Earlier this month when pipeline operator Enbridge said its Line 3 pipeline will only return to operation in the second half of 2020, it was very bad news for Alberta. Producers in Alberta will have been hoping to start boosting production again once the government-instituted cuts expired at the end of this year. That would have happened if Line 3 had resumed operation as initially scheduled, at the end of 2019. The delay to 2020 could be very damaging for Canada’s oil industry. Enbridge said in early March it had received from the state of Minnesota a timeline for collecting all necessary permits for the replacement of the pipeline. This timeline, however, was longer than the company had banked on, moving the restart date of Line 3 to some time after June 2020. The new, expanded Line 3 will have a capacity of 370,000 bpd. When Alberta’s Premier Rachel […]