{"id":1273,"date":"2014-10-29T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2021-12-06T06:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:35:23","slug":"transcanada-vastly-exaggerating-energy-easts-ability-to-reduce-overseas-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/publication\/1273\/transcanada-vastly-exaggerating-energy-easts-ability-to-reduce-overseas-oil-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada vastly exaggerating Energy East\u2019s ability to reduce overseas oil imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Update: The TransCanada Energy East pipeline was cancelled in October of 2017. Read more about this victory <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/issues\/transform-energy\/510\/victory-people-power-just-stopped-another-pipeline-bye-bye-energy-east\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>By repeating false information, TransCanada is misleading Canadians and investors in a desperate attempt to justify its Energy East pipeline and tanker proposal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/overseas-oil-imports.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports-232x300.png\" alt=\"TransCanada vastly exaggerating Energy East\u2019s ability to reduce overseas oil imports\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports-768x995.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports-790x1024.png 790w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports-262x340.png 262w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2014\/10\/overseas-oil-imports.png 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TransCanada erroneously claims that Energy East would benefit Canadians because the project would eliminate Canada\u2019s dependence on foreign oil, repeatedly stating that Eastern Canadian refineries currently import 86 per cent of their oil from overseas sources, including Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>TransCanada\u2019s claim is false. And it\u2019s inaccurate no matter how often the company repeats it. Energy East is an export pipeline, not a made-in-Canada energy solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/overseas-oil-imports.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the report [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-1056 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/GP04IOF.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Rainbow Warrior Open Boat in Melbourne\" title=\"Rainbow Warrior Open Boat in Melbourne\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Greenpeace is a people-powered, science-based, and action-oriented organization that does not take money from corporations or governments. This means we rely on individual donations from generous people like you to carry out our work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/donate\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Take action\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By repeating false information, TransCanada is misleading Canadians and investors in a desperate attempt to justify its Energy East pipeline and tanker proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,32],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-oil","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51484,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/51484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}