Posted on 11/30/2015 5:37:52 AM PST by thackney
A company that owns the largest oil pipeline system in Wisconsin is considering construction of a major new pipeline that is likely to rekindle many of the arguments from the Keystone XL debate.
Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. told investment analysts in October the company was contemplating building a new line that would start in Superior and travel the length of the state.
Executives say they are weighing many factors: an anticipated political fight, the pace of new oil development in Canada and the prospects of higher oil prices.
Crude oil's sharp price decline has curtailed many new oil projects, but the company painted a bullish picture for the pipeline sector by the end of the decade, and estimated producers could need new capacity of nearly 1 million barrels a day by 2025.
"We are highly confident that we will see the heavy production grow as expected," Guy Jarvis, president of liquids pipelines for Enbridge, said at an investment conference in Toronto Oct. 7.
That could mean a big inflow of oil through Wisconsin in the years ahead.
Since the defeat this fall of the Keystone XL pipeline that would have moved crude oil from Alberta to Nebraska, environmentalists have been paying closer attention to Enbridge's expansion plans in Canada, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Environmental groups -- including the Sierra Club and 350 Madison in Wisconsin -- have raised questions about the company's record of oil spills.
"We think it's the industry's last-ditch effort to go through the Midwest," said Elizabeth Ward of the Wisconsin Sierra Club.
Enbridge's existing network of three crude oil pipelines moves oil from Canada and North Dakota to refiners in metropolitan Chicago and other markets, including the Gulf Coast.
By the end of 2016, the company says it will have capacity in Wisconsin of 2.2 million barrels a_day...
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
LOL! If the general population had even the slightest clue as to how expansive the total pipeline system is across the country.
Geeez. Right next to the existing pipeline. Kinda hard to Obama that. (Those bungholes will find a way, for now)
From just one company:
http://www.enbridge.com/DeliveringEnergy/OurPipelines.aspx
At Enbridge, we connect people to the energy they need to fuel their quality of life. Enbridge operates the world’s longest and most complex crude oil and liquids transportation system, with approximately 16,892 miles (27,185 kilometres) of crude pipeline across North America.
We deliver an average of 2.2 million barrels of crude oil and liquids every day, with a 99.9994% safe delivery record over the past decade while moving more than 15 billion barrels of crude.
We transport 53 per cent of U.S.-bound Canadian production, a figure that accounts for 15 per cent of total U.S. crude oil imports.
On any single day, Enbridge is the largest single conduit of oil into the U.S. We move close to 100 separate commodities, including more than 10 types of refined products.
If no change in the border crossing portion, no state department review.
I’m guessing this was planned all along since the Embridge line across southern Michigan has vastly increased capacity. The one across the Mackinaw strait is going to be phased out.
A map of Enbridge’s Liquids Pipelines
http://www.enbridge.com/~/media/www/Site%20Images/Illustrations/Maps/ENB_Liquids_map.pdf?la=en
That’ll frost their cookies at the rainbow hut.
You got stock? LOL! A little better safety record than warren boof-eh’s choo choo’s.
That picture makes it look like a blight on our landscape, but I have lived here my entire life and spent a lot of time traveling our state. I can honestly say I have never even SEEN that pipeline!
And I would MUCH rather we transport crude THAT way than have to clean up railway crude spills - of which we’ve had two BAD ones just this year!
Same here. The only way to know there is a pipeline are the cleared path of the line and the little signs.
Any link to more info would be appreciated.
until reading that article, I didn’t fully appreciate the volume of crude coming in from Canada as compared to the Gulf. Folks here talking about obama taking cues from his Saudi masters are really on to something....
I was incorrect. Not phased out but upgraded with the agreement that it wouldn’t carry heavy crude.
Oh, yes. I’m well aware of this massive system - it’s just nice that it’s not a blight on the landscape.
Unlike those ugly wind machines. *SMIRK*
Thanks for the link. Over 6 decades old without a leak.
http://www.enbridge.com/InYourCommunity/PipelinesInYourCommunity/Enbridge-in-Michigan/Line-5.aspx
It is a multi-use line. They send propane through the same line as well.
One of the good things Rick Snyder did was put pipeline safety oversight in the hands of the State Attorney General and its proven to be an effective non adversarial relationship. Embridge, the DEQ and other relevant agencies conduct inspections together and all reports go directly to the AG’s office.
2 years ago during an inspection of the line under the straits they found two missing support struts. Not only did they replace the missing struts, they doubled the number of existing struts without being required to do so.
Owner of Wisconsin’s largest pipeline company seeking to expand.
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