Pros And Cons Of Energy East Pipeline

The Energy East pipeline came onto the federal government agenda as with the creation of the pipeline, it would potentially create 14,000 full-time jobs, 55 billion dollars boost to Canada’s GDP and would displace 1,500 rail cars daily. https://www.transcanada.com/en/operations/oil-and-liquids/energy-east/). Canada favors the idea of pipelines, to an extent that there have been four pipeline projects proposed all which will carry oil either to British Columbia or expand to the US. (__) Currently, the pipeline industry is fairly large in Canada. According to Alberta’s Oil Sands Discovery Centre Fact Sheet, “approximately 700,000 km of pipelines transport virtually all of Canada’s crude oil and natural gas production to consumers in Canada