Premier Kathleen Wynne has narrowed Ontario’s environmental concerns about the Energy East pipeline project during talks today with her Albertan counterpart Jim Prentice.
Ontario and Quebec set out seven principles for the 12-billion-dollar project — which would carry western crude to refineries in eastern Canada — the most notable relating to the potential environmental impact.
But Wynne says central Canada’s concerns about Energy East’s contribution to climate change are limited to greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario and Quebec from the project itself.
She says the seven principles do not extend to so-called upstream emissions resulting from getting the crude out of the ground, refining and burning it.