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Canada's Alberta to fly oil via airships, it says on April Fools

Published 2016-04-01, 02:31 p/m
© Reuters. Canada's Alberta to fly oil via airships, it says on April Fools
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TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - Canada's oil-producing province
of Alberta, stymied by the U.S. decision to block the Keystone
XL pipeline and by other market access problems, said on Friday
it will use zeppelins to bring its products to markets around
the world.
Alberta's left-leaning New Democrat government used April
Fools' Day to solve the problem of getting bitumen, oil and
natural gas from the land-locked province without going through
the long consultations and reviews that have frustrated its oil
industry.
In the same statement, Premier Rachel Notley said airships
are both "safe and environmentally friendly."
"Airship technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since
the Hindenburg," she added, referencing the 1937 airship
disaster that killed 36 people.
The premier's office confirmed the project is an April
Fools' Day joke.
The provincial government said half of the 200 balloons for
the airships will be made in Alberta, a stipulation that will
"kickstart a nascent aerospace industry."
"The first shipments to refineries in the Asia-Pacific
region are expected to land in foreign markets by April 1,
2017," the Alberta government said.
The province's previously booming economy has been hard hit
by the global crude price slump, with companies slashing
billions of dollars in capital spending and laying off tens of
thousands of workers.
President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada Corp's Keystone
XL pipeline project to the United States last year. The fate of
the company's Energy East project, to the provinces of Quebec
and New Brunswick, awaits a National Energy Board's review.

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