Tuesday, May 18, 2010

CBC News - North - Only 10 Mackenzie pipeline recommendations OKed

CBC News - North - Only 10 Mackenzie pipeline recommendations OKed

This headline's a bit misleading. The Joint Review Panel approved the MVP project, with a list of 176 conditions. As this headline points out, the Canadian and NWT governments have accepted as written only 10 of them, a seemingly tiny fraction.

What the reader discovers in the body of the news item is that 77 other recommendations may be acceptable with modification, and that 61 others are out of the scope of these governments (i.e. they need to be addressed by regulators and proponents).

1 comment:

  1. Yes, but most people don't read the body of a news article...they just see the headline and go off and form opinions.

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