I've heard that Dilbit (Diluted Bitumen) is a nasty product to clean up (e.g. the Kalamazoo spill) and there isn't a lot of experience with it.
Why not build the refinery in Alberta? Then we can ship refined product west...not sure what impact it'll have on the eastern refineries.
I just don't get why Alberta is seemingly ok with letting other regions (BC, China, US, Eastern Canada) get the gains from upgrading our resources...
Probably because for any one company the cost of building a refinery >>>> than shipping it elsewhere to refine. So the Alberta government would need to tweak the economics of the project to make it worthwhile.
And, would the Northern Gateway pipeline have less opposition if it wasn't shipping Dilbit?
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