Surprise! The Harper cabinet has given the Northern Gateway pipeline the go-ahead.
After years of corporate campaigning and counter-protests, Enbridge's multi-billion project will have to meet the 209 conditions laid out by a federal review panel last December, the federal government announced Tuesday.
The approval could put B.C. Conservative seats on the endangered species list; Harper's Alberta base must be happy, though.
What better time to take a trip down memory lane about Enbridge's PR department's most misleading blunders. Their friends around Harper's cabinet table also made their fair share.
Here's a recap of five of them.
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/5-times-canadians-were-utterly-misled-about-northern-gateway-pipeline
1. The time Enbridge showed everyone geographically inaccurate maps:
In 2012, Enbridge launched an advertising blitz to portray the Northern Gateway pipeline in a low-risk, positive light.
One ad involved a bird's-eye-view tour of the pipeline route hovering over a computer animated map. Okay so far. Who doesn't like maps?
But observers were quick to point out that something wasn't quite right with the animated tour over the Rockies, across mighty British Columbia, and finally reaching Kitimat on the Pacific Coast.
The Douglas Channel looked like a wide, open bay. Dozens of islands and narrow, twisting and turning passages no longer existed:
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