Carney expected to unveil pipeline deal with Alberta
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said her government has been negotiating a "grand bargain" on carbon capture and an oil pipeline with the federal government.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to unveil an agreement with Alberta Thursday which could clear the way for a new oil pipeline in exchange for stronger environmental regulations, while also walking back some of Ottawa’s climate policies.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said her government has been negotiating with Ottawa a “grand bargain” which would see the proposed Pathways Alliance carbon-capture project move forward alongside a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday, Carney said the memorandum of understanding with Alberta “is about much more than one thing.”
“It’s about building this economy, it’s about making Canada more independent, and it’s about making Canada more sustainable,” Carney said, adding there would be “many aspects” to Thursday’s announcement.
Carney has vowed to make Canada an “energy superpower.” Standing in the way of a pipeline to the coast is the tanker ban, a moratorium prohibiting tankers from carrying more than 12,500 metric tonnes of crude oil in areas along the northern coast of British Columbia.
The tanker ban became law in 2019 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau and has been a prime target of the government of Alberta.
B.C. Premier David Eby has called on Ottawa to keep the ban in place. The president of the Coastal First Nations in British Columbia said Wednesday an oil pipeline to the province’s north coast “will never happen.”
Carney and his ministers have maintained no pipeline will go through B.C. without the approval of the province and First Nations.
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