This is ridiculous and will…

This is ridiculous and will only result in expensive lawsuits, and years of uncertainty and delay for industry. This can be seen in the pipeline situation.

What should be focused on is land planning, in conjunction with the federal government, for establishing clear areas for this kind of development, in consultation with stakeholders, so that constitutional challenges are not derailing things, and so that everyone knows where the acceptable corridors are. There has to be some rationality in the way we do things, we can't keep operating like this, between ever stringent red tape, then the opposite total gutting of it.