Exec: Market to decide on N. Plains pipeline stop


Published/Last Modified on Friday, February 5, 2010 3:10 PM CST

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Canadian energy executive says a proposed major oil pipeline to the Gulf Coast could include a stop in the Northern Plains to take on American crude, but cautioned that the market will determine the feasibility and location of a terminal.

Meeting with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Friday, TransCanada Vice President Robert Jones said the company's Keystone XL pipeline would not exclusively deliver fuel from Canada's massive oil sands reserves.

Jones said the 1,980 mile pipeline could also carry conventional oil from Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana.

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But the executive declined to endorse Schweitzer's bid for a loading terminal around the small town of Baker, where the pipeline will pass near eastern Montana's oil fields.

Montana's Public Service Commission chairman said this week that Keystone XL might not get state approval without such a facility.


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