I have no problem with them shipping crude on the salt-water oceans, but the fresh-water Great Lakes is another issue. Still prefer pipelines.
Interesting news. The biggest constraint is the lock systems throughout the Great Lakes. Under the political pressure from the North American railroad industry, they were never built to accommodate ships that are commonly used in international shipping today. Crude oil from the center of North America must be trading at a huge discount in order to make up for these major inefficiencies in transportation costs.
Real plan or just a case of grabbing a hostage and shouting “Give us the pipeline or the lake gets it”?
It would explain why Karl Lenin and Debbie Stupid cow have suddenly become interested in the pipeline under the straits.
Sounds OK to me until...
the winds of November come early.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
BP’s Whiting refinery is just finishing their modernization project, originally called Operation Canadian Crude. For the past few years, it was the largest construction project going in the US. Whiting refinery is in northern Indiana, ON the shores at the southern end of Lake Michigan. It is the fourth largest refinery in the US.
The links do not work for me.
Duluth-Superior is already one of the nation’s biggest ports and the area population is 300,000. Not really the sleepy small town indicated.
Alberta oil sands oil via the Great Lakes
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Good luck keeping Lake St. Clair dredged deep enough for the tankers, not to mention the Soo Locks bottleneck.