I haven’t seen Thackney post in a while. The pipeline is proposed to go to Kitimat. It is like the only fjord that ships can get it and take it to Asia. The greenies don’t care that even if there was a rupture in the Keystone pipeline that because the oil is so viscous, it won’t flow anywhere.
I know the Canadians approved the expansion of the current pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver. I believe that it is going to at least double the capacity.
The problem with the Vancouver pipeline is that it does not terminate at a port facility that is deep enough to load a supertanker. Therefore, they have to transload the oil onto a smaller tanker and then take it out to where the transpacific supertanker sits at anchor.
The Kitimat port will be able to load directly onto the supertankers. When these two are both up and running it will lower the cost of crude on the west coast. It is good for the consumer, bad for the people selling Alaskan crude.