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This has been discussed on here before and you will never make headway in this discussion with facts alone.
This is basically 2 or 3 agenda-driven anti-oil, environmental, and anti-MMGW groups that will never be swayed by any facts away from their pre-conceived notions they use to back up their stances.
There is some 'lateral violence' among the Indian communities. But that is largely agenda-driven as well as with other issues akin to the casino boom, etc. This was largely proven to be unwarranted, as it is with a lot of issues.
It is very good to be cognizant of the various concerns and learn and grow from past projects. Obviously, today the newer techniques and technology should be better than when the older pipelines were built. There are various other projects that are ongoing and proposed now.
No amount of demonstrations about how much safer pipelines are to transport oil as opposed to railcars will sway the environmental group.
No amount of facts showing how far away we are from having clean energy and not needing oil will sway the anti-oil group.
No discussion is even allowed with the anti-MMGW group because they refuse to see any other issue except theirs.
Certainly some concessions by Canada would have to be made and even Trudeau realizes this. Even TransCanada Corporation has acknowledged that the critics are mostly wrong about it being an 'export pipeline'. This is an agenda-driven talking point for them. They ignore any data from IHS or any other group that disputes their claims. When the numbers clearly show 30%-50% would be used in the USA.
Even the Globalists talking points fall apart on this. They want one World economy but on this issue want to isolate Canada. Some of the other group actually hope this would deter the entire endeavor and the oil would never be used. But if an argument can be made that this version would be cheaper and more efficient for world-wide usage they still refuse to support it. They simply say Canada should spend an enormous amount of money to build their own refineries and spend many more years to get them online. Not to mention that transporting by rail is 2-3 times as expensive as a pipeline to get to the refineries.
This has become a very weird issue that both sides have latched onto and made way more political than it should be. There are many other projects that are inter-continental though more than one country. For example, there are over 2000 pipelines and none have faced this extent of resistance.
It is strange that in this instance even the pro-illegals group support isolating Canada, who is a great ally and trade partner to the USA.
This is not a factual argument so much as an idealogical one. The greater good of the country or even the world does not matter in this type of confrontation but only the agenda. 
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