Pipeline will be built East instead of West

[VanessaofBC]

Source: http://www.canadians.org/node/9691
June 26, 2013 - 2:31pm

TransCanada is proposing the Energy East pipeline. It would be a 4,400 kilometre pipeline stretching from Alberta to New Brunswick. It would carry 500,000 to 850,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company would convert 3,000 kilometres of an existing natural gas pipeline to Quebec and build an additional 1,400 kilometres of pipeline from there to New Brunswick. The pipeline to Quebec could be converted by 2017, the pipeline to New Brunswick completed and operational by 2018. It is expected that TransCanada will seek approval from the National Energy Board for the pipeline this fall.

SOURCE: http://www.canadians.org/node/9623
June 6, 2013 - 4:24pm

The Toronto Star reports, "Prime Minister Stephen Harper is backing a plan to send oil to Canada’s eastern provinces from Alberta as the Obama administration decides whether to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Harper met Canadian oil-industry executives in Calgary April 11 to build support for a plan by TransCanada Corp. to ship crude to Saint John, New Brunswick, about 640 kilometres northeast of Boston. Executives from TransCanada and Saint John-based Irving Oil Corp. attended the meeting, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the discussions weren’t public."

The article notes, "Canada 'strongly supports constructing energy infrastructure that will help transport Western Canadian oil to the east', Harper wrote in an April 29 letter obtained by Bloomberg News. He was replying to Conservative lawmakers from New Brunswick who had asked for a fast regulatory review of the proposed project. ...In their March 22 letter to Harper, 14 Conservative lawmakers called on the government to conduct a single regulatory review for Energy East. 'The last thing this project needs is unnecessary red tape or approval processes.'"

In the omnibus C-38 'budget bill' legislation, the Harper government gave itself the power to give the go-ahead to pipelines and other major energy projects regardless of the conclusions of recommendations coming from regulatory hearings.

TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline is a 4,400 kilometre artery that could carry 500,000 to 850,000 barrels per day from Alberta to Saint John, New Brunswick as soon as 2017. Those backing this pipeline have highlighted the export potential of the pipeline given the deep water port in Saint John. Gordon Laxer has stated, "Instead of supplying domestic conventional oil to eastern Canadians as part of a national eco-energy plan to transition Canada off fossil fuels, this is just another tar sands-exporting ploy. If it succeeds, it will sink Alberta and Canada even deeper into a ‘hewers of wood’ trap — which is also a carbon trap."

So go east instead west? Seems to solve all our problems!!

 

[VanessaofBC]

Yup.

All the whiny ones any ways.

But wondering ... how will Southern BC pay for themselves without Northern BC footing the bill?

Just curious.

There is still LOTS of trees to cut down up there! Yee haw Forestry!

 

[rickoshadows]

This plan has been in the works for a while, in addition to the Enbridge line as well as the doubling of the the Kinder Morgan line. There is opposition to the eastern line as well. (A cynical person would believe that the opposition to the Transcanada line was started by energy companies who rely on imported oil from the Middle East and don't want new competition.) The Enbridge line will happen eventually, and until they do, we will continue to give the US a 30% discount on oil prices because the only place we can send it is through them.

 

[VanessaofBC]

This plan has been in the works for a while, in addition to the Enbridge line as well as the doubling of the the Kinder Morgan line. There is opposition to the eastern line as well. (A cynical person would believe that the opposition to the Transcanada line was started by energy companies who rely on imported oil from the Middle East and don't want new competition.) The Enbridge line will happen eventually, and until they do, we will continue to give the US a 30% discount on oil prices because the only place we can send it is through them.

I have heard different. I have heard it will be built East and with new opposition put in by Harper to stop the Enbridge line.

I hear what is holding them back is Quebec. They do not want any outside union larbouers brought in, they want to use their own people. If Quebec is strong to protest i heard that they will just take it through the states to the Terminal in St. John.

Either way this will be a very interesting finale!

 

[adon100]

Interesting thread for this forum. I presume many pooners get their $$ from oil & gas industry!!

 

[rick hunter]

I don't know how this will solve our problem, as they want to ship the oil and lng out to Asia. People don't want pipelines but they don't wan't railcars either. However pipelines are a lot safer than railcars and as the accident at Lac Magentic shows can have deadly consequences.