PIPE DREAMS OF THE GREEN PARTY

Churchill, war, fascism — that’s the evolving climate-action language. In May’s vision, virtually every element of Canadian state policy will turn on the climate change fight.

Green policy rejects any new pipeline, all fracking, a single additional oil well or increase in heavy oil production.

Canada would ban oil imports and support itself with Canadian oil during this forced march to zero emissions.

But that western oil would be shipped east by rail tanker car, not by pipeline, in ever-diminishing quantities.

After 2050, oil could not be used for fuel at all, only as feedstock for plastics and other petrochemical products. Refiners could only use solid bitumen.