Energy East Pipeline, Hardisty, Alberta
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Location Hardisty to Saint John, Canada
Length of the pipeline4,500km
Start of Construction 2016
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Energy East Pipeline (EEP) is a new 4,500km long crude oil pipeline being planned by TransCanada Pipelines. The new pipeline will run from Hardisty to Saint John in Canada. The pipeline construction cost is expected to reach around $12bn.
Regulatory approval for the pipeline from the National Energy Board (NEB) will be obtained upon completion of the environmental assessment studies. Construction is expected to start in 2016 and be completed by 2018.
The new pipeline will expand the oil transportation network of Canada and reduce the demand for foreign oil imports in Canada. It is expected to serve Montreal and Quebec City by 2017 and St. John by 2018.
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Canada’s energy security is top of the news this week with the threatened closure of Line 5, a cross-border Canadian oil pipeline that has been operating since the 1950s. It supplies nearly half of the Ontario and Quebec market for light crude oil, light synthetic crude oil and natural gas.
Michigan’s state governor is trying to shut down Enbridge’s existing pipeline, and an associated $500-million tunnel project upgrade, to fight global warming and protect the environment. If she succeeds, the closure would lead to huge job losses and economic disruptions on both sides of the border.
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Quebec and Ontario could have energy stability if we had an all-Canadian pipeline. but because the federal Liberal government that Ontarians and Quebecers keep electing and re-electing has sought to grind Canada’s oil industry into dust, Ontario and Quebec now face gasoline and home heating shortages if Whitmer, the head of a foreign government, ever gets her way.
If a pipeline is important to Alberta (Keystone XL), the Trudeau-ites barely lift a finger.
If a pipeline is unpopular in Quebec (Energy East), the Liberals are only too happy to stick the shiv in.
If one is unpopular in B.C., they’ll kill it (Northern Gateway) or drag their feet (Trans Mountain).
Ted Morton: Canada may win the Line 5 battle, but we re still losing the war Even if unsuccessful, Gov. Whitmer s attempt to shut down Line 5 will have strengthened the campaign to block oil pipelines from Canada
Author of the article: Ted Morton, Special to National Post
Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 5 minute read • Anti-pipeline activists protest against Enbridge in a file photo from Aug. 25, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Even if Canada wins the battle to keep the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline open, it is losing the war against the anti-Canadian oil movement, writes Ted Morton. Photo by MOLLY RILEY/AFP via Getty Images