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This is another good depiction of how closely intertwined Canada and the US are. Not only are pipelines in Canada profitable for US companies but those wildfires are already affecting the air in US cities several miles/kilometres from the border. Nature does not have borders. Fire and smoke do not stop at imaginary human delineations. We already have to borrow firefighters from other countries to keep up. Canada has a lot of water compared to other countries but that’s dwindling. Pipelines already poison waters nearby and destroy animal habitats. According to this Canadian government stats site on pipeline incidents (https://www.bst.gc.ca/eng/stats/pipeline/2025/ssep-sspo-2025.html) there’s been over 60 pipeline fires in the last 10 years (16 were explosions) and about 350 incidents of “product released” (mostly natural gas). “Raw natural gas (before processing) is composed primarily of methane, and may also contain varying amounts of ethane, propane, butane, and pentane (commonly referred to as natural gas liquids - NGLs)” https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-sources/fossil-fuels/natural-gas-primer There’s 811 reported active fires across Canada (https://fireradar.ca/active-wildfires-canada). Half of those fires are in the provinces along this proposed new pipeline. #CanPol #USpol #Wildfires #Pipelines https://ottawa.place/@jd/116930414288563981