Alberta pitching oil pipeline to Alaska, premier says

SeekingAlpha ^ | 9 Feb 2015 | Carl Surran

[shove_it]

Alberta is in talks with Alaska about shipping oil sands crude through the state to the Pacific, as energy supporters struggle to convince opponents in Vancouver and Washington state of the merits of building new pipelines to ship crude out of the land-locked province.

An Alaska plan that would involve constructing a pipeline along the Mackenzie River valley and then west to existing ports on the U.S. coast is "technically feasible, [but] whether it’s economically feasible has yet to be determined," Alberta Premier Jim Prentice tells Bloomberg.

The route for a potential Alaska pipeline would cross through Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, where both governments are supportive, Prentice says.Enbridge's (NYSE:ENB) planned Northern Gateway pipeline would terminate at B.C.'s Kitimat port, where groups oppose the project; Kitimat is ~1,000 miles southeast of the Alaskan port of Valdez...

[OrangeHoof]

Astounding that B.C. and Washington don’t want Big Oil’s money and jobs. Not really astounding but, still...

[crusty old prospector]

The Chinese and Japanese will gladly take it.

[tophat9000]

Western Canada should team up with Alaska and Texas and form their own own country and tell everybody else to go F off.... or really you should take all the big cities in all of the North America and let them be autonomous Islands like Indian reservations and let the rest of the country get on with their lives