Social license, assign it to whichever group(s) you like. I don't think the opposition to pipelines has anything to do with the destination being China. It has to do with a risky product going through environmentally sensitive areas. It would get no more support if the product were bound for the EU, or Australia. Plus since there's not any energy produced on the island and no refining what would we do build a pipeline from mill bay to every gas station?
Ever asked yourself why we aren't protesting cruise ships? Zero necessity to their existence, zero economic benefits to the island and most of the province, massive amounts of bunker fuel plying the inside passage, owned by foreign national companies. Sounds like everything we don't want. Is it because the lights look so cool coming up the coast?
So are you saying you want a pipeline from the mainland here to the island to get away from barge and tanker shipments? That is what the thread is about after all. I'm not sure since you have 't addressed my repeated question and went on to building pipelines on the island instead. Product would still need to get to the island somehow.