Category: Sydney

A Senate report recommends extending the Energy East Pipeline through to the Strait of Canso instead of stopping in Saint John where an export terminal is planned.

The Chronicle Herald reports the Senate’s Transport and Communications Committee recommends the National Energy Board examine Point Tupper as the end point.

TransCanada Corp, which is building the pipeline; says it’s not interested.

Two Nova Scotia senators on the committee say you cannot ship heavy oil out of the east coast without going through Nova Scotia waters so that province should share in the benefits because of the risk.

They also say it would alleviate heavy tanker traffic in the ecologically sensitive Bay of Fundy.

The Obama administration may be a lame duck but it has introduced a bill to simplify border crossings in the U-S Congress.

Both the Harper and Trudeau governments have signed preclearance deals with the Obama administration, but it requires changes to the law and American lawmakers have not made it a priority.

The plan would see travellers headed south to pre-clear customs long before they get to the border.