And then — Atlantic Canada was just whipped by a nasty storm. There’s flooding in Cape Breton and Newfoundland, and although the damage does not seem nearly as severe or widespread as what British Columbia is enduring, there are some parts of the TransCanada Highway that have been washed away.
Canada exists today because prior generations of Canadians built really solid bones that have held up our national economy for decades. But that infrastructure was built for a different world. I just don’t mean the likely growing threats posed by climate change. I also mean the growing signs that our traditional friend and ally, the United States, has gone kind of weird on us.
If there is any good news here, it’s that we’re going to have to substantially overhaul a lot of our infrastructure anyway, if we hope to come even close to reaching our carbon-reduction targets. This gives us an opportunity to quite literally build back better, and replace aging infrastructure so it is more resilient to the coming changes, both climatic and geopolitical.
It is hard to see much evidence that this is an issue that Canadians in positions of power have really clued into, and the general public doesn’t seem much more tuned-in. We might need to endure a few more B.C.-level thrashings before we start to get the message So in a way, Suzuki was right. Except, it doesn’t really matter if the pipeline is blown up or simply washed out by a flood or turned off by a Democratic governor with a domestic agenda that isn’t swayed one way or the other by 15 million neighbours freezing solid. We’re going to have to think about how we’re going to cope with all these challenges. Now would be a good time to start.
As usual, the closer you look the more depressing it becomes. In BC, wildfire control personnel can't cross pipelines with heavy equipment without taking special precautions, if at all. They use thinner pipe away from designated crossings. Crawler tractors weren't meant to fly.
Penalties for sabotaging critical infrastructure need to be increased. Canada and Canadians cannot tolerate eco-terrorism. coastalgaslink
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