Enbridge says that it will pitch the new Alberta-BC pipeline only under the right circumstances

Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has expressed confidence that one or more private sector pipeline operators have given Prince Rupert to Ollasands Crude, BC.

But if the pipeline companies are willing to propose a new West Coast Pipeline project in the near future, they are not publicly saying so.

Smith told reporters on Tuesday, “We are having active conversations with many pipeline companies, and I think we are close to either one or a consortium.”

Enbridge Inc. A huge border-limit is the largest shipper of crude oil with a network. It is also the company behind the Northern Gateway Oilsends Pipeline, which is inland in and further in the south of the BC port of Kitimat, Prince Rupert.

The company said in a written statement on Wednesday that it would find out the market-class projects, provided that the demand is made from customers.

It will also take “real provincial and federal legislative changes” around climate policy, regulator timeliness and indigenous participation.

Nabridge said, “We will be there to make what is necessary for Alberta and for Canada for Canada – this is our job, our mission as a company – but only when the situations are understood and the right framework is in place,” said Neries.

South Bo, Trans Mountain Response

Meanwhile, South Bo Corp will only say that it “carefully evaluate all opportunities, especially those who complement our current property and strengthen our existing corridors.”

South Bo has no infrastructure in BC, its keystone system serves US midwest and gulf coast refineries.

Federly -owned pipeline operator Trans Mountain Corp’s CEO told reporters earlier this month that their company is among those who have talked about a new pipeline by Smith.

But Mark Maki said that “customizing the existing kit” is a priority to create something new for now.

The Trans Mountain Flow in BC Lower Mainland is currently the only way to make Alberta manufacturers to the Asia-Pacific markets meaningful.

The new pipeline Smith’s atmosphere will ship a million barrel oil per day, and there will be a “anchor tenant” on a corridor that gives home to other infrastructure.

Challenges remain

Richard Mason, an executive partner at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy, said it is difficult to see how Smith can entice a private company to bring it on the board.

He said, “She is trying to take advantage of the mood in the country,” she said.

“And my concern is that if you put only one option on the table and that option has a lot of obstacles, then you are going to end with very disappointed people later.”

For Nabridge, Mason said that a stumbling block would be how a potential New West Coast System can affect the economics of its mainline system, which is the largest single groove to flow the Canadian raw raw raw raw drain in the United States on any day by a pipeline.

He said that a new pipeline should be reduced by long commitments from customers to pay to use it, while the mainline is more flexible, he said.

If customers are already closed to pay to use any possible waste coast system, then there is more encouragement to move crude before the mainline.

“This means that the volumes that would be going below the Nabridge Mainline were pulled and put on the new system,” Mason said. “So the enabrid looks like an unexpected company unless there is any kind of industry or government support, so that they do not deteriorate on the mainline system.”

South Bo, which was closed by TC energy last year, is a small company and is unlikely to have such an undertaking capacity, Mason said.

Trans Mountain – A Crown Corporation – last year gave its expansion to a large cost when it was first proposed.

“So, it is not easy to see that it is happening until the federal government says,” we want you to do it, so do it, “Mason said.

Other players and obstacles

Other Canadian energy infrastructure players such as Kira Corp and Pambina Pipeline Corp, a crude pipeline will not be a fit because they are more gear towards natural gas, Mason said.

“If they join it, their investors will be unhappy as it is such a big project than the size of the company and it is beyond their main expertise.”

Another major obstacle is the federal government tanker ban on the west coast, which eventually wrote at the end of the Northern Gateway.

During the debate on the defective project, the first nation and environmental groups were protested against sailing along with the rugged, island-binded northern BC coast with crude oil tankers and raised an alarm on ecological damage that could result in a result of a spread.

Smith and industry players are advancing Ottawa to lift the ban, but till date there is no indication that the liberal government will oblige.

“This is not just an area where we can have a pipeline,” Anna Barford said, the propaganders of the oceans with stand. Irth in Vancouver.

“When Alberta says pipelines, for us it means tanker.”