The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, March 18, edition that the backers of a bitumen refinery
project in British
Columbia believe their
made-in-B.C. recipe for getting oil
out of landlocked Alberta will
win over skeptics.
The Globe's Brent Jang writes that energy projects
such as Enbridge's
Northern Gateway pipeline
remain stalled amid widespread
opposition in B.C. Officials at
Pacific Future Energy, however, say their
solution is to build a refinery to
address fears about tankers spilling
oil into the Pacific Ocean.
While the Northern Gateway
proposal calls for loading unrefined
heavy oil into tankers for
export from Kitimat, Pacific
Future Energy is seeking to build
an $11.4-billion (U.S.) refinery
near Prince Rupert that would
turn Alberta bitumen into products
such as gasoline and diesel. Pacific Future Energy
senior adviser
Stockwell Day argues that
Enbridge is not able to win a social
licence for Northern Gateway
because the pipeline proposal is
tainted by the risk of oil spills
from Asia-bound tankers.
Pacific Future Energy is casting
Enbridge as an Alberta-centric
company that has underestimated
British Columbians' opposition
to oil tankers.
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