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The agreement stresses that this pipeline will be privately constructed and financed — unlike the publicly owned Trans Mountain — and the intention is to have some Indigenous co-ownership.

That ["project of 'national interest'"] designation means the pipeline — and possibly the tankers associated with transporting the oil — could be exempted from some federal laws. Those include the Fisheries Act, the Species At Risk Act and the Impact Assessment Act, among others.

Canada is committing to "collaborate with Alberta to provide a clear and efficient approval process for the Alberta bitumen pipeline."

Importantly, Alberta is promising to "collaborate with B.C. to ensure British Columbians share substantial economic and financial benefits of the proposed pipeline."

Ottawa will also suspend the proposed federal oil and gas emissions cap and Alberta's requirements under the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER).

But the two sides are committed to increasing the industrial carbon price in the province — moving it from $95 a tonne now to a minimum of $130 a tonne. The federal government had previously demanded that price rise to $170 a tonne by 2030.

Both sides say they are committed to net-zero by 2050, despite the MOU that has the potential to turbocharge conventional energy production.

To help achieve that goal, both Canada and Alberta are moving ahead with Pathways Plus, an Alberta-based carbon capture, utilization and storage project, which could reduce the emissions intensity of exports from the province's oilsands.

The two sides are also agreeing to dramatically lower methane emissions associated with the oil patch — a 75 per cent reduction target relative to 2014 emissions levels by 2035.

And the third reason for the Klingons and their inclusion in The Last Starship is connected to Starfleet Academy, so we can’t really talk about it except to say that we’re laying some exciting groundwork for that series.

Hmm...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 45 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Well, euthanizing 1/3 of the population would certainly help alleviate the housing crisis...

I'm the first aboard the "Star Trek contains multitudes" train, for sure.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Discovery never had a connection to Abrams/Bad Robot, unless you were to count Alex Kurtzman, but he's been involved with every series of the new era, so...you kind of can't?

In any case, I agree - the D&D movie was a lot of fun, and while I wouldn't want a ST movie to strike that tone, I'm interested to see what they cook up.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

After breathing new life into high-profile IP like the Spider-Man franchise and Dungeons & Dragons, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are looking to boldly go where no directors have gone before with a very popular franchise. Sources tell Deadline, the duo are coming on to write, produce and are attached to direct a new original Star Trek film for Paramount. They will produce under their GoldDay banner.

Based on this, it seems like they've completely broken from JJ Abrams/Bad Robot - they were seemingly always connected to previous projects.

That's been a pretty common commentary, and I get it, but I think there's room for just about all genres - they've done their fair share of horror-tinged episodes over the years.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed - it's pretty unlikely that you'd be able to prove something like that.

I suppose you could try to apply precedents surrounding HIV disclosure, but I think it'd be a tough sell.

Edit: And to be clear, even in that situation, we're talking about disclosure, not actual treatment-related choices.

Not a big shock - there have been allegations surrounding the guy for years.

It was certainly the case when I was in school, and that was decades ago.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that's pretty universal, and it's been the case for decades.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's the perfect crime! The feds create a problem with a solution that's under provincial jurisdiction...

Honestly, I'd take this with a small grain of salt.

I don't doubt Variety's reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while I'm sure they've "moved on" from whatever they had cooking, I think it's also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.

We'll see what happens - it's been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I don't expect that to change any time soon.

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