Sentences with phrase «oil pipeline expansion»

West Coast Environmental Law applauds two of Vancouver's elected bodies — Vancouver City Council and the Vancouver Parks Board — for passing resolutions to take a formal position on the proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion project, and associated oil tanker traffic.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - The chief executive of Canada's Suncor Energy Inc said on Wednesday he expected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to move in the «next few weeks» to ensure that Kinder Morgan Canada's Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion goes ahead.

And yes, the Dow has a heavy component of large industrial and energy companies which have recently soared on expectations that President Trump and his administration will sponsor new infrastructure spending projects and oil pipeline expansion.

Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing plans for massive coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.

Not exact matches

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.

The only options for Canada's oil producers are the Trans Mountain expansion, which will triple the line's existing capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 bpd, taking Alberta to Canada's Pacific Coast and Enbridge's Line 3 expansion to Wisconsin, which will boost the pipeline's capacity and is much more likely to move forward.

The speech to the «Oil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure — pipelines, in other words — to get Alberta oil to far - flung markeOil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure — pipelines, in other words — to get Alberta oil to far - flung markeoil to far - flung markets.

The Trans Mountain expansion almost triples the capacity of the existing pipeline, which is designed to carry crude from Canada's oil sands to the West Coast.

For comparison, shipping costs for a barrel of oil by pipeline and tanker from Edmonton to China were estimated at less than $ 8 / barrel in the TransMountain Pipeline Expansion application — equivalent to $ 1.36 / GJ.

Notley and Bilous have said the Trans Mountain expansion is critical because Alberta's crude oil sells at a sharp discount on the North American market due to pipeline bottlenecks and to a lack of access to a better price on overseas markets.

He said regulatory confusion and delays in Canada have prevented the timely completion of pipeline projects such as the Trans Mountain expansion, leading to difficulty in getting crude oil to markets and the current steeper - than - usual discounts being paid for Canadian oilsands crude compared with benchmark New York - traded oil.

The costs of the discount are increasing as delays continue for all three major proposed oil pipelines to export more oil from Western Canada, including Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion, Enbridge's Line 3 replacement, and TransCanada's Keystone XL.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday his province will support Alberta in the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by introducing its own legislation on oil exports.

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.

In this case, the pipeline expansion was further complicated by the fact that a related Enbridge pipeline involved in oil imports from Canada spilled nearly one million gallons of oil in Marshall, Mich., in July 2010 after tape intended to prevent corrosion on the pipeline failed.

And as if to make room for more foes in the federation, Kenney also hinted he could cut off oil exports to B.C. if Premier John Horgan, another New Democrat, takes action to block the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The recent history of pipeline and oil tanker disasters gives British Columbia good reason to be cautious about approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion,...

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Big Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil sanOil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil sanoil sands.

In Alberta, the overwhelming consensus is that it centres on the pipelines themselves and the expansion of Canada's oil producing capacity (77 % say this).

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said «the whole economy would grind to a halt» if the B.C. court rules the province has the authority to regulate the flow of oil from the pipeline expansion.

Growth in Canadian crude oil production has outpaced expansions in pipeline takeaway capacity and, along with past pipeline outages, has driven Canadian crude oil prices lower and increased Canadian crude Continue Reading

Update re: pipelines and oil production «If there were no more pipeline expansions, I would have to slow down,» the Cenovus executive told The Globe and Mail's editorial board.»

First, it announced last week the purchase, reversal and proposed expansion of the Seaway pipeline, which will eventually move 400,000 barrels per day of oil from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast.

Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau can't have it both ways when he supports expansion of the country's oil pipeline network, while expressing a commitment...

Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

On Thursday, fellow prairie province Saskatchewan entered into the war, announcing it will consider limits on its out - of - province oil shipments if B.C. continues its efforts to delay the pipeline expansion project.While Saskatchewan likely would not be shipping oil on the proposed pipeline, the province has been negatively impacted by the projects continued delays.

The BC Liberals have said the Trans Mountain expansion would be subject to the same conditions set out by the premier last summer for new heavy oil pipelines.

This week Alberta Premier Rachel Notley issued her latest threat, stating that Alberta would cease shipping oil unless the British Columbia government approved the $ 7.4 - billion pipeline expansion project.

Opponents of Bill C - 51 claimed that new spy laws passed by the former Conservative government with support from the Liberals could target Canadian citizens who oppose the expansion of oil pipelines.

How can it be that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — which, if built, will almost assuredly increase the GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would undermine Canada's climate change plan?

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

The Alberta government has introduced legislation that would give it the power to restrict the export of natural gas, crude oil and refined products as part of its effort to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion gets built.

to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

McKay cites his own recent three - part investigative series for The Energy Mix as «an evidence - based argument that there is no credible business case to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

Last week, Bill McCaffrey, chief executive of oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp., said his company is considering such exports as it becomes easier to move Canadian crude to Houston through expansions of the pipeline network.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

The proposal is the latest in a series of planned pipelines and expansion projects as a flood of crude from the oil sands and the Bakken shale oil field stretches existing networks.

Fracking has expanded to the majority of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, adjacent to the Enbridge pipeline which is seeking expansion from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day of dilbit, or tar sands oil.

A third pipeline, called the Sandpiper, will move fracked oil through the north country, crossing pristine watersheds, the headwaters of the Mississippi and then pour ed into a set of newly proposed refinery expansions, pipelines and possibly tankers in the Great Lakes region.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.

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.

She said that the aftereffects of oil sands drilling that would come along with the expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D.

She said that the aftereffects of oil sands drilling that would come along with the expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D. «It is with great honor that I come here today to ask President Obama to stand with us for Mother Earth against Father Greed,» Plume said.

The expanded pipeline is expected to transport an additional 590,000 barrels of oil per day: 890,000 after the expansion, compared to 300,000 today (Kinder Morgan website).

Canadian producers share an uncertain future with the oil industry, but higher costs and opposition to expansion and pipelines bring extra hardship.