Marvin Shaffer: Pipeline project is not a black-and-white issue

In the highly charged atmosphere of pipeline politics, it was inevitable that whatever the federal government decided on the Trans Mountain expansion project, it would generate furious debate.
Had the government simply let the project die after Kinder Morgan decided to stop construction, opponents of pipeline expansion would have hailed this as a great, well-considered decision, while the proponents would have castigated it as pandering to radical environmental interests. And now with the govern