VANCOUVER — Canadians» support for the B.C. government's stance of doing everything it can to prevent the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion from being built has slid significantly since February, according to a new Angus Reid poll released Wednesday.
Not exact matches
Kinder Morgan Canada's Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion would triple the amount of crude flowing
from Alberta to a port facility in Burnaby, B.C.
On April 12, U.S.
pipeline giant Kinder Morgan Energy Partners gave the green light to a $ 5 - billion
expansion of its existing Trans - Mountain
pipeline from Edmonton to the Pacific coast near Vancouver.
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 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.
Kinder Morgan Canada welcomes investment
from the country's aboriginals so that they have a stake in its Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion, its head said on Wednesday, as the company braces for major obstacles for the project.
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.
The British Columbia government's main concern is a lack of information about how diluted bitumen
from the
pipeline expansion actually behaves if it spills in a marine environment and how, or if, it can be cleaned up.
Alberta's proposed legislation and B.C.'s response are the latest manoeuvres in the escalating dispute over the $ 7.4 billion Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion that runs
from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C..
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.
The export market will also still be constrained even with Enbridge's expected 450,000 barrels a day of
expansion, but the IEA raised doubts that the capacity additions
from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain and TransCanada's Keystone XL
pipeline projects will actually get built.
Houston - based Enterprise Products Partners announced two
pipeline expansions Thursday that will transport natural gas liquids
from Colorado to a storage facility in Texas.
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.
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.
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.
At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons
from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.
Those states could supply about a third of all U.S. natural gas once the
pipeline expansion is complete, up
from about 25 percent now, according to projections
from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
At home, we've seen how a government can extract more
from a
pipeline proponent, after B.C. Premier Christy Clark struck a deal with Kinder Morgan Canada to collect as much as $ 1 - billion over 20 years if the company builds its Trans Mountain
expansion.
The
pipeline expansion has already been approved by the federal government, but faces opposition
from the public and the courts in BC.
Add to these all the hanging questions surrounding Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion (TMX)
from past weeks — will Alberta and the feds buy into the
pipeline?
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.
When faced with countless illegal blockades by protestors and legal challenges
from the British Columbia NDP coalition government, Kinder Morgan has suspended the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion spending on all non-essential activities and related spending related to the project.
The
expansion of the
pipeline, which would carry diluted bitumen
from Alberta to the B.C. coast for export to overseas markets, is supported by the federal government.
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?
Despite opposition
from environmental activists, and governments at the provincial and municipal level in British Columbia, the
pipeline expansion project should proceed for that reason.
Upholding the public interest is the responsibility of our political leaders, who should be smart enough to recognize that this
pipeline expansion was opposed
from the beginning.
A New York congresswoman has written to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about assessing potential dangers
from a proposed
pipeline expansion near Westchester County - based Indian Point.
Saying the proposed
pipelines are all one system, just like the nations rivers or even our arteries, activists
from across the northeast gathered on the east steps of New York's State Capitol to protest the
expansion of natural gas
pipelines.
Some Westchester legislators say they are troubled by the potential environmental impact on county parkland
from a proposed gas
pipeline expansion project.
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.
But if so, where is the «missing heat» (Trenberth) or «global warming still in the
pipeline» (Hansen)-- heat storage in the ocean, whose first effect would be an increasing SLR
from thermal
expansion?
The scientists — more than a quarter of whom are
from the United States — issued a declaration of «10 Reasons for a Moratorium» on tar sands
expansion and related projects such as the proposed Keystone XL tar sands
pipeline.
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.
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.
Once the Keystone
pipeline expansion is complete, Valero expects to be one of the largest recipients of heavy sour crude oil
from this
expansion.
Climate change and a projected seven-fold increase in tanker traffic
from the Kinder Morgan
pipeline expansion make immediate action more urgent than ever.
Today at Earth Island Journal (cross-posted at Grist), four activists representing groups
from across the US and Canada, argue that the climate movement needs to move beyond its preoccupation with oil
pipeline projects, such as Keystone XL, and instead challenge the
expansion of fossil fuel projects wherever they appear.
Environmental advocates have long called for an outright rejection of the proposed
pipeline expansion, citing past
pipeline spills and the high levels of pollution that result
from tar sands extraction.
It will, however, slow the
expansion of the extraction of tar sands, though the Koch brothers et al. are busy trying to find other
pipeline routes and rail lines that would get the dirtiest of dirty energy out of Canada and into the U.S. via destinations
from Michigan to Maine.
The continuing dispute between British Columbia and Texas
pipeline company Kinder Morgan over the proposed $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain
Pipeline ULC
expansion,
from Alberta to British Columbia, is heading to the courts, with one senator urging Ottawa to ask the SCC to decide on the issue.
They say the $ 8 billion
pipeline expansion encourages ramped up production
from the tarsands, and that will increase greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Canada should be reducing them.
Representing an Asian contractor in a US$ 1.4 billion ICC arbitration concerning a dispute with a state petroleum company arising
from the refurbishment and
expansion of an oil refinery and
pipelines.
Raising funds to cover legal defence costs stemming
from civil disobedience in opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion.
22 March 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver)-- While the protest is still ongoing, four people have now been arrested defending water
from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion project today.
The $ 7.9 - billion
pipeline expansion would triple the amount of Alberta crude going
from Edmonton to the port in Burnaby.
The continuing dispute between British Columbia and Texas
pipeline company Kinder Morgan over the proposed $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain
Pipeline ULC
expansion,
from Alberta to B.C., is heading to the courts, with one senator urging Ottawa to ask the SCC to decide on the issue.
The Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion would triple the flow of oil products
from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
They said the demonstrations would be a reminder of the British Columbia waterways threatened by the
pipeline expansion, which would increase the number of oil - carrying vessels in the Georgia Strait
from eight per month to as many as 37.