Enbridge to decide next year on Northern Gateway pipeline – CBC

Dec 03, 2015

Energy company not giving up on proposed pipeline, despite tanker ban

Enbridge’s CEO says a decision on whether to build the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline across British Columbia may come in late 2016, though the company is not concerned with sticking to a certain timeline.

Al Monaco also says a ban on tanker traffic along B.C.’s north coast, made official by the new Trudeau Liberal government last month, does not mean Enbridge is giving up — even though many critics have said the ban effectively kills the project.

Monaco says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr have both shown they’re open to listen to Enbridge’s point of view and have talked about the importance of opening new markets for Canadian crude.

Northern Gateway would ship more than half a million barrels a day of Alberta crude to the port of Kitimat, B.C., with the aim of sending tankers to lucrative markets across the Pacific