An Alternate View on Pipelines — Transport Ammonia not Crude

 TransCanada Corporation’s (TCC) Energy East Pipeline (EEP) has been getting a lot of coverage in the news lately. Rather than building additional capacity in Alberta to refine Canadian bitumen and crude oil into high value finished products, the oil industry has been looking for ways to export oil to U.S.

AN OVERVIEW: Pipelines and Progress

 Image: wikipedia  Canadian oil and gas production, which represents nearly one- quarter of Canadian exports, is increasing but options to transport the products via cross-continent pipelines have created political controversy. The arguments centre on increased use of North American energy supply and resources versus the detriments of global warming and