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Oil by rail
Wed, 2015-08-19 02:47
#1
Oil by rail
Wed, 2015-08-19 02:48
#2
Activists have done a wonderful job stopping pipelines but oil by rail may be more difficult to prevent.
I didn't think it would be profitable to develop facilities based on oil being shipped by rail especially long distances. Apparenly I was wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/17/gilles-duceppe-quebec-should-dec...
After weeks of criticizing TransCanada's Energy East plan to build a pipeline through Quebec to New Brunswick, Duceppe blasted the proposal to build a rail terminal in Belledune, N.B.
The terminal would accept oil shipments by rail from Alberta, via Quebec, destined for markets overseas.
This is to ship bitumen overseas.
Wed, 2015-08-19 09:39
#3
Thanks for this thread
I maintain a small apricot orchard near CN tracks in the BC Interior, and can watch the black open containers filled with bitumen travelling by...yes, a campaign to challenge this system is essential....My home base higher in the mountains nears the tracks bringing bitumin down from the tar sands, a rail line exposed to continuous unstable rock slides
The people in the town of course remain totally blissfully ignorant and complacent...scary
Wed, 2015-08-19 09:50
#4
I didn't think it would be profitable to develop facilities based on oil being shipped by rail especially long distances. Apparenly I was wrong.
Yeah, this train has long left the station.
The refineries are (mostly) already there. The "pipeline" certainly is (railway tracks). Nothing to do but load up the train. It's cheap - except for a few lost lives along the way.
Here (old stories):
[url=http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=4b02fa05-4d... idea a winner for oil sands[/url]
[url=http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/08/lac_megantic_oil_shipments... shipments by rail have increased 28,000 per cent since 2009[/url]
[url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324096404578354322964805106]U.S. Refiners Turn to Rail to Tap Canadian Oil[/url]
[url=http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/is-rail-a-viable-alternati... touted as alternative to oil pipelines[/url] [This one purports to show cost comparisons for rail vs. pipeline shipment of bitumen]