PIPELINES, PIPELINES, pipelines, pipelines WE NEED PIPELINES. Yeah, we need pipelines- where and to what purpose??? They will not serve to increase marketing prospects, they will do absolutely increase the percentage of Canadian crude we refine in this country versus the amounts of petroleum and petroleum products we import. They will do absolutely nothing to diversify the Canadian economy.
It is a long established fact;; Canada and especially "Americanised" Albertans Would Rather Give OiL (actually any and all of our resources) Away; FOR FREE; Than Refine It; HERE IN CANADA.
Canadian politicians would rather see Albertans and other working Canadians lose thousands of jobs rather than go against their Capitalistic Fascist/slave master OWNERS.
Canada has always been known as a “hewer of wood and drawer of water” for its reliance on natural resources for economic growth, and nowhere is this more apparent than the way the country handles its extraction of oil.
Despite boasting one of the highest proven oil reserves in the world -- second only to Saudi Arabia at 175 billion barrels-- A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN CRUDE IS SHIPPED ACROSS THE BORDER FOR REFINING IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS HAS LED TO CHARGES THAT CANADA IS SELLING OUT ITS VAST OIL RESOURCES TO THE U.S. AND FAILING TO UPHOLD THE NATIONAL INTEREST IN ENSURING THAT REFINERIES ARE BUILT IN CANADA, WITH THE BENEFITS ACCRUING TO CANADIANS.
In recent years, these voices have been amplified by the Canadian government's strategy to build new pipelines and expand existing ones – namely the KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE EXPANSION THAT WOULD SHIP MORE ALBERTA OIL SANDS CRUDE TO U.S. GULF COAST REFINERIES, AND ENBRIDGE'S NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE THAT WOULD MOVE ALBERTA OIL TO COASTAL B.C. FOR SHIPMENT TO ASIA.
THE COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPER WORKER’S UNION ESTIMATES THAT 18,000 CANADIAN JOBS ARE LOST FOR EVERY 400,000 BARRELS OF BITUMEN THAT ARE EXPORTED.
http://algirvancanadian.blogspot.ca/2017/01/canadian-pipelines-and-petroleum.html
Canada has always been known as a “hewer of wood and drawer of water” for its reliance on natural resources for economic growth, and nowhere is this more apparent than the way the country handles its extraction of oil.
FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016 04:03 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016 08:11 PM EST:
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau approved two major oil pipeline expansions Tuesday, including the deeply controversial Trans Mountain line through suburban Vancouver, while maintaining his government remains on course to meet its international climate commitments. The announcement ends the new Liberal government’s year-long high wire act seeking to balance environmental stewardship and expansion of Canada’s resource economy.
“We are under no illusions that the decision we made today will be bitterly disputed by a number of people across the country who would rather we had made another decision,” Trudeau — flanked by a number of his senior cabinet ministers — told a news conference in Ottawa.
“We took this decision today because we believe it is in the best interests of Canada and Canadians.”
THE LIBERALS HAVE BEEN SETTING THE STAGE FOR PIPELINE APPROVALS FOR MONTHS, HIGHLIGHTING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MOVES LIKE A NATIONAL CARBON PRICE WHILE MAKING THE CASE THAT THE JOBS, ECONOMIC BOOST AND GOVERNMENT REVENUES FROM FOSSIL FUEL EXPORTS ARE CRITICAL TO THE TRANSFORMATION TO A LOW-CARBON FUTURE.
It’s Been a Tough Sell. O0f course.
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion has become a lightning rod for climate protests from coast to coast, with opponents from among Trudeau’s own caucus of Liberal MPs and his political ally, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Climate campaigners, even aboriginally indigenous groups immediately attacked the government decision as a betrayal, while B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak issued an anodyne statement noting the province’s own environmental assessment of Trans Mountain continues.
The fight overshadowed quieter deliberations about Enbridge’s proposed replacement of Line 3, A HALF-CENTURY-OLD PIPELINE FROM ALBERTA TO THE UNITED STATES THAT TRUDEAU APPROVED TUESDAY, EFFECTIVELY DOUBLING ITS CURRENT WORKING CAPACITY.
Between the Trans Mountain and Line 3 expansions, THE LIBERALS HAVE APPROVED THE EXPORT OF ALMOST A MILLION ADDITIONAL BARRELS OF OIL PER DAY — AND THE PRODUCTION OF BETWEEN 23 AND 28 MILLION TONNES OF ADDITIONAL GREENHOUSE GASES ANNUALLY. Line 3 can actually handle another 155 million barrels per day, but Enbridge would have to apply for a new permit.
