Victoria newspaper publisher David Black first floated the $22-billion proposal to build a 400,000-barrel-a-day refinery on B.C.’s North Coast in 2012.
Victoria businessman David Black is pondering whether political winds might be blowing back in favour of his independent proposal to build an oil refinery near Kitimat, as opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion to Burnaby.
However, with Alberta premier-elect Jason Kenney preparing to take office and odds wavering over the possibility of a turnover in government at Ottawa after October’s election, Black is reflecting on the supportive comments he has heard from conservative camps.Black, whose regular job is owner of Black Press, first proposed his plan in 2012.
And with sky-high Metro Vancouver gasoline prices sharing space at the top of the political agenda, Black has reconnected with B.C. and Alberta political leaders urging them to focus more on co-operation than their divisions over the Trans Mountain project. Black’s Kitimat Clean proposal would be a $22-billion project to turn bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands into solid pellets for shipment by train to a refinery north of Kitimat. Refined gas, diesel and other petroleum products — not diluted bitumen — would be loaded onto tankers for shipment to markets around the world.
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