Could there be a Kitimat Refinery?
Posted Aug 17, 2012 12:31 pm.
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British Columbia newspaper magnate David Black is proposing a refinery at Kitimat to process the oilsands bitumen that would be shipped to the north coast from Alberta.
He has created a company, Kitimat Clean Ltd., that is making an environmental assessment application, but he isn’t saying if it has any financial backers.
Black estimates the refinery would cost $13-billion, and hopes it would be completed by 2020.
He says a refinery would remove the threat of offshore pollution from a spill of heavy crude, transportation of refined fuels is safer, and a refinery would provide much more work than a pipeline.
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