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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Umm, one of the primary purposes of Energy East is to move our raw crude to the refineries in New Brunswick. The reliance on foreign oil in this case is because we can't move enough raw product fast enough to meet the demands of the refinery's business.
I would suspect our own oil would be much cheaper to transport, for one.
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Plus the use of those tankers has to be pretty significant in terms of GHG numbers, as well as safety risks in really delicate eco systems.
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