Alternatives In Energy Marketing: What Are Your Thoughts?
Doug MacLellan
President and CEO at Canada ProsperUnity Corporation (CPUC). | CanP3.com | APEGA Life Member
Alberta is landlocked and we require pipelines and railway tracks to market our production. Alberta can try to increase its return by creating an industry within Alberta for obtaining the added value here. What can we do to localize the manufacture of petrochemicals, plastics and refined products? But we are still landlocked and the capital required would be huge.
The positive for Alberta and Saskatchewan is that we are the center for world-class technical expertise. Innovation, tenacity and we-can-do-it attitudes are a part of the make-up. I posted an article on possibly pipeline and adding a new rail line to Churchill, but there still is the Prince Rupert option or an option to and thru Alaska or reversing the line to Norman wells and then heading to Tuktoyuktuk. All of these options have challenges. What other options do you see? How do we get out in front of this? Right now the Premier of Alberta, Rachel Notley needs the energy technical experts in Alberta to stand up and offer solutions. This is not a Conservative problem or an NDP problem or a Liberal problem; this is a prairie problem and an Alberta problem and a Saskatchewan problem and a Manitoba problem. We are on our own and we need solutions to solve our joint economic crisis. So if you care and read this commentary, offer a solution, be part of the answer. What we have learned in the past months is that the “green Activists” are not driven by factual and logical arguments. They do not really care about solutions as they are driven to shut down the hydrocarbon energy industry. Their conclusions are based on emotions and blind belief and their solutions are not supported by facts and science so let’s just move on and get to OUR solutions.
P.Tech.(Eng.) Civil Engineering Technologist
5 年Hi Doug. What about an alternative concept Energy East pipeline to Thunder Bay? I thought I’d ask since I see you have a lot of experience with the industry. Thunder Bay already has a deep fresh water port, major railway access, major highway access, larger workforce population, within reasonable distance to existing TransCanada Pipeline, on established shipping channels. A new pipeline could be twinned along the existing right of way, then branched off south to Thunder Bay. Pipeline would mostly not be subject to permafrost conditions unlike extreme northern routes, like Alaska pipeline faced. All provinces along route are still friendly/open to pipelines. Travel distance is shorter and in less hostile marine waters. Ships can travel through existing canal lock systems, ie Welland Canal, etc. Export options to refineries include Chicago to south, Detroit, Montreal, and Saint John and beyond to Europe+India. Quebec can’t stop shipping through St. Lawrence River/seaway as it has international shared access agreement between Canada+USA, plus they already ship oil imports on it. This could be Phase 1, pipeline could be extended east through Quebec upon future govt policy changes...ie a federal govt that enforces BNA 1867.
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