Alberta Tar Sands Oil Flows South As Keystone Pipeline Opened
Wood River Refinery, now connected directly to Alberta
Yesterday the valve was turned, opening the Keystone Pipeline. The converted natural gas pipeline ships 435,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands crude each day to Conoco-Phillips’ refinery in Wood River, Illinois. Some have called it an “environmental Armageddon”; TransCanada Pipelines disagrees, saying in the Globe and Mail: