In this piece of opinion and research piece in The Tyee, veteran journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk demolishes any notion that the Northern Gateway pipeline is a nation-building project for Canada. On the contrary, “I predict there will be a momentous clash of civilizations over this pipeline and its many cousins,” he writes. “On the no side will stand the defenders of the nation’s honour, or what’s left of it: ordinary Canadians who care about salmon, water, democracy, treaty rights, coastal wildlife, First Nations, economic resilience, and the future of our children. On the yes side will gather the nation-sellers: the evidence deniers, the water polluters and petro-politicians who would embrace climate instability and acidify the oceans for a few oil dollars.”