Sunday, March 10, 2013

Another Pipeline Reversal? Northeastern United States, Canada's St Lawrence Seaway

This post will be up for a few minutes and then taken down, and placed in draft status.

I do that for the time-stamp, and then re-post if the information becomes relevant sometime in the future.

Read this story and then look at the map

In case the linked story is taken off the net, a quick summary: the last leg of the Canadian-US pipeline system necessary to move Canadian oil and/or Bakken oil to the east coast:
  • pipeline from Sarnia, Ontario (60 miles NE of Detroit), to Montreal, Quebec (ENB Line 9)
  • pipeline from Montreal, Quebec, to Portland, Maine (the Portland-Montreal Pipeline)
  • the Portland, Maine, terminal
Once oil gets to the Port of Montreal, there may be some options for the Canadian oil shippers. Two options: a) pipeline through a corner of Vermont and New Hampshire to Portland, Maine, terminal (one of the largest oil import terminals in the US); b) oil tankers to the Atlantic via the St Lawrence Seaway.

US faux environmentalists/activists will do what they can to stop the reversal of the PMPL (pronounced "pimple"), and forcing decision to use the St Lawrence seaway.

One indication of how this goes will be watching for news stories of oil activity at the Portland, Maine, terminal.

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