Line 9 Oil Pipeline Decision from Justin Trudeau
Environmental activists and industry giants are squaring up on both sides of the border — with the prime minister caught in the middle
Shelley Bacon’s workforce has produced low-voltage power cables for a quarter of a century from a factory on the outskirts of Brockville, Ontario. Now, though, the company faces a grave threat to its continued existence.
The Line 9 oil pipeline, which carries 300,000 barrels a day from the US-Canada border to refineries in Ontario and Quebec, and through Brockville, could run dry if Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of neighbouring Michigan, succeeds in shutting down an earlier phase of the network. That could leave Canada’s two most populous provinces with half the fuel they need.
