As a result, you may see a small increase in refining margins for those refiners with
firm shipping capacity on Energy East, along with a decrease in refining margins for in - land refineries in Alberta.
On the other hand, if the province decided not to become involved in the
firm shipping market, they would distort the signals received by the regulators in terms of the demand for
shipping services, leaving the system short of
capacity and lowering the value of Canadian oil in the process.