Opinion: Blocking Trans Mountain pipeline does Canada no good

It’s not easy to build pipelines or expand their capacity in Canada. Last fall, faced with obstacles and lengthening delays, TransCanada abandoned its Energy East pipeline project in Quebec and New Brunswick, valued at over $16 billion. Earlier, in the spring, Ottawa had put the kibosh on the Northern Gateway project out west, valued at $8 billion.
But there are also successes, like the Trans Mountain project, which was approved by the federal government and seemed, up until just