The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis by George Hoberg

Author:George Hoberg [Hoberg, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Climate change; keep it in the ground; activism; pipelines; oil sands; resistance; renewable energy; energy politics; indigenous movements, Global Warming & Climate Change, Environmental Policy, political science, science, Public Policy
ISBN: 9780262543088
Google: RSk5EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-08-17T00:25:21.858523+00:00

Municipal Opposition

Municipal governments have less legal leverage than provinces to block a transprovincial pipeline, as the court cases involving Burnaby and the Trans Mountain pipeline reinforced (chapter 6; Olszynski 2018). But the concerted opposition from the Montreal region’s mayors threatened the political viability of Energy East. For instance, former Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose expressed skepticism over TransCanada’s ability to build Energy East given the opposition from the MMC. She stated, “I don’t see Energy East getting through Montreal, and that’s just the political reality of it,” adding, “If you think that Denis Coderre in Montreal and the groups that have gotten organized against Energy East are going to give the government social license to go through Montreal, I don’t believe it. I’d like to be more optimistic” (Ambrose quoted in Scotti 2017). Reactions to the MMC’s anti-pipeline position from western Canadian politicians such as Brad Wall, Brian Jean, and Rachel Notley also illustrate how seriously they considered this opposition from local governments to be. Despite the Montreal region’s lack of legal power to veto the Energy East Pipeline, its political power carries significant weight.

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