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The CBC Reports:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet colleagues signed off on two major pipelines today, projects that will pump nearly a million more barrels of oil a day from Alberta's oilsands to global markets, if they are constructed.
Ottawa gave the green light to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and Enbridge's Line 3, while it rejected Northern Gateway.
Trudeau also announced that the government would ban crude oil tankers along B.C.'s North Coast, promising legislation in the new year to implement a moratorium.
[...] The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency estimates that the new capacity will result in roughly 13.5 to 17 megatonnes of additional upstream greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Kinder-Morgan's Trans Mountain project is an expansion of an existing pipeline that runs between Edmonton, Alberta, and Burnaby (part of Greater Vancouver), British Columbia. The expansion will nearly triple the amount of product that can be shipped to just under 900,000 barrels/day.
Line 3 is a 1,660km pipeline that runs between Hardisty, Alberta and Superior, Wisconsin. The proposal by Enbridge is to replace the 34" pipeline with a 36" pipeline. Enbridge expects 760,000 barrels/day of light, medium and heavy crude to flow through the upgraded pipeline
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @02:41AM
Where I am from, Quebec, Alberta seems like a bunch of over-entitled cry-babies, that don't want to pay taxes, and then at the smallest trouble (like burning forests, flooding, whatever else happens and their corrupt oil-bribed politicians cannot handle) come crying to the federal government and the rest of Canada to help them.
So while we don't want your crappy pipelines here, we wish you success is selling your oil to US, China or whoever, and hope you enjoy the tailing ponds and beautiful strip-mining scenery when you're done selling it all. Because your post-oil future looks very similar to Baku and other "successful" oil dependent regions.
And speaking of irony, looks like Trudeau did more for your the only industry in your province than your beloved Harper.
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