The Liberals hoped to leaven those numbers with Tuesday’s decision to permanently shelve the stalled Northern Gateway pipeline across northwestern B.C. and IMPOSE A PROMISED OIL TANKER BAN ON THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC COAST; WATERS OVER WHICH, because they belong to the United States of North America, CANADA HAS, ABSOLUTELY, NO SAY.
PIPELINE EXPANSION THAT WILL SHIP MORE ALBERTA OIL SANDS CRUDE TO U.S. GULF COAST REFINERIES.
ENBRIDGE'S NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE WOULD MOVE ALBERTA OIL TO COASTAL B.C.--- FOR SHIPMENT TO ASIA.
ENBRIDGE'S NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE WOULD MOVE ALBERTA OIL TO COASTAL B.C.--- FOR SHIPMENT TO ASIA.
THE COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPER WORKER’S UNION ESTIMATES THAT 18,000 CANADIAN JOBS ARE LOST FOR EVERY 400,000 BARRELS OF BITUMEN THAT ARE EXPORTED.
As they tend to do with all Canada's natural resources; Canada; rather Canada's Capitalist bought "SPONSORED" thus enslaved; government politicians Would Rather because they are told to; Give Oil Petroleum Away; FOR FREE; Than Refine It
Canada has always been known as a “hewer of wood and drawer of water” for its reliance on natural resources for economic growth, and nowhere is this more apparent than the way the country handles its extraction of oil.
Despite boasting one of the highest proven oil reserves in the world -- second only to Saudi Arabia at 175 billion barrels-- A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CANADIAN CRUDE IS SHIPPED ACROSS THE BORDER FOR REFINING IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS HAS LED TO CHARGES THAT CANADA IS SELLING OUT ITS VAST OIL RESOURCES TO THE U.S. AND FAILING TO UPHOLD THE NATIONAL INTEREST IN ENSURING THAT REFINERIES ARE BUILT IN CANADA, WITH THE BENEFITS ACCRUING TO CANADIANS.
In recent years, these voices have been amplified by the Canadian government's strategy to build new pipelines and expand existing ones – namely the KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE EXPANSION THAT WOULD SHIP MORE ALBERTA OIL SANDS CRUDE TO U.S. GULF COAST REFINERIES, AND ENBRIDGE'S NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE THAT WOULD MOVE ALBERTA OIL TO COASTAL B.C. FOR SHIPMENT TO ASIA.
THE COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPER WORKER’S UNION ESTIMATES THAT 18,000 CANADIAN JOBS ARE LOST FOR EVERY 400,000 BARRELS OF BITUMEN THAT ARE EXPORTED.
The Opposition New Democratic Party has called for a “NATIONAL DISCUSSION” on how to develop new refining infrastructure they say would create jobs and bring in tax revenues but has not said how they would overcome the economic challenges that have so far prevented new refineries from being built.
Those challenges, it turns out, are daunting.
After years and more years of Conservative mismanagement and neglect; the cost of a new refinery is pegged at $10 billion, and would take years to construct. A new one hasn't been built in Canada since 1984, or in the United States since 1976, although new refineries are in the works in Michigan and Illinois. In Canada; with our worthless dollar, even the cost of URGENTLY NEEDED, FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL, UPGRADES ARE DAUNTING.
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BRITISH COLUMBIA NEWSPAPER MOGUL DAVID BLACK RAISED A FEW EYEBROWS WHEN HE PROPOSED TO BUILD A $25-BILLION REFINING COMPLEX IN KITIMAT, USING FEEDSTOCK MOVED THROUGH A PIPELINE BUILT WITH SUPPORTIVE NATIVE GROUPS -- MANY OF WHOM WITH VERY GOOD REASON, OPPOSE THE CURRENT ENBRIDGE PROPOSAL.
Suncor Energy's refining and marketing operations provide a vital link between our large Canadian resource base and the growing North American energy market. We process oil sands crude into the high-quality refined products that consumers demand.
Suncor operates refineries in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, Canada, AND IN COLORADO, USA.
