Trans Mountain expansion may not give long-term price relief to Canada's booming oil output

I think it's been well-understood from the outset that the project would only be a tool for Albertan oil companies to sell bitumen internationally and not be a tool to help alberta, the environment, canada .. or, really, anyone other than oil company CEOs. Getting the Conservatives to pressure Justin into buying this ridiculous climate disaster waiting to happen regularly was a massive coup; and maybe it'll mean bigger campaign donations for Conservatives, but maybe not. The nature of fairweather friends is they tend to attract their own fairweather friends.

It's a dumb and dangerous project that brings no benefit to Canadians outside a few rich assholes. It'll drive up oil shipping pollution and probably produce a few hundred leaking incidents over its lifetime.

Canadians each own about $750 of that pipeline.

Put another way we each own about 0.03m of its length (that's about 1-1/4").

$750 for 1-1/4" of pipe to help oil companies more profitably murder the planet.