Hard as we try, Canada can’t seem to shake the pattern of pipeline politics.

As we move toward 2030, with renewables and electrification accelerating worldwide, it’s increasingly clear that new pipelines are not “nation-building” projects — they’re relics of an industry facing structural decline.

Despite decades of energy transition progress, routine oil market crashes and mass layoffs, clear and undeniable opposition from coastal First Nations and the absence of a private sector proponent, industry and politicians keep trying to sell the idea of another mega pipeline project to nowhere.

This week’s memorandum of understanding between Ottawa and Alberta on a pipeline to B.C.’s north coast is the latest chapter in this weird, depressing tale of wasting tens of billions of dollar

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