Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau can’t have it both ways when he supports expansion of the country’s oil pipeline network, while expressing a commitment to combat climate change, Dalhousie University physicist Thomas J. Duck says in an opinion piece on iPolitics.ca. “Building new pipelines that would be expected to operate for 50 years or more is simply not consistent with a long-term strategy to combat climate change,” Duck writes. More pipelines transporting more oil faster would exacerbate climate change and “lock us into fossil fuel infrastructure, at a time when countries are making plans to move in another direction—in their own best interests. Our capital and human resources can be spent in better ways.”
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