Is Keystone PL The Model For The Proposed New Windsor/Detroit Project

The future for the Keystone PL in Canada has changed rather dramatically hasn't  it!  How many are still really shocked by the US decision on it that has effectively killed it forever or for at least a significant number of  years.

It certainly seems that the decision by the US President has effectively killed it for a very long time even if it is decided one day to build it after all.  That certainly won't happen until a new US President is elected who will be in favour of constructing it and who will  have the consent of  Congress to do so.  That will take some time too before it happens if it ever does.

Of course, in my opinion, it provides a model to be considered in Canada by the Government here  for our crossing in Windsor/Detroit and by the US Government in its country.

Considering how long the Windsor/Detroit construction exercise has been going  on---even longer compared with the timing fiasco in Alberta---can one make the argument that its conclusion will be similar to the one in Alberta?  In other words, a Government Bridge will not be built. 

Of course BUT rather, consider that a second Ambassador Bridge will be allowed to be built by the Ambassador Bridge Company very soon in my opinion right near the existing one as it has been trying to do for many years.

There is an interesting question that will have to be decided between the Ambassador Bridge Company and whichever Governments are ultimately involved.  Who will own what percentage of the new bridge or rather perhaps, the entire number of bridge crossings here.  Now THAT should be an interesting decision shouldn't it.

How long will that take too? 

I thought you might want to read part of this article that brings this type of question public.  So far the question has not officially risen for a Windsor/Detroit crossing but will it be soon?  Then what will the parties negotiate to get this key bridge project built immediately to support our region's future and how long will it take:

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/what-really-killed-keystone-xl/

"What really killed Keystone XL? The economic case simply faded

Michael McCullough 1 day ago Canadian Business 

What are we to take away from U.S. President Barack Obama’s formal rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline project on Friday? Is there anything proponent TransCanada Corp. and the Canadian government could have done to change the outcome? 

Probably not. This was overwhelmingly a U.S. decision made for social and political reasons out of their hands, and without a sufficiently compelling economic argument to override it. There was a window in Obama’s first term, when Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State overseeing the process, when the economic case was stronger—including a 10% unemployment rate across the U.S.—and KXL’s opponents had not yet marshaled their forces to equate the project with continued dependence on planet-killing fossil fuels in the public’s mind. But that window closed and the political calculus for the pipeline only worsened thereafter.

 

Keystone’s backers didn’t win themselves any friends with their arrogance and sense of entitlement, however. Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s characterization of the pipeline’s approval as a “no brainer” showed no respect for the other side (including opponents in Canada) and left them no opportunity for a graceful concession to defeat. Moreover the Conservatives’ lack of a substantive climate change strategy gave the Obama administration nothing to answer the environmental wing of its voter base for approving the project.
 

Meanwhile TransCanada’s insistence on business as usual—relying on the courts to clear its right-of-way for KXL’s southern leg (which was indeed built)—showed a similar lack of emotional intelligence and served to create enemies even in the traditionally oil-friendly state of Texas.

 

If there is a lesson for Canada’s oilpatch it is the dangers of its own insularity. So much of the oil and gas industry is concentrated on a few blocks of downtown Calgary that dealmakers don’t have to leave the Plus 15 system of indoor walkways to make all their meetings. They mostly come into contact with like-minded people and as a result misjudge or don’t register the societal shifts taking place in the broader population—even it their own province, as evidenced by Alberta’s provincial election result this year."