Aboriginal leaders stand firm against Northern Gateway pipeline

CBC.ca Stars lend power to fight The public hearings continue in Kitamaat Village Wednesday before moving on to Terrace, BC, Thursday afternoon. MAP Canada’s crude oil pipeline Charting TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline Members from Douglas Channel … Click for more

A tale of two pipelines: the Northern Gateway and the Keystone XL

GlobalNews.ca As the fate of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project is decided at lengthy public hearings in Kitimat, BC, Globalnews.ca compares Enbridge’s plans with TransCanada’s Keystone XL proposal. ENBRIDGE: The Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline is a proposed … Click for more

Public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern pipeline to begin Jan. 10

Vancouver Sun Enbridge’s Northern Gateway bid is to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, along a 1172-kilometre route to Kitimat on the BC coast. One would be a 36-inch pipe, which would deliver to Kitimat for export up to 525000 … Click for more

Asian fuel demands spur plans for natural gas terminals on west coast

Vancouver Sun The Hague, Netherlands-based Shell and partners China National Petroleum Corp., Korea Gas Corp. and Mitsubishi are planning to start shipping LNG from Kitimat, British Columbia, as early as 2016. The companies aim to export between 700 million to 1.2 …

BC’s Kitimat LNG terminal wins export licence

Globe and Mail “The board also recognizes that long-term oil-indexed sales contracts could provide for higher netbacks to Canadian producers.” With “the size of Canada’s natural gas resource, proximity to markets in Asia and Canada’s stable political and regulatory … Click for more

Canada Approves Plan For British Columbia LNG Shipments To Asia

Fox Business (APA), Encana Inc. (ECA) and EOG Resources Inc. (EOG), received the license from Canada’s National Energy Board to export from a deepwater port in Kitimat, BC The license is a step forward for the project, initially estimated to cost C$5.6 billion, … Click for more

Kitimat LNG takes big step forward

CFTKTV The majority of the natural gas supply will come from northeastern BC and be transported to Kitimat by pipeline. Wall says about 50 people are currently working on site preparation at Bish Cove, where the marine export terminal will be built. … Click for more

US mulls major levy on cargo coming from BC ports

Globe and Mail Canadian governments at all levels have invested $3.5-billion in modernizing the ports at Prince Rupert and Vancouver, and in related road, rail and border infrastructure. But although BC’s share of West-Coast container traffic bound for the US has … Click for more

Rio Tinto hiring hundreds of workers in Canada because of modernization projects

Winnipeg Free Press Positions are also being filled in Kitimat, BC, Labrador City, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina and Thunder Bay, Ont. Rio Tinto Alcan is preparing for a global aluminum recovery by spending more than US$1 billion to continue developing two low-cost smelters … Click for more

Liquefied Natural Gas: Target Asia

BusinessWeek Wall, who runs the Canadian division of Apache, the largest US independent oil and gas company, is courting Asian natural gas importers such as Korea Gas, hoping they will buy a liquid form of the fuel from a $3.5 billion terminal planned for Kitimat, … Click for more

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