....because it's our prerogative to make those decisions. what arrogance.
why not just cut the pipeline open at the border and pump the oil into the fields? why not dump it on the crops, agent orange style? you will have our oil whether you want it or not!
while i'm not convinced that this is over yet (we'll need to wait until the court process finishes, and i suspect that biden's successor flip-flops, if they allow for it; there's just no political value in maintaining the permit so long as construction is halted, anyways), the truth is that the western provinces have known this is coming for decades and have sat on their hands and let their economies rot. things are legitimately bad right now, but they only have themselves to blame for it.
they will need to transition to a clean economy like everybody else - and that is the value of supporting this. hopefully it wakes them up a little, once they've stopped crying like the overgrown children that they are.
and, if they won't grow up, let them throw their tantrums while they freeze in the dark.