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Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater
Refine it in Canada?
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There are quite a few issues with this idea.
Money - Refineries are incredibly expensive and there are unused ones in the US so it is cheaper to re-purpose them than build new ones.
Labour - There simply isn't the manpower in Alberta to build and run enough refineries to handle all the product
Transportation - Right now we want to build one pipeline to ship one product to the refineries. Those refineries turn it into hundreds of different products and ship them around. Most of the products aren't used only in Alberta so they would have to be shipped to their markets. Now instead of one pipeline we would need 400 different systems to transport all the refined products.