Dogwood Newsletter Dec. 7, 2019
North Vancouver Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson, formerly the minister of fisheries, oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, was sworn into his new role in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 18. He takes over the portfolio from Catherine McKenna and is tasked with pushing through a controversial pipeline project in B.C.
Wilkinson intends to carry through on the Liberal’s plan to transition to clean energy technology and said the Trans Mountain pipeline project will help.
According to ‘Dogwood’, Alberta premier Jason Kenney demanded Justin Trudeau replace Catherine McKenna as environment minister, claiming she was “anti-pipeline”. They says he’s to work promoting Kenney’s #1 priority: a massive expansion of the Alberta oil sands – and the pipelines and oil tankers it will require.
Kai Nagata, Communications Director at Dowood writes, “Wilkinson may be a Liberal, but when it comes to the Trans Mountain oil tanker project he’s on the same team as Jason Kenney.
"Wilkinson has final say over Teck’s gargantuan new oil sands mine proposal. The Frontier project would be twice the size of Vancouver, pumping out 260,000 more barrels of bitumen a day. But it can only be built if Trans Mountain is there to carry away the oil.
That’s why Wilkinson is on a media tour, greenwashing the pipeline as part of ‘Canada’s climate plan’”.
