When the environmentalists are away from their human – tree relationship, they are cooking up: environmental protests, anti-big business schemes and preparing pipeline blockades. However, my analysts conveys Greenpeace, the environmental organization that is among the fierce opponents of Keystone XL pipeline, falling asleep at the helm and loosing track of the Albertan Oil Sands distribution.
The compact florescent lightbulbs began to flicker, as a push for the Keystone XL pipeline came to mexican standoff between the Canadian Federal Government and Greenpeace. In the back lands of Alberta, a new business strategy by Nexen Inc. took to the rails.
My fellow business associate, Brandon Kothe, recently blogged about the Keystone XL pipeline and its five year proposal standoff, https://blogs.ubc.ca/brandonkothe/2013/09/27/recent-news-surrounding-keystone-xl/. His words dictate the political views on the pipeline, as well as the perspective of the populous both in Canada and the United States.
Nevertheless, as my fellow pro-business, oil enthusiasts and stockholders, wait eagerly for an approval, Nexen Inc. has already put one foot in the door and is now taking the bitumen, crude oil, into production to be refined and sold.
Every day, some 65 truckloads of this crude oil roll into the warehouses of Canexus Corp. The thick Albertan Bitumen is transferred into enthusiastic CN railway cars. In the second quarter alone, 14 500 barrels of oil were being processed per day. Canexus is investing $225-million and has hired an workforce of 400 Canadians to develop some 160-acres into a provincial distribution centre for the crude oil.
Nexen and CN Railway have devised a business strategy to distribute the oil as they wait for the pipeline to be approved. A Nexen spokesman informally exclaimed to The New York times: “Listen up folks: if the pipeline isn’t built, the oil will still make it to market. It will simply travel by different means. Shelving Keystone won’t make an iota of difference to the environment, other than possible increasing the risks.”
Nothing that has been stated here is illegal by any means. It’s Greenpeace that have fallen asleep, awoken from a dream and are now in a nightmare of a predicament, and have refused to acknowledge the obvious.