Premier David Eby has recited his objections to a new pipeline to the north coast so often in the past year, they flow now like oil from a … you know what.

He was at it again hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed the memo of understanding on various energy projects, including the pipeline.

He did an extended half-hour denunciation of the idea with heaping helpings of scorn. “No proponent … no route … no permits … this project does not have the support of coastal First Nations …”

Comparing it to all the other ideas for major new priority projects, he said that it’s “not even in the top 20.”

“It will not employ anybody, because it does not exist.”

His anti-pipeline set piece is so familiar now that anyone following this story can recite it along with him.

But all the rhetoric doesn’t look to have accomplished anything, given that the MOU sets a new pipeline as a........

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