Martyn Brown: Why Trudeau’s pet pipeline will not solve B.C.’s gas price woes
Of the many myths about the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (TMEP) project, none is more fatuous than the false hope that it will necessarily reduce British Columbians’ gas prices.
More pipe = more capacity = greater supply of light oil and refined products = lower gas prices, is their pitch, on behalf of Alberta’s tarsands producers.
Makes sense, on the surface: like skimming a bitumen slick with an oil boom.
If you really believe that pumping more tarsands crude across B.C. will reduce your gas pains, Donald Trump has a Make Alberta Great Again hat with your name on it.