How British Columbia’s Natural Gas Helps Fuel Alberta’s Oil Sands

The Tyee

There is an irony in Canada’s internal battle over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, meant to carry tar sands oil from landlocked Alberta to the British Columbia coast, a resource policy analyst writes. Oil production in Alberta’s oil sands is powered in part by a glut of cheap natural gas, created in part by gas producers in British Columbia, the province fighting the pipeline expansion.

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