The Conservatives in Canada’s federal government, as well as those in Alberta’s provincial governmental, are eager to expand the production oil in Alberta’s Tar Sands.  But, in order for that to happen, pipelines must be built to get the bitumen into the hands of new customers.  There is the Keystone XL pipeline to Texas.  The Northern Gateway pipeline to the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.  And now, the latest addition to the collection of Tar Sands pipeline that will (I hope) never get built is a proposed pipeline that would go from Alberta, through Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec to end up at refineries in Atlantic Canada.  The distance between those two end points, in a straight line, is beyond 3,000 km (or 2,000 miles for those who do not use the metric system).

Obviously, the real length of this pipeline will be much greater.

Politicians here in Atlantic Canada…