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Trump’s first hostile move will come at Canada’s northwest border with the U.S.

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by Karl Nerenberg - December 13, 2024 - RABBLE.ca

Serious consequences for Canada’s environment, wildlife, and northern communities are on the horizon as a second Trump presidency looms.

EXCERPT: "As rabble parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg writes this week, Trump will, without a shred of a doubt, happily poke Canada’s eye with a sharp stick in one area of looming cross-border conflict: the North Slope that straddles the northern parts of Alaska and the Yukon and the extreme western Northwest Territories.

Trump and most Republicans object to even the most modest and reasonable restrictions on fossil fuel exploitation. That’s where the North Slope in the Western Arctic comes into the picture.

This is a vast, and rich – but fragile – region, where scores of rivers flow into the Beaufort Sea, creating an irreplaceable habitat for hundreds of bird, fish and land species.

During his first term, Donald Trump was bound and determined to hand out leases for oil and gas drilling on the North Slope, and he almost succeeded. The resistance of some parts of the U.S. federal bureaucracy, and of some surprising allies in the financial sector on Wall Street, slowed down Trump’s efforts.

Now, we can all be sure the minute he is back in the oval office, Donald Trump will be proceeding to revive drilling and exploration in the fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, just over the border with Canada. . . . ."

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