Pipeline

Line 3 pipeline costs higher due to regulatory delays, route changes

Canada

Line 3 pipeline runs from Hardisty, AB to Superior, WI In its 2017 second quarter report, Enbridge says regulatory delays and route modifications will boost the cost of the Line 3 pipeline replacement project. The company also reported a lower-than-expected Q2 profit. Enbridge says the project that runs from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin will […]

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TransCanada to expand Canadian Mainline capacity through new investment

Canada

Expansion will move additional 80 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, much of it from West to Eastern Canada markets TransCanada Corporation announced it will apply to the National Energy Board to expand the capacity of the Canadian Mainline System through its Maple Compressor Station near Vaughan, Ontario, according to a press release.

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Fort Nelson First Nation files judicial review to protect threatened boreal caribou

Canada

“BCOGC demonstrated inadequate, unlawful and wholly unacceptable approach to consultation” Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN) has filed for a judicial review of the BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) approval of Rockyview Resources Inc.’s recent gas pipeline project, according to a press release. “The 39km proposed gas pipeline cuts right through core caribou habitat in

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Pipeline tampering activists beware, industry and CSIS monitoring energy infrastructure

Jude on Alberta

CSIS not releasing details, but says it is monitoring threats to energy infrastructure Construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline is set to begin this fall, which raises the spectre of more pipeline tampering of the sort engaged in last fall by five Climate Direct Action actvists, who shut valves on high-pressure pipelines, then waited

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Texas pipeline rupture forces evacuations, shut down of Magellan pipeline

USA

Texas pipeline rupture near Bastrop A Texas pipeline rupture near the city of Bastrop on Thursday morning spilled about 1,200 barrels of oil and forced the evacuation of nearby residents. The Longhorn pipeline is operated by Magellan Midstream Partners and transports crude from Crane, Texas to Houston.  The line ruptured about 4 miles southwest of

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Alberta regulator introduces OneStop for pipeline licence applications

Canada

All new pipeline applications must be submitted using new OneStop platform The Alberta Energy Regulator(AER) announced the launch of a new online process for new pipeline construction applications under the Pipeline Act using the OneStop platform, according to a press release. All new pipeline construction applications of the following types must be submitted using OneStop:

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Dakota Access Pipeline keeps delivering oil during legal battle

News

Additional review of environmental impact of Dakota Access Pipeline underway A judge has ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline will continue to transport oil even though authorities are currently conducting an additional environmental impact review. Last week in Washington, US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in favour of the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River

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TransCanada spends $2 billion to expand Nova gas line to US, benefits Alberta producers

Canada

New gas supply and increased export demand drives major expansions TransCanada Corporation announced it will move forward with a new $2 billion expansion program on its NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) System, based on new contracted customer demand for approximately 3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of incremental firm receipt and delivery services. “Between

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Army Corps of Engineers did not consider Dakota Access Pipeline impact: Judge

News

Unclear if judge will stop Dakota Access Pipeline oil flow Two Native American tribes who opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline scored a legal victory this week when a US District Judge ruled the Army Corps of Engineers did not fully consider the pipeline’s impact on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. According to a Reuters report,

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