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To: Smokin' Joe
"The Enbridge/Enterprise pipeline will follow an existing route, bypassing the Nebraska aquifer recharge area."

Well, I can't see how a pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast goes anywhere near Nebraska, existing pipeline or not. Without the "missing link" from the Canadian border to Cushing, I don't see how the Cushing-Houston tie does anything.

14 posted on 03/27/2012 12:02:22 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog
Without the "missing link" from the Canadian border to Cushing, I don't see how the Cushing-Houston tie does anything.

They are in effect breaking it up into several different projects. Once complete, you'll have a continuous pipeline all the way. If they do it that way, they get it built. Some of the other pieces are already being built or about to be built.

16 posted on 03/27/2012 12:09:22 PM PDT by marron
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To: Wonder Warthog
Existing Enbridge Pipelines While that is just a list, there already are pipelines which bring Tar Sands crude to the US. Bakken oil (ND, MT) gets delivered in those, too, but the problem is one of capacity, and has been since we began Bakken oil projects in 2000 over in Montana's Elm Coulee Field.

With North Dakota's substantial contribution (now ranked third in monthly production), the pipelines just can't carry enough oil, so there are unit trains and even haul trucks moving crude oil.

The 'discount' spoken of means oil production companies are getting paid as much as $30 less than spot for the oil (usually at par with WTI) at the wellhead because of transportation costs/issues.

Expanding the pipeline capacity by running additional lines alongside the existing ones does two things: Increases capacity, and dodges the EPA bullet by utilizing routes which have already been approved. Those lines will be north of Cushing, OK.

17 posted on 03/27/2012 1:19:57 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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