EDMONTON, ALTA.: 142,000-BARREL-PER-DAY REFINERY RUNS ENTIRELY ON OIL SANDS-BASED FEEDSTOCKS AND PRODUCES A HIGH YIELD OF LIGHT OILS
MONTREAL, QUE.: 137,000-BARREL-PER-DAY REFINERY PRODUCES GASOLINE, DISTILLATES, ASPHALTS, HEAVY FUEL OIL, PETROCHEMICALS, SOLVENTS AND FEEDSTOCK FOR LUBRICANTS. A NEARBY SULPHUR PROCESSING PLANT ENSURES ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
COMMERCE CITY, COLO.: 98,000-BARREL-PER-DAY REFINERY PRODUCES GASOLINE, DIESEL FUEL AND PAVING-GRADE ASPHALT
SARNIA, ONT.: 85,000-BARREL-PER-DAY REFINERY PRODUCES GASOLINE, KEROSENE, JET AND DIESEL FUELS
We've completed major improvements to our refineries, greatly increasing the amount of oil sands crude that can be refined, while improving environmental performance.
The Edmonton refinery has been optimized for processing oil sands crude feedstocks.
At the Sarnia refinery, a $1 billion investment in new equipment has enabled the production of lower sulphur diesel fuel and improved operational efficiency.
At the Commerce City refinery, a $540 million (US $445 million) upgrade has enabled the refinery to meet clean fuels regulations and handle a wider range of oil sands products.
Canada only refines 25% of its own petroleum products or that are used in the Canadian marketplace.
CALGARY — The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Oct. 01, 2015:
The owners of the two Quebec refineries readying for shipments of Western Canadian crude say the National Energy Board’s decision to approve Enbridge Inc.’s Line 9 project will provide a long-awaited boost to their bottom lines.
“It’s a project that we’ve been waiting for,” said Julie Cusson, director of public and government affairs in Canada for Valero Energy Inc., WHICH IS LOOKING TO REPLACE PRICEY FEEDSTOCK IMPORTED FROM THE U.S. GULF COAST, AS WELL AS EUROPE AND AFRICA, WITH CHEAPER CANADIAN CRUDE.
“For us, it’s a big change because, with Line 9, half of our supply will now come from Western Canada,” Ms Cusson said of the Jean-Gaulin 265,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lévis, Que. “NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE CANADIAN PRODUCT.”
The Enbridge Line 9 plan would SEE THE FLOW OF THE PIPELINE REVERSED, FROM WESTWARD TO EASTWARD, TO BRING 300,000 BARRELS A DAY of U.S. Bakken oil and also some Western Canadian to Quebec. RUNNING BETWEEN SOUTHERN ONTARIO AND MONTREAL, LINE 9 WILL CARRY MAINLY LIGHT CRUDE OIL ONCE IN OPERATION. But, shippers will be PERMITTED to ship heavy crude such as diluted bitumen, sourced from the oil sands.
THE PROJECT WILL USE EXISTING PIPELINE, WITH NO NEW PIPE ADDED. STILL, IT WILL ADD BADLY NEEDED TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY FOR CANADIAN OIL PRODUCERS IN A PERIOD WHEN THE INDUSTRY IS STRUGGLING WITH BOTH LOW OIL PRICES AND THE INABILITY TO GET APPROVAL FOR PIPELINES THAT WOULD ALLOW ACCESS TO NEW MARKETS. Environmental groups have targeted pipeline approval processes to slow the growth of Canadian oil sands production – and in tandem, the growth of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
Suncor Energy Inc. spokeswoman Sneh Seetal called Line 9 “critical infrastructure” that will give the company’s 137,000 barrel-per-day Montreal refinery Access To North American Oil, INCLUDING THE OPTION OF TAKING HEAVY CRUDE FROM ITS OWN OIL SANDS OPERATIONS. THE 400-WORKER REFINERY PROCESSES PRIMARILY CONVENTIONAL CRUDE BUT CAN ALSO HANDLE LIGHT, SOUR AND HEAVIER GRADES OF OIL, AND MS. SEETAL SAID FEEDSTOCK SUPPLY DECISIONS WILL BE BASED ON AVAILABILITY AND PRICES. THE ENBRIDGE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE “SUPPLY OPTIONS FOR OUR MONTREAL REFINERY, WHICH IN TURN WILL ENHANCE THE LONG-TERM COMPETITIVENESS OF THAT REFINERY,” SHE SAID.
Enbridge had planned to start Line 9 operations last fall but was delayed by a number of new safety conditions imposed by the NEB. On Wednesday, the Line 9 project cleared the last pre-operational hurdle with the NEB, when the regulator approved hydrostatic tests – which involve filling the pipe with water at high pressure to ensure there aren’t any leaks – submitted by Enbridge.
However, it’s still unclear when the reversal project will begin operations. Enbridge spokesman Graham White said the pipeline company still has technical preparations to complete.
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