Enbridge ups the ante over Northern Gateway
Canada must be a ‘global player’ says Daniel; opposition election rivals oppose oil tankers off BC
ENBRIDGE chief executive Pat Daniel has rolled the dice and turned his firm’s Northern Gateway pipeline project into a Canadian election-campaign issue. Candidly acknowledging that Enbridge is in the thick of a battle to sway public opinion, he said this week there was an urgent need for “strong leadership, strategic vision and focused effort” to gain approval for the C$5.5bn ($5.7bn) plan to deliver 0.525m barrels a day (b/d) of oil-sands crude from Alberta to a British Columbia (BC) port for tanker shipment to refineries in the US and Asia. Without waiting for a verdict from environmental regulators who are reviewing the Northern Gateway application, Daniel has urged Canada’s political, bu
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