The Short Answer First Nations Clash With Enbridge Over Northern Gateway – Wall Street Journal

Apr 19, 2015

Indigenous communities in Canada are fighting Enbridge Inc.’s plans to build Northern Gateway, a 730-mile pipeline to ship Canadian oil to a West Coast port for export to Asia. The company, Ottawa and oil producers see the pipeline as key to helping the country lessen its almost total dependence on U.S. demand for oil. But the aboriginal groups say the environmental and cultural risks are too great.

What’s at stake?

Canada, which is also contending with delays to another, better known pipeline, TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL, which would carry oil south across the U.S. to the Gulf Coast, has pledged to sell more oil outside the U.S. market, where surging supply means Canadian oil trades at a discount. And as a series of fiery oil-train derailments has brought scrutiny and tougher regulations on rail shipments, oil sands producers and policy makers have made finishing the Gateway pipeline a priority.

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