Pipelines are lining up again to satisfy Asia’s growing thirst for Canadian crude oil.
For Canadian oilsands producers, the door to the Far East is still closed. If one of two pipeline giants succeeds in building a line to Canada´s West Coast, that door will swing wide, opening Canadians to a new world of customers.

(Oct 2008 [...]

KMP Acquires Pipelines from Knight
HOUSTON, Aug 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE:KMP) today announced it has acquired two pipeline systems from Knight Inc., the private entity which owns the general partner of KMP. The purchase includes Knight’s one-third interest in the Express-Platte crude oil pipeline systems that run from Alberta [...]

(Prince George Citizen - August 6 2008) by GORDON HOEKSTRA

Enbridge Inc. has put its proposed $4.2-billion oil and condensate pipeline through northern B.C. back on the front burner after shelving it in late 2006.
The company says it has raised $100 million from Western Canadian producers and key Asian refiners to get the project through the [...]

(Burnaby Now - August 06, 2008)
A local activist is sounding the alarm about Burnaby’s oil sector.
Harjap Grewal, spokesperson for Tar Sands Free B.C., says the future expansion of local refineries could pave the way for oil sands expansion in Alberta.
“The development that’s happening in Alberta is very much dependent on what happens in B.C.,” Grewal [...]

One year ago this week, an accident ruptured a pipeline in North Burnaby and sent nearly a quarter of a million litres of crude oil spurting over homes and into Burrard Inlet. Below, in the first part of a special report, reporter Brooke Larsen looks at the impact of the spill a year later. [...]

MARK HUME (The Globe and Mail - June 9, 2008)
VANCOUVER — In the 1970s, the threat of devastating oil spills on British Columbia’s coast became a reality when the Trans Alaska Pipeline was completed, linking the Prudhoe Bay oil fields to the shipping port of Valdez, Alaska.

Jon Harding (Canwest News Service - July 02, 2008)

CALGARY — A second large shipper of oil from Canada to the United States has confirmed interest is heating up between Canadian producers and refining customers in Asia and along the United States’ West Coast.
As a result, Kinder Morgan Canada began two months ago to ramp up [...]

(CBC News - April 23, 2008)
Construction crews will soon be digging trenches and laying a major oil pipeline along the scenic route through Mount Robson Provincial Park, which covers 224,866 hectares through the B.C. portion of the Rocky Mountains.
Once the project is complete, it will allow Kinder Morgan Canada, the company building the pipeline, to [...]

(Vancouver Sun - May 28, 2008) by Scott Simpson

Encana Corp. expects natural gas production from B.C.’s northeast to double or triple in the coming decades.
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is emerging as a North American energy “powerhouse” thanks to vast untapped natural gas reserves that have exploration companies scrambling for a share of the resource, a [...]

Super-sized new pipe is being laid in Alberta oil’s lone route west across the Rocky Mountains to prepare for years of staged export increases onto world energy markets.
Gordon Jaremko (The Edmonton Journal - November 03 2007)
“It’s a fundamental advantage we have,” Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson said in explaining the scale of a project [...]