From Jansen, Sask.: The oil industry suggests they will move their product by train if their pipelines don’t get approved. They should really be made to use safe rail cars.
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Adrian Dix On Trans Mountain (Kinder Morgan) Pipeline
Announcing his environmental platform, Dix said he does “not expect Vancouver to become a major export oil port” as he said appears to be contemplated in the Kinder Morgan proposal.Dix would not definitively rule out the project, saying the company has yet to submit a formal proposal.But he said he
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Justin Trudeau Comes Out In In Favor Of Trans Mountain Pipeline
Justin Trudeau today told the Toronto Star’s editorial board he’s pro-Keystone and a West Coast pipeline is “a priority”. #cdnpoli— Kai Nagata (@kainagata) April 5, 2013 At least I think that is what this means, as Justin has given a pretty clear “no” to Northern Gateway. Trans Mountain has been
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CIBC: Keystone XL Not Enough
“…it’s increasingly important that Canada move on one or more of the alternative pipelines to get our product headed Asia’s way. Canada’s own central and eastern oil markets are another option, but longer term demand growth there is also likely to be lackluster.”Its worth noting TransCanada Corps. stock price after
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Alberta oil selling at 50% discount to world price…
…which explains why the Canadian government is Hell-and-High-Water-bent on building a pipeline, any pipeline, anywhere. First, the stats Over the past few months, new stories have noted that Canada’s oil sector isn’t getting full price for its heavy oil — in large part because American pipelines are well-supplied with newly-flowing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Omnibus Bills, Pipelines, First Nations
Chief Justin George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation connects a few of the dots leading from omnibus budget bills C38 and C45 to Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Most interesting bit from the news release: [Trans Mountain] is a brand new pipeline following a new route; the existing pipeline was built without First
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Trans Mountain Vs. Northern Gateway
Generally speaking, the expansion of Kinder-Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline has been regarded as an easier sell than Northern Gateway. But this is because there has been an assumption that the “twinning” of lines will take place within the current right-of-way. That is to say, Kinder-Morgan has rights to all the property
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