ย Truckers For Pipelines organized a convoy to show Prime Minister Justin Trudeauโs government their dissatisfaction with the current state of the oil and gas industry.
โWe obviously need pipelines,โ said Laurie Ryan, Laurlee Energy Servicesโ owner. โWe need our product to go to the coast either wayโeast or west or northโand get some fair market value for our product and share the wealth to the rest of the country, including our families.โ
Two days after Ottawa gave Albertaโs energy sector $1.6 billion, the opposition leader said oil and gas workers โdonโt need handouts.โ
โGive a province $1.6 billion you might feed them for a couple of weeks, but let them build a pipeline to get our energy to market and you can feed them for a generation,โ Scheer said.
The federal government purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion earlier this year, but the expansion hit a wall when the Federal Court of Appeal ruled the liberals did not consult enough with Indigenous and environmental groups.
Despite the large purchase price, Scheer believes โthere are politicians across the country that donโt believe in our energy sector, that donโt want to see it developed or expanded.โ
โBut conservatives are joining common cause with those across the country that do want to support this sector.โ
More than 2,200 trucks participated in the convoy, a spokesperson for Truckers For Pipelines said.
Leduc RCMP said there were extreme traffic delays while the trucks drove towards the rally.
