No one said that this Federal decision was a reconciliation. All they said was it was balanced, in the sense of meeting the different needs and interests of diverse Canadians and geographies, and of responding to the different socio-economic narratives in metropolitan and rural/small town areas. It  is true that further pipelines will create more environmental challenges. It is also true that they will create further jobs and economic sustainability, hence allowing us to fund in the short and medium term environmental actions, and still hold ourselves together as diverse communities and peoples. In the much longer term, we will need much more radical thinking on all sides, and that includes re-thinking the life in both cities that vacuum up public attention and finances, and rural areas that are so dependent now on an old industrial economy. The author fails to think deeply enough on all sides.