Canada to fast track oil pipeline designed to diversify economy away from US

Commenters focused on practical and economic doubts about the proposed pipeline. One user (jleyank) warned of difficult ground conditions in northern muskeg and questioned whether engineers could find sufficiently firm footing, contrasting that with mountain routes that at least bear weight. The same commenter raised a market risk: if global oil prices or demand normalize in three to five years, the project might not generate enough return to justify the build, and they wondered whether anyone was planning complementary refinery capacity. Another participant (ChrisArchitect) flagged a duplicate link, which the original poster (toomuchtodo) acknowledged.

Others drilled into logistics and routing. Bell-cot pointed out the government’s one-year review target but noted no construction timeline was given, argued that building through British Columbia’s mountain ranges would be technically hard and that the pipeline must be finished before any oil can flow. Bell-cot also suggested a lower‑grade alternative - route a pipeline to Hudson Bay and use icebreakers to service tankers in winter - while acknowledging that reach to Asian markets would be longer; another commenter countered that sailing tankers around Africa might still be faster and cheaper than a costly mountain crossing.