Tarsands Infrastructure: South/East [US] is a category that represents the many connecting and supplying pipelines and associated projects that are needed to transport fuels for the production of tar sands bitumen and to move tar sand heavy bitumen to the Lower 48 of the US for refining. This involves some massive new pipeline projects to Illinois, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and elsewhere including existing refineries in Ontario and Quebec.
Though the category is labelled "US", the proposed new projects also traverse untouched Canadian territory across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The names of some of the larger ones include The Alberta Clipper Project, The Spearhead Pipeline (expansion) and the Keystone Pipeline, along with other pipelines controlled by TransCanada and Enbridge, as well as Imperial Oil. Despite the massive size and scale of pipeline networks already existing through the continental United States, these pipelines and associated construction would be needed to achieve US and Canadian government goals of reaching 5 million barrels a day of tar sand oil being shipped out of the tar sands "ground zero" of Alberta.
Panel: Pipeline may help stop jam
Janell Cole, Forum Communications Co.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=170417§ion=News&forumc...
Published Saturday, June 30, 2007
BISMARCK – The North Dakota Industrial Commission is urging construction of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, saying it has the potential to alleviate an international pipeline bottleneck that hurts the sale of North Dakota crude oil.
As the first new refinery in the US for 30 years was announced recently, it is worthy to note the number of new ones that are planned for the future increase in tar sands production. They are needed, since the US sees the tarsands as "domestic" production.
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US refinery demand for Canadian crude to double by 2015: CAPP
BY JUDY MONCHUK, CP
CALGARY (CP) _ U.S. refinery demand for western Canadian crude oil is projected to almost double by 2015, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says in its annual outlook.
Eminent Domain Could Be Used For Oil Pipeline
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,58307
06/27/2007
The 220 mile Transcanada pipeline is going to affect 500 tracts of land in South Dakota. TransCanada officials say if they can't get signed agreements on all those pieces of land, they'll use eminent domain to build the crude oil pipeline. So what do landowners who would be impacted by the pipeline think of that?
Walsh County couple challenging pipeline
http://www.kxmc.com/News/138318.asp
Jun 26 2007 8:42AM
Associated Press
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) A Walsh County couple and the Dakota Resource Council are trying to stop part of a proposed two (b) billion-dollar crude oil pipeline from going through North Dakota.
John and Janie Capp of Lankin and the D-R-C have asked the state Public Service Commission for a hearing on whether the TransCanada Keystone pipeline is needed. They're citing a constitutional amendment approved by voters last fall.
06/26/2007
Pipeline: What Happens If There's A Spill?
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,58249
Tuesday night's public meetings about the TransCanada pipeline are expected to draw a large crowd, and a main concern is the possibility of fuel spills.
With more than 200 miles of pipeline that would run under the South Dakota prairie, a leak or a spill is a possibility, which could contaminate our water, air, and land.
While Keystone officials say TransCanada has never had a leak on a pipeline constructed after 1980, it will be prepared for such an event.
Keystone Pipeline Bad For Canada, Lawyer Says
Jun, 21 2007 - 2:30 PM
http://www.770chqr.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428436912&rem=68315&red=...
CALGARY/AM770CHQR - The lawyer representing Canada's largest energy workers union has told Calgary hearings on a massive pipeline project, it's a bad deal for Canada and Canadians.
The Keystone Pipeline would export half a million barrells per day of raw bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to the U.S.
Keystone Pipeline Hearings Begin Monday
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,58147
06/22/2007
Plans to build a 220 mile underground oil pipeline in eastern South Dakota have unearthed plenty of questions from landowners affected by the project. They'll have a chance to get some answers during a series of public meetings next week.
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
June 14, 2007 Thursday 5:26 PM GMT
SECTION: BUSINESS NEWS
Texas firm plans nation's first new oil refinery in over 30 years
By DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press Writer
ELK POINT S.D.
Thousands of acres of farmland in the southeastern tip of South Dakota could become
home to the nation's first new oil refinery since 1976.
Hyperion Resources Inc., a privately held Dallas-based energy company, is
considering Elk Point and several other Midwest sites for the $8 billion refinery,
IT'S TIME FOR ALBERTANS TO DRAW A LINE IN THE (TAR) SAND
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=6589
BILL MOORE-KILGANNON / pialberta.org
There once was a thin red line on a map. That may sound like the start of a fairy tale, but in fact it is the real beginning of a critical debate about Alberta’s energy future.
The regional papers should really talk to one another more, or perhaps this is deliberate obfuscation.
