Canol Pipeline, a 10 cm oil pipeline built from 1942 to 1944 from Norman Wells, NWT, 1000 km to a refinery at Whitehorse, Yukon. The American armed forces, which urged the project on a reluctant Canadian government, wanted a secure supply of oil products to fuel defence efforts in the Northwest. The refinery was to produce 3000 barrels a day. The pipeline was a fiasco, costing over 5 times its $24-million estimate, and it was plagued by shoddy workmanship. Its deficiencies, exposed by a United States Senate committee chaired by Harry Truman, embarrassed the American military. When the pipeline was abandoned in March 1945 after 13 months' operation, it left a festering scar across the Canadian Northwest - a "junkyard monument to military stupidity."
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- Coates, Kenneth S.. "Canol Pipeline". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 July 2014, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canol-pipeline. Accessed 14 October 2024.
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- Coates, K. (2014). Canol Pipeline. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canol-pipeline
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- Coates, Kenneth S.. "Canol Pipeline." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 06, 2006; Last Edited July 16, 2014.
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- The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Canol Pipeline," by Kenneth S. Coates, Accessed October 14, 2024, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canol-pipeline
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Canol Pipeline
Article by Kenneth S. Coates
Published Online February 6, 2006
Last Edited July 16, 2014
Canol Pipeline, a 10 cm oil pipeline built from 1942 to 1944 from Norman Wells, NWT, 1000 km to a refinery at Whitehorse, Yukon.