LIne 5The only realistic alternative to the closing of line 5 would be to reactivate the old Portland Pipeline system and reverse Line 9 once again but that would yield only 240 Kbpd versus 540 kbpd required
It would also take many months to accomplish (at best) , time that Canada no longer has. Ditto for constructing offloading systems for crude by rail or even worse crude by truck which would only be symbolic at best and another constant reminder to the population of the complete ineptitude of our Federal Government !!