Canada delivering Keystone XL pipes.

[Fuddnik]

We're getting sold a bill of goods again. This is a done deal. Pics of lots of pipe.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/08/pol-keystone-pipeline-sections.html

Canada delivering Keystone XL pipes to U.S.
CBC News
Posted: Nov 8, 2011 5:45 PM ET
Last Updated: Nov 8, 2011 5:36 PM ET
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As the U.S. State Department proceeds with a special review of the Obama administration's handling of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal, pipes for the project are already being delivered south of the border.

Truckloads of pipe from Canada are arriving daily in Gascoyne, N.D., where they are being stockpiled, Radio-Canada reporter Marc Godbout reported Monday.

A Radio-Canada video shows trucks carrying pipeline sections . Gascoyne is just across the state line from Baker, Mon., one of six states through which the 2,736-kilometre pipeline would run.

Radio-Canada attempted to speak with the Canadian supplier of the pipeline sections and with TransCanada. Both firms declined the request for on-camera interviews.

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[catabryna]

1. Indeed.

Source: The Oregonian, November 8, 2011

Borg Hendrickson and her husband, Lin Laughy, had never heard of Canada's oil sands last year when they discovered Imperial Oil planned to haul three-story-high truckloads past their rural Idaho home.

Each shipment, they learned, would stretch nearly two-thirds the length of a football field. Each would be 24 feet wide, spanning U.S. 12 as the two-lane highway winds through wilderness along pristine rivers.

More than 200 loads, shipped from South Korea to Vancouver, Wash., and barged to Lewiston, Idaho, would become building blocks for an $8 billion factory in the oil sands. In the northern Alberta complex, called tar sands by critics, gooey black deposits are strip-mined to make petroleum mainly consumed in the United States.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/11/opponents_force_imperial_oil_t.html

eta: Why are they shipping these things through the United States? Does not Canada have a port and highways?

[Fuddnik]

2. Because the final destination is the US.

They're unloading in Montana and North Dakota, so far.

[catabryna]

4. The article I am referring to is discussing the transport of

the nomenclature for the complex in Canada.

The main reason why they want this pipeline to go through the US is because they can't obtain a good path through western Canada.

So, yes, they definitely know that pipeline will be approved or they wouldn't be building up the area for production.

[Fuddnik]

5. Good question.

I'm not that familiar with the transportation or highway system in Western Canada.

[NightWatcher]

3. grab some pics or specs if you can, so the monkeywrenchers can get planning

not one drop flows from sands to oily sea