Doug Ford startet Machbarkeitsstudie einer Ost-West-Ölpipeline

As a British Columbian concerned for our forestry, fisheries, and tourism industries; and who remembers the Valdez, the [current shellfish closures](https://maps.bccdc.ca/shellfish/) due to [spills](https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/shellfish-mollusques/contamination/a-s-7-eng.html), and who fears another tragedy and its impact on our beautiful natural ecosystems and the industries that depend on it…

>To be completed next year, the study will look at costs as well as route options linking oil and natural gas from Alberta and Saskatchewan to “new and established refineries” in southern Ontario and new ports on the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and James Bay, Ford said in a statement Thursday.

That’s far more likely to succeed than any proposal that follows a similar route as the Northern Gateway proposal.

>Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has also promoted his province as part of a route for a future trade corridor, including a pipeline, to get products from Western Canada to international markets and transmit Manitoba’s low-carbon hydroelectricity westward. 

Altogether looks positive for the pipeline, but I expect this won’t pull the heat off of British Columbia. The demand for additional pipelines through BC won’t cease until the tar sands become economically nonviable.