Steve Horn reports that in addition to expediting the southern leg, Executive Order 13604 also led to the expediting of 48
other oil pipeline projects.
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.
Not exact matches
It's a network of railroads,
oil pipelines, and
other projects that runs northwest from China through Kazakhstan and Russia.
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.
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.
Since then, the Trans Mountain
project has pitted the NDP - led governments in Alberta and British Columbia against each
other after B.C. proposed new
oil spill regulations that would effectively block new
oil pipelines from reaching the West Coast.
The company, Canada's No. 2
pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and
other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta
oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion)
project would increase climate change.
This is likely to be easier for the more commercially attractive parts of the
project, such as the port development and the
oil pipeline, than
others, most notably the railway.
«Treating this
pipeline facility and company differently than all
other regulated
projects and entities that operate in Vermont would arguably run afoul of federal pre-emption principles that explicitly bar states from regulating
oil pipeline safety; potentially constitute an impermissible attempt to nullify the President's exercise of his foreign affairs power under the U.S. Constitution as reflected in the Presidential Permits issued to Portland Pipe Line and potentially impose an unconstitutional burden on foreign or interstate commerce.»
According to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and
other oil industry groups have been directing state legislators to make public and legislative statements in favor of the
pipeline project, and have provided legislators with draft legislation, language for op - eds and testimony to be presented as their own.
He's been arrested several times at climate protests targeting the Keystone XL
oil pipeline and
other fossil fuel
projects.
With
projects like rail terminals,
pipelines east and south, and
other infrastructure underway to move
oil sands, Keystone XL barrels would be far from marginal.
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.
Like
other pipeline projects, this one would create significant risk of
oil spills, create few jobs, and provide little
oil to Eastern Canada and do little to reduce our dependence on foreign
oil, because most of it will be sold to the highest bidder and sent overseas.
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 discourse is Keystone vs
other oil sources and
pipelines, Keystone's effects as an individual
project, and Keystone's contributions to emissions.
Notes that
projects like the proposed Keystone XL tar sands
pipeline send the wrong message to our communities and citizens who work hard to lessen our dependence on
oil, using innovative conservation, efficiency and
other measures.
Regulatory processes and environmental assessments for
pipelines, mines,
oil sands facilities, and
other resource development
projects
Since then, the Trans Mountain
project has pitted the NDP - led governments in Alberta and British Columbia against each
other after B.C. proposed new
oil spill regulations that would effectively block new
oil pipelines from reaching the West Coast.
Baker Botts has as long history assisting clients with the development of
pipeline projects, particularly those used to transport crude
oil,
other liquid hydrocarbons and natural gas.
The Trans Mountain
pipeline, a
project of U.S. company Kinder Morgan, would allow tar sands
oil producers to ship their product to China and
other Asian countries.
Mr. Bennett assists clients with development and structuring of upstream and midstream investments and joint ventures, including in respect of
project development agreements, joint development agreements, participation agreements, farmouts, production sharing arrangement and acquisitions of interests in
oil and gas and midstream properties and LNG,
pipeline and
other energy
projects.