Oil industry to push back against ‘fear’ – kingstonregion.com

April 23, 2015

Besieged by pipeline protestors, plunging prices, Canada’s oil industry pushes back, calling for national consensus

For a month and a half last fall, Ian Anderson watched as “a couple of hundred” protesters dominated media coverage and held up his company’s plans to build a pipeline under British Columbia’s Burnaby Mountain.

Kinder Morgan’s $5.4 billion TransMountain pipeline is a key piece of the Canadian oil industry’s strategy for opening up new markets in Asia for Alberta’s oil sands.

But the plan to drill a couple of test holes in the mountain had been stalled by a group of international eco-activists, anti-trade activists, first nations, university profs, mothers and daughters, Anderson told a business audience in Toronto Wednesday.

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