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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 marke
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 marke
oil 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 san
Oil is also acutely aware that a major new
pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge
expansion plans for the
oil san
oil 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.