ALBERTA'S TAR SANDS

Alberta's Tar Sands

Alberta's Tar Sands

Oil businesses, such as Enbridge and TransCanada, have constructed an overcapacity of pipelines to convey oil to the Midwest United States where demand is less than they initially thought, and now are looking to construct pipelines from Alberta to the Pacific seaboard area to capitalize on markets in Asia and California, said Richard Girard from the Polaris Institute. “The future designs for Enbridge is to try to get oil to Asian markets, and California by boats it to the Pacific Coast, putting it on big tankers and sending it across the sea or down ...