http://www.inquisitr.com/1527159/energy-east-as-america-dawdles-on-keystone-xl-canada-ponders-another-route-for-oil/
The Keystone XL pipeline has been a source of controversy and debate since it was announced but it looks like Canada’s oil industry might be willing to ditch Keystone entirely, as they might have found a different route that doesn’t even have to go through America.
The project is called Energy East and, according to a new Bloomberg report, it does exactly that: it takes Canada’s oil sands crude east instead of south. Right now, the project is still in the planning and approval stages, but if it gets the green light, it could let Canada’s oil industry end-run around the difficulties it has faced in getting Keystone built.
It could also light a fire under America to get Keystone XL past its own regulatory hurdles.
Energy East would start off in Alberta, where a wealth of crude oil is locked in that region’s oil sands. The pipeline would run 2,858 miles across Canada to New Brunswick where it would meet the Atlantic, crossing six provinces and four time zones in the process. Oil pumped through the Energy East project would still have access to the same Louisiana and Texas oil refineries that the Keystone XL pipeline was meant to supply.
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