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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 10:19 AM Mar 2014

Oil Sands Pipeline Coming to North Dakota

From Ring of Fire:

The largest crude oil pipeline project in the state of North Dakota is getting closer to becoming a reality. Enbridge Energy’s Sandpiper Pipeline Project, also called the Northern Gateway project, would carry oil sands bitumen from Alberta, Canada’s Bakken Shale to the British Columbia coast. Enbridge recently announced plans to make the pipeline operational by 2016.

Residents, environmental groups, and several British Columbia First Nations are attempting to protest the project, which could potentially transport 300,000 barrels of Bakken crude per day across 610 miles of North Dakota. The pipeline will transport bitumen through the state to Minnesota and Wisconsin, where it will be shipped to Asia, according to Greenpeace Canada.

You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.

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Oil Sands Pipeline Coming to North Dakota (Original Post) GoLeft TV Mar 2014 OP
............ snappyturtle Mar 2014 #1
Whoever wrote this doesn't have a clue about these pipelines OnlinePoker Mar 2014 #2
UR right, 2 pipelines were confused- may be? FogerRox Mar 2014 #3

OnlinePoker

(5,702 posts)
2. Whoever wrote this doesn't have a clue about these pipelines
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:01 AM
Mar 2014

Northern Gateway will go west from mid-Alberta to Kitimat on the BC coast. Sandpiper will go from North Dakota east to Minnesota and from there to U.S. refineries and eastern Canada. They have nothing to do with each other except the same shitty company is wanting to build both of them.

http://www.enbridge.com/SandpiperProject.aspx

FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
3. UR right, 2 pipelines were confused- may be?
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:51 PM
Mar 2014

Plus I seem to remember the Northern Gateway proposal as a 500+bpd pipeline.

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