.

Montrose is not automatically part of the appeal and must seek the Court of Appeal’s permission to participate.

The real fight is still ahead.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@TheAnnaMurphy @cspotweet It was not Lougheed’s policy, it was significantly stricter. However, you’re right that it was ultimately defeated, twice.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@cspotweet Lougheed created a landuse system that protected some areas and restricted or allowed mining in others depending on sensitivity. Notley, as oppposition leader, tried to make protections stricter by permanent legal bans and temporarily pause development elsewhere. It was defeated

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@ThisIsMeCassie That is ridiculous reasoning - go touch grass.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@AndieWinnipeg In 2024, you argued falling overdose deaths didn’t prove the Recovery Model was working because correlation isn’t causation. Now you’re arguing a smaller decline proves it isn’t working. The same standard should apply: if the data don’t prove success, they don’t prove failure.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@BOEReport This Burrard Inlet case is an interesting example because it seems to have gone from concept to federal approval in just over a year.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@ExnerPirot Good to see Ottawa backing nuclear and recognizing it needs public support to get built. The obvious challenge is they are trying to do CANDU SMRs enrichment and fleet build all at once. Each is reasonable but they compete for money and talent. We shall see in final stratedy.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@aberzimbabwe @ExnerPirot It must be converted into U-233 inside the reactor.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@ExnerPirot Probably intentionally vague b/c enrichment facilities would require a higher level of security and foreign policy. Was curious how they are going to frame it.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@ExnerPirot Agreed, but it’s not mentioned in the policy. SMRs and uranium enrichment go hand in hand. My point is, If Canada is planning to expand SMRs, it should also address how it intends to secure a long-term supply of enriched fuel.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@nspector4 Too bad BC doesn’t seem to share that approach. When projects face years of regulatory hurdles and legal uncertainty, investors have other options and some choose to put their capital elsewhere.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@LawyerBuchanan Thanks for posting. Glad you’re okay. It does give some confidence that the system is working, even if there are inefficiencies as noted. What we often read doesn’t always reflect reality. A good reminder not to judge everything by headlines alone.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@Berad55 @JackieBee_16 Consistent with my experience as well. Same for a CT.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@KeithMcNeill6 Pembina’s LNG framing is too neat for a messy global market. LNG demand is not collapsing. It is shifting with continued growth in Asia & driven by energy security and coal displacement. Cda’s challenge is competitiveness and emissions intensity not a global demand cliff.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@JeromyYYC Stampede is a signature event for Calgary and with it comes noise and late nights. The City should enforce safety/basic standards but also a reasonable degree of tolerance for an event that brings cultural and economic value. Great cities manage both livability and celebration.

[Env Realist @ChiveVc]

@irbrodie A passage in The Coutts Diaries describes Trudeau era Liberals debating the death penalty, with the view that if they were going to govern on principle over polling, they “might as well believe in something.”

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@ExnerPirot The revised SiMbA silica project is smaller, phased, and far more heavily monitored than the original proposal. The technology is largely unchanged, but the debate is now whether a demonstration-scale project can safely prove the concept before any larger expansion. Reasonable.

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@FoodProfessor Canada’s structural alignment with the US is not optional or ideological it is economic reality. Carney’s positioning appears to underweight that reality and instead reflects a more abstract, Europe leaning policy lens that doesn’t map well onto Canada’s actual trade dependencies