The problem, of course, is that while companies like Enbridge are putting dollars on the table to build pipelines, governments are unwilling to make comparable sums available for these alternatives. And yet in Canada a minimal national carbon tax of $10 a ton would raise $5 billion a year, the sum in question—and unlike a one-off pipeline investment, it would do so year after year.19 If policy options like that were on the table, the jobs vs. environment dichotomy would all but evaporate.
