Vanderhoof Omineca Express

2008 11 26

Yes, a pipeline in our backyards

By Elaine Storey

In today’s market, the cost for Enbridge Inc. to snake an oil pipeline from Bruderheim, Alberta, through the center of British Columbia to Kitimat will range in the $4 billion price range. There will be more pubic hearings and consultations before the plan is ready for the regulatory application process in the summer of 2009. Upon regulatory confirmation, construction could begin as early as 2010 or 2011 and completed as early as 2014….([1] Full Story)
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Comment by folc.ca: The proposed pipeline will transport 525,000 barrels of petroleum a day from (west of) Bruderheim, Alberta (in Strathcona County’s Industrial Heartland), to Kitimat and 193,000 barrels of condensate a day from Kitimat back to Bruderheim.

The open-house posters by Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are accessible [2] here.

The open-house presentation by Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline mentions not a word of where the petroleum will be shipped to. Would it be wrong to speculate that the destination is China?

Nevertheless, what will be shipped out won’t be processed and refined in Canada.  Is that a good economic policy?  More of the hewers of wood and drawers of water philosophy.