Stymied in the Lower 48, Alberta floats idea of moving tar-sands oil through Alaska

[Panich52]

Alaska Dispatch
Stymied in the Lower 48, Alberta floats idea of moving tar-sands oil through Alaska
Energy | Alex DeMarban
  
Officials in the Canadian province of Alberta say they hope to talk to Alaska leaders about shipping tar-sands crude oil through the state as the Keystone XL pipeline route through the Lower 48 remains bogged down in politics.

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http://www.adn.com/article/20150209/stymied-lower-48-alberta-floats-idea-moving-tar-sands-oil-through-alaska
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[GeorgeGist]

1. Do they know that Alaska is part of the US?

[Brother Buzz]

2. Theoretically the pipeline would traverse mostly Federal land and might be an easier pitch...

with a GOP congress.

[MiniMe]

3. Why do they want to route it through the US at all

Be it Alaska or the Keystone XL. Route it through your own country.

[KamaAina]

4. The First Nations peoples in B.C. are giving them fits

[Panich52]

5. They are Enbridge East pipeline. But that one port isn.t enough f/ all they want to export.

And export is why they want all the pipelines. Eastern line, KXL, etc are not about Canada's own energy supplies, they're about filling oil execs' wallets. Same goes f/ North Dakota's support of KXL -- US energy independence isn.t their concern. That's why rewriting export laws was an amendment to recent bills.

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