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How about they take a small pittance of the profits from this pipeline (the gross aggregate value of wild salmon, halibut and groundfish is only 440 million) so the profits that BC realizes from that would be miniscule, and buy the fleet, park it and stop the fishing altogether. That would make NBC a better place and it is very, very affordable given the WTI Brent spread.

So you are supporting that China continues to buy Oil from Iran. You are supporting a theocracy in control of a nuclear weapon. Also the WTI and Brent crude arbitrage that exists right now costs our country many 10s of billions a year. That is money that could be used to pay for health care and education which is where most of the gov't spending increases over the last 10 years have gone. The ecological risk can be completely mitigated by parking the commercial fishing fleet of BC with a pittance of the profits this pipeline will bring.

Since you are a climate science I have an earnest question for you. The pleistocene is marked by increased glaciation periods and our current interglacial peaked out in temperature about 7000 years. Would it not make sense to get the carbon dioxide level up a bit so we ensure that we don't have another ice age? Nothing like covering 50% of the worlds landmass in ice and bringing the climate in Yellowknife to Northern California to create a real ecological disaster.