Sentences with phrase «gateway oil pipeline»

Drove continued change to finishing practices; worked on the MSC assessment and B.C. Water Act; inspired 1,000 Canadian classrooms to plant milkweed to create Monarch butterfly havens; rallied against the Northern Gateway oil pipeline

But the prime minister may take more of the 180 days allowed to ponder assent of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline than his supporters in the oilpatch expect.

Considering the opposition to Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline to the Pacific, the gas export play is hardly certain.

We witnessed an analogous situation in 2005 when PetroChina invested in Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway oil pipeline project, then withdrew its support two years later (whereupon Enbridge shelved the project).

Not exact matches

As pipeline politics came to dominate the North American energy debate, uncertainty over TransCanada's Keystone XL project gave new urgency to other efforts to expand Canada's oil market, including Enbridge's Northern Gateway project.

Victoria businessman David Black has thrown yet another log on the fiery debate over Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline with his proposal to build a $ 13 - billion oil refinery on the province's northern coast.

The Northern Gateway project consists of two pipelines (one to ship oil west, the other to import lighter oil products used to dilute oil sands bitumen) and a marine terminal.

That's despite the fact premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford, in a backgrounder to their recent agreement on the ground rules for building pipelines, warned that oil may end up crossing B.C. by train en route to Asia regardless of whether the Northern Gateway or Trans - Mountain Expansion projects go ahead.

Including Gateway, Enbridge's North American oil pipeline program «is probably the biggest capital expansion in the history of the company,» says Vern Yu, vice-president for business and market development.

Thus the rationale behind North America's most contentious pipeline schemes: TransCanada's Keystone XL and Enbridge's $ 6 - billion Northern Gateway, which aims to pump Alberta oil over the Rockies to a port in Kitimat, B.C.

In addition to oil pipeline company Kinder Morgan, which has established its Trans Mountain Expansion Project office near the pipeline's terminus in suburban Burnaby, Enbridge is reportedly (and belatedly) opening an office to help manage its Northern Gateway application.

July 27, 2012: B.C. Premier Christy Clark announces her government will not support Northern Gateway or any other oil pipeline project unless it meets five conditions, including a «fair share»» of revenues for the province.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

An empty pipeline is not much use, and the oil required to fill Northern Gateway belongs entirely to Alberta.

The proposed 1,177 - kilometre Northern Gateway pipeline would deliver 525,000 barrels of Alberta oil to a tanker terminal in Kitimat, on the north coast of B.C..

Posted by Jeff Rubin on November 3rd, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: Big oil, Energy East, KXL pipeline, Northern Gateway, oil prices, TransCanada • 2 Comments

To be certain, the opposition to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta oil sands products to US markets, and the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil sands products to a new west coast terminal for export to Pacific markets, has caused delays and increased costs to proponents.

(This «Northern Gateway» pipeline is seen by the oil industry as an essential vehicle to develop new markets for Canadian petroleum, especially if the Keystone XL pipeline to move Alberta bitumen to the U.S. Gulf is not approved).

Due to the successful delay of the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian oil companies to consider alternate routes for getting tar sands to market, including the Energy East Pipeline to New Brunswick and the Northern Gateway, which would flow west to Vancouver.

The public - private consultations are helping the department draft a plan to govern the marine area, which includes waters oil tankers would travel on to reach a marine terminal for Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline...»

Both Enbridge with its $ 5.5 - billion Northern Gateway project, and Kinder Morgan with plans to expand an existing West Coast pipeline called Trans Mountain, are working to give oil sands companies access to refineries in China and Asia.

They're also at work in B.C. right now, where lobbyists funded by foreign «radicals,» as Canada's natural resource minister calls them, are working to obstruct and sabotage the hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline that would open up oil sands exports to a world beyond the United States.

Partnerships with Myanmar and Sudan... links to Burmese heroin traffickers... With this cast of characters partnering in the development of the Northern Gateway, you'd think Ethical Oil would be at the front of the line condemning the pipeline.

For Canadians, the public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway project, is an important opportunity for serious stakeholders to discuss the impacts and benefits for our country of a pipeline carrying oil from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C.

Doesn't Sinopec's involvement alone in the Northern Gateway Pipeline make the pipeline just another project of unethical oil?

And if Canadian Big Oil giant Enbridge and its allies in Canada's Federal Government have their way, and the massive Northern Gateway pipeline / tanker route proposal is approved, the whales may leave this place forever.

They will also do all they can to shut down any Pacific Gateway pipeline, any exports to Asia, and ultimately all oil sands operations.

The Northern Gateway Pipeline would be built by the company Enbridge, which already operates a number of oil and gas pipelines and stores across North America.

The project is the Northern Gateway pipeline that would bring oil from the tar sands of Alberta to a proposed tanker terminal at the coast - an initiative supported by China, which could end up the main beneficiary of the oil.

I look at the forecast growth for oil sands output, do the math and come to the conclusion that to move the incremental output to market we need the Keystone AND the Kinder Morgan expansion AND the Northern Gateway AND a pipeline to Eastern Canada.

About foreign interests, The Northern Gateway pipeline is being designed to supply «ethical» crude oil to china at a bargain price which Canada will buy back as finished product for top dollar.

I oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline for a number of reasons, beginning with the fact that the project requires over-turning the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the British Columbia coastline.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

Solomon: Some have said that Enbridge, which is building the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, is a funder of Ethical Oil and that they're using your group to disempower environmentalists that oppose this.

At the same time, the budget bill came freighted with legislation intended to «streamline» environmental review processes in the hope of fast - tracking oil pipelines and other large energy infrastructure projects, and it has handed the Canada Revenue Agency $ 7 million to intensify its scrutiny of environmental charities — especially the ones labelled «foreign radicals» by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in a fiery Globe and Mail op - ed calling for approval of Enbridge's $ 5 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the coast of northern B.C.

The U.S. State Department has accepted assertions that the production of heavy oil will increase regardless of whether Keystone XL is built, because the Northern Gateway pipeline would bring oil for shipment to China.

-LSB-...] Northern Gateway oil pipeline.In this «visual essay,» posted by the Canadian activist Franke James at her Web site, Alice poses a series of questions about the pipeline's environmental risks -LSB-...]

The government and Enbridge Inc. are stepping up their game to push through what is largely seen as an alternative to Keystone XL: the Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Canadian west coast for export to China.

The Northern Gateway pipeline would carry 525,000 barrels per day of tar - sands oil from Alberta to the west coast of British Columbia.

Aboriginal opposition to such proposals as Enbridge Inc.'s $ 6 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline has been a major stumbling block to the Harper Conservatives» aim of shipping large volumes of oil sands - derived crude to the Pacific Coast to be exported to Asia as a way to increase returns.

The Energy East, Trans Mountain and Northern Gateway pipelines would add hundreds of export oil supertankers on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

Will the falling price of oil affect the construction of the proposed Energy East, Trans Mountain, Northern Gateway and other pipelines?

There are many high - profile, contested proposals nationwide, including the Enbridge «Northern Gateway» pipeline that would carry Alberta oil across northern British Columbia en route to Asia, and the controversial «Ring of Fire» mineral discovery, located on or near the traditional lands of several First Nations in Northern Ontario.