I am pleased to present this blog as a kind of successor to a small website I operated a few years ago, www.supportthepipeline.org. It's a site I started in response to what I viewed at the time as undue preference on the part of Canadian officials for a Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline over an Alaska Highway gas line. Since neither project is yet underway even now, the point was moot.
This blog is not intended to be a news source. News on pipeline developments is available from a number of excellent sources, including Petroleum News, Northern Gas Pipelines, and the business pages of the Anchorage Daily News and the Calgary Herald. These are all great sources of information on northern pipeline projects, and I wouldn't dream of competing with them.
I mean for this blog to fill a small but significant gap; commentary on the northern pipeline projects and the impact they will have on the Yukon Territory.
Both projects will have a major impact on life in the Yukon. The Alaska Highway Natural Gas (AHNG) pipeline will have a more obvious impact, since it will actually run through the territory, but the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline (MGP) project is important to Yukoners, too. The construction of this line would employ many Yukon labourers, tradespeople and businesses, and may provide transportation for potential Yukon gas fields in the Eagle Plains region.
I think it's important that a "Yukon point of view" be presented on these major projects. I don't pretend to be the authority, but I'm definitely interested. I'd like to hear from others as well.
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