Interesting article in the financial post today about Irving Oil getting permission from the government to source Canadian oil...from the TM export terminal in Vancouver.
https://business.financialpost.com/c...#comments-area
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Irving’s new solution to access the oil will purportedly see Western Canadian oil travel 6,300 nautical miles, or 11,771 kilometres, according to Sea-distances.org, more than twice the length of the abandoned 4,600-kilometre Energy East pipeline.
Irving Oil is also looking to source Canadian oil delivered through ports in Texas and Louisiana.
“Further, Canadian oil is also available from Canadian crude producers at Gulf Coast terminals in the United States,” Scott wrote in the application. “To maintain flexibility with crude suppliers, Irving Oil needs to have the option to acquire Canadian oil both in British Columbia and the Gulf Coast.”
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In a clear win for the environment and global emissions, oil that could have been supplied to the East through a low emission direct pipeline is now traveling 1000km in the opposite direction to Vancouver before embarking on the 12,000km ocean journey to St. John. Just a brilliant move by the eco fanatics to make that happen. The good news is if Keystone is ever finished eastern Canada can source oil from the US gulf coast which would only be a 4200km unnecessary ocean trip. Simply brilliant