Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the province will buy the Trans Mountain
oil pipeline project if that's what it takes to get it built.
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the province will buy the Trans Mountain
oil pipeline project if that's what it takes to get it built.
Not exact matches
«Rail and supporting non-
pipeline modes should be capable, as was
projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude
oil production to markets
if there were no additional
pipeline projects approved.»
If you look at the Keystone
project map, you will see that the
pipeline will pick up production from those two regions, largely bypass the Midwestern region, and deliver
oil to the Gulf Coast.
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.
In March, the US State Department stated that the
project was unlikely to have much impact on the rate at which Canada's
oil sands are developed, suggesting that the
oil would be transported by rail
if the
pipeline were not built.
If oil sands
oil eventually finds an easy outlet to the Gulf Coast — perhaps through the proposed Keystone XL
pipeline project — the price for upgraded synthetic
oil will likely rise to reflect the world market value, currently $ 110 per barrel.
«Folks made it known that Vermonters, and our friends from the Northeast, oppose the proposed tar sands
pipeline, and that this
project will face a concerted and stiff local resistance
if and when big
oil decides to try and move it forward,» said David Vandeusen, conservation organizer for the Vermont Sierra Club.
We could do that —
if radical greens in the Obama Administration, United Nations and eco pressure groups would end their ideological opposition to leasing, drilling, fracking, Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development, Canadian
oil sands, the Keystone
pipeline and countless other
projects.
As to the controversial Keystone
Pipeline, which would carry tar sands
oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, Obama said that the
pipeline would not be approved
if it worsens climate change: «our national interest will be served only
if this
project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»
In fact,
if all of the
oil - by - rail
projects were built, they would be capable of moving 720,000 barrels per day — that's more
oil capacity than either of the controversial
pipelines planned in British Columbia.
If both
pipeline projects go through, they would carry more than 1 million barrels of
oil per day, more than Keystone XL.
So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan
pipeline that ships
oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking —
if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the
project would create.
The $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain
project would triple the flow of heavy
oil products from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C. Texas - based Kinder Morgan has warned it will pull the plug by month's end
if hurdles to expanding the
pipeline through British Columbia remain.