Northern Gateway pipeline by the numbers

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel has recommended the federal government approve the project, but with 209 conditions. We take a look at some of the numbers in the controversial pipeline debate.

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Here are the numbers related to the proposed pipeline:

• 3 feet - the diameter of the pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast.
• 10% the share of the project ownership offered to First Nations and Mtis.
• 20 inches the diameter of the pipeline that would carry condensate back to Northern Alberta.
• 220 tankers the number of cargo ships that would be loaded with crude oil each year in Kitimat.
• 560 jobs the number of long-term jobs the pipeline would provide.
• 1,177 km the distance the pipeline would stretch from the oil sands to the Pacific Ocean.
• 3,000 the number of workers needed to build the pipeline.
• 520,000 barrels the amount of oil the pipeline would carry each day.
• $1.2 billion the amount of tax revenue promised to B.C. over the next 30 years.
• $2.4 billion the lower estimate of the economic cost of a major tanker spill on the West Coast
• $6.5 billion the number of dollars the project is expected to cost.
• $9.5 billion the highest estimate of the economic cost of a major tanker spill on the West Coast.

(Sources: Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, UBC Fisheries Economic Research Unit.)