What does this say when Canadians don't even want the pipeline...
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Harper Risks Political Damage Allowing Gateway Pipeline
By Andrew Mayeda and Theophilos Argitis
Jun 4, 2014 7:00 AM ET
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper risks a political backlash in British Columbia ahead of next year’s election if his government approves Enbridge Inc. (ENB)’s Northern Gateway pipeline, a Bloomberg-Nanos poll shows.
Forty-seven percent of respondents said they’d be less likely to vote for Harper’s Conservative Party if the government approves the project,
compared with 11 percent who would be more willing to back the party, the survey found. Among the 32 percent of respondents who didn’t declare how they voted in 2011, they were five times less likely to support the Conservatives than back them if the pipeline is approved.
The results present a challenge for Harper, who has called Canada an emerging “energy superpower” and made it a national priority to build more energy infrastructure. At the same time, a straight up approval could be unpopular in a province where the Conservatives hold 21 of 36 districts in the legislature and will be key to securing another victory in 2015 elections.
“The Harper government needs to tread carefully on this issue because of the potential negative fall-out for local Conservative candidates in B.C.,” said Nik Nanos, chairman of Nanos Research Group.
Among women, 55 percent said they’d be less likely to vote for Harper if the government supports the project,
which would ship crude from Alberta’s oil sands to the Pacific coast for export to Asia. Thirty-nine percent of men also would be less likely to back the governing party.
Harper’s cabinet must decide by June 17 whether to permit the pipeline. The government could also refer the project back to the regulatory panel that reviewed the route for nearly four years. In December, the panel recommended approval, subject to 209 conditions. The Bloomberg-Nanos poll also found that 34 percent of British Columbians want Harper to reject the C$6.5 billion ($6 billion) route, 33 percent want it delayed for further review and 29 percent want it approved.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-04/harper-risks-political-damage-allowing-gateway-pipeline.html
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