This is good news, and I say it as an Albertan for 41 of my 48 years. The BC environment is for BC to deal with; if BC residents do not want pipelines, there should be no pipelines on BC territory.  The BC government's respect for what BC wants is good for BC. The delay and, I hope, eventual cancellation of the pipelines is equally good for Alberta.

Oil dependence has done terrible things to the Albertan economy and to its character. After several boom and bust cycles we are as dependent on oil as ever, filthier than ever in how we produce it, and blinder and more cowardly than ever in dealing with our dependence. There is no will in Alberta to diversify away from oil, and altogether too much denial about the degradation we have done to our land, the disgust everywhere about it, and the dead end we are sure to hit sooner rather than later because we will do nothing except mine dirty oil.

If Albertans will do nothing for ourselves, we may as well be forced into action from outside.

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