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| Kinder Morgan pipeline: Canadian government to buy project for $4.5bn | |
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| Canada’s federal government has announced it will buy a controversial pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast to ensure it gets built. | |
| Justin Trudeau’s government plans to spend C$4.5bn (US$3.45bn) to purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. | |
| The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would triple the capacity of an existing pipeline to ship oil extracted from the oil sands in Alberta across the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies. It would end at a terminal outside Vancouver, resulting in a seven-fold increase in the number of tankers in an environmentally sensitive area. | |
| The project has faced fierce opposition from environmentalists and indigenous groups. | |
| Kinder Morgan earlier halted essential spending on the project and said it would cancel it altogether if the national and provincial governments could not guarantee it. | |
| Finance minister Bill Morneau said the pipeline must and will be built. “Make no mistake: this is an investment in Canada’s future,” Morneau said. | |
| The line would allow Canada to diversify and increase exports to Asia, where it could command a higher price. Canada has the world’s third largest oil reserves but 99% of its exports now go to refiners in the US, where limits on pipeline and refinery capacity mean Canadian oil sells at a discount. | |
| The project has pitted Alberta against coastal British Columbia, where concerns about fisheries, real estate values, tourism and ocean ecology are high. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson calls the pipeline an “unacceptable risk” that threatens 10,000 jobs in the harbor. | |
| The Trans Mountain expansion is projected to lead to a tanker traffic balloon from about 60 to more than 400 vessels annually as the pipeline flow increases from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. | |
| Morneau said the government doesn’t intend to be a long-term owner of the pipeline. | |
| Analysts have said China is eager to get access to Canada’s oil, but largely gave up hope that a pipeline to the Pacific coast would be built. | |
| The project also has strong support in Canada, where energy production has become a key part of the economy. Trudeau approved the expansion, arguing that it was “economically necessary” and enabled him to overcome opposition to a carbon tax plan that will help Canada cut its greenhouse emissions. | |
| But many indigenous people see the 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) of new pipeline as a threat to their lands, echoing concerns raised by Native Americans about the Keystone XL project in the U.S. Many in Canada say it also raises broader environmental concerns by enabling increased development of the carbon-heavy oil sands. | |
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