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No XL pipeline, how about railways?

hypocritexposer

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Vancouver-based Generating for Seven Generations, or G7G, is expecting to know whether it will get C$40 million in financing to study the feasibility of its plan to build a rail line from Alberta to Alaska to connect with the Valdez Marine Terminal, while a coalition of railroads and producers is scheduled to decide whether it will conduct an experimental shipment of 2 million barrels of crude this summer through the Hudson Bay port at Churchill, Manitoba, to either the North American Atlantic Seaboard or Europe.

G7G Director Matt Vickers said his company’s plan involves a 1,600-mile rail line from the Alberta oil sands to Delta Junction, Alaska, where it would feed into the Trans Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez.

The grand objective for the proponents is to eventually carry up to 5 million barrels per day on a twin-track system that would allow 12 trains per day to deliver crude to super tankers at Valdez, with each train of 240 cars carrying about 153,000 barrels.

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/838796455.shtml
 

Cowpuncher

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why don't they build such a pipeline to the Montana or North Dakota border, offload onto a train for about five miles and pump it into the XL pipeline which would be on the US side?
 

Broke Cowboy

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How about Canada simply refine the oil - build a large distribution centre on the border - and let the US trucks come and get bulk gas and diesel?

The stuff crosses the border every day in trucks anyways.

That way Canadians get the jobs and the US gets the fuel

The US lefties get their wish and this BS is done.

Oh wait! We cannot build a refinery in Canada - we got our environazis as well

Screw it - leave it in the ground - there will come a time when someone wants it bad enough that it will happen.

BC
 

TexasBred

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hypocritexposer said:
Vancouver-based Generating for Seven Generations, or G7G, is expecting to know whether it will get C$40 million in financing to study the feasibility of its plan to build a rail line from Alberta to Alaska to connect with the Valdez Marine Terminal, while a coalition of railroads and producers is scheduled to decide whether it will conduct an experimental shipment of 2 million barrels of crude this summer through the Hudson Bay port at Churchill, Manitoba, to either the North American Atlantic Seaboard or Europe.

G7G Director Matt Vickers said his company’s plan involves a 1,600-mile rail line from the Alberta oil sands to Delta Junction, Alaska, where it would feed into the Trans Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez.

The grand objective for the proponents is to eventually carry up to 5 million barrels per day on a twin-track system that would allow 12 trains per day to deliver crude to super tankers at Valdez, with each train of 240 cars carrying about 153,000 barrels.

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/838796455.shtml

How long would it take to unload 12 trains carring 5 million barrels of oil?? Rail cars don't have "big" spigots. :wink:
 
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