Now Some Good News -- October 2, 2015

Enbridge Line 9 To Open

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

Canadian light synthetic crude and North Dakota Bakken crude for November delivery strengthened on Thursday after Enbridge received approval from regulators to open its Line 9 crude pipeline. 

Line 9 will ship 300,000 barrels per day of mostly light inland crude to Montreal, Quebec. 

Background:

Enbridge
Line 9A Reversal

Line 5 Expansion

Line 79

Enbridge Light Oil Market Access Program

Western Canada to Montreal, Quebec 

• Line 9A, reversal, from Sarnia, Ontario, (northeast of Detroit) to North Westover, Ontario: about 120 miles; should be complete by early-2014; 200,000 bopd
• Line 9B: reversal already approved; 
• Line 5, expansion, Superior, MN, to Sarnia, Ontario: should be completed early this year
• Line 79, new, between Stockbridge and Romulus, MI; 50-mile stretch west of Detroit; enters service April, 2013; new pipe and existing leased pipe
• Line 6B (Lakehead), replacement work, between Griffith, IN, and Stockbridge, MI: 200 miles west of Stockbridge; done by end of 2013; Stockbridge, MI, to St Clair River in Marysville, MI, 350 miles running from south, up to Stockbridge, MI; done by early 2014; [seems like two separate lines, one running west to east (Bakken); one running south to North (Cushing)]; Line 6B Phase 2 replacement; replace 75 miles of old pipe; full pipeline will have replaced (sic) once Phase 2 is complete, increasing capacity to 500K bopd from 240K bopd.
• Line 62, expansion, Spearhead North Pipeline, from Flanagan, IL, to terminal at Griffith, IN: to 235K bopd from 130K by adding horsepower.  (Flanagan, IL: southwest of Chicago; out in the middle of nowhere)

A new 330K bbl storage tank to be built at Griffith to existing storage.

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Solution To North Dakota Coal Plant Emissions Found

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

The coal industry in North Dakota got a reprieve Wednesday, along with the promise of some technical help from the federal agency that’s mandating a reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from coal-powered energy plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it will require an implementation plan from the State Health Department in fall of 2018, rather than by September 2016.

The agreement from the EPA to give more time to figure out how power plants will reduce statewide emissions by 45 percent came from pressure applied by Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and John Hoeven, as well as Gov. Jack Dalrymple.

One suggestion: cut off electricity to Minnesota every odd-numbered day. That would cut emissions by about 50%. Coal would then become Minnesota's third intermittent energy source, joining solar and wind energy as intermittent energy sources.

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