Canada's Growing Oil Production

(Ottawa, CA) - Canada is growing it's economy by drilling oil. But the oil will pile-up. The Canadian government had less than a month to decide if they needed new oil pipelines in the country to move the oil.

The countdown is underway. The federal government has less than one month to make a decision on whether to approve Kinder Morgan's expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s coast.

Opponents of the project have their own reasons to why the pipeline shouldn't be built. They included that the pipeline would increase the environmental risks, pipe spills and contamination. 

If Ottawa gives Kinder Morgan the green light in December, the federal government must believe the positives outweigh all the negatives. 

Canada Could Abandon Pipelines...

Rail can be slow but using it to transport oil could be the trick. Canada has been transporting lots of barrels a day! But in 2014 oil by pipe has been growing, I guess Canada needs rail to transports! 

"There's close to a million barrels per day of idle capacity in Western Canada [on rail]. Certainly that will be called upon once things start to get a little bit congested out there."

Oil producers favour pipelines compared with using trains, because shipping by rail is more expensive. Some companies have referred to crude by rail as an insurance policy in case new export pipelines aren't constructed.