Posted on March 16, 2016
By Harry Valentine, The Maritime Executive
The Western Canadian province of Alberta is blessed with abundant oil reserves, while an oil refinery located in the Eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick seeks delivery of that oil, via pipeline. However, several mayors of towns and cities located in the province of Quebec oppose the pipeline carrying oil through their towns.
The town of Magog, Quebec, was the site of a tragic derailment involving a train carrying crude oil from Western to Eastern Canada. Perhaps by an extraordinary coincidence, the oil pipeline passes in very close proximity to two former bulk docks on the St Lawrence River.
Both docks are located in the south-eastern region of the province of Ontario and very close to Quebec. One port was owned and operated by Universal Terminals and located directly south of Ottawa, near the town of Morrisburg, while the other dock is located at the Port of Cornwall that still operates as a bulk terminal with underground tanks of calcium chloride.
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