Alberta Cut to Oil Shipments Would Ripple Across West Coast
- Turning off taps would affect Vancouver airport, U.S. refiners
- Vancouver pump prices could rise to C$2 a liter: Gasbuddy
The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion site in Burnaby, British Columbia, on April 11.
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Alberta’s plan to cut crude and fuel shipments to British Columbia could ripple across the entire west coast of North America, causing pump prices to surge and shifting the flow of international crude.
Legislation introduced Monday would allow oil-rich Alberta to curb the flow of crude and fuel if neighboring British Columbia doesn’t drop its opposition to Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The existing pipeline supplies the Vancouver area with as much as 60 percent of its refined products.