The champions of climate justice, folks. Couldn't even wait for the ink to dry on the IPCC report before giving this the go-ahead.
From the sounds of it, this is a political calculation to assuage the one provincial Liberal government and a historically broke part of the country, despite opposition in cabinet. Once again, Libs demonstrate that they'd love to save the planet if not for those pesky politics. Absolutely fucked.
Everyone is a NIMBY until it's about fossil fuel infrastructure, from what I have witnessed.