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Rex Murphy:  Environmentalist opposition and obstruction is what created the political and public atmosphere that enabled or gave plausible justification for the blizzard of regulations, endless hearings, court challenges and judgments that led to the cancellation or abandonment of pipeline projects and contributed to Fort McMurray’s precarious state after both the fire and the price decline. All of these elements combined to rob Alberta and Canada of billions of dollars of needed revenue and tens of thousands of jobs, incited dangerous tensions in the Confederation, and stimulated foreign donations to professional anti-oil activists in their campaign to kill the oilsands and impede and obstruct any element of energy development.