The Alberta government says it will be announcing plans for its proposed pipeline to the West Coast on Thursday.
It’s a change from the province’s previous plan to give details on Tuesday, according to information available on a publicly viewable website.
“We will have a major announcement on July 2 to share new details about the Government of Alberta’s submission to the Major Projects Office for a new one-million-barrel-per-day oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast,” Sam Blackett, press secretary to Premier Danielle Smith, said in an email to Global News.
Smith and her government previously said they planned to present a final pipeline proposal to Ottawa on July 1. Blackett noted that July 1 was a holiday in his email to Global News.
Tim Hodgson, federal minister of energy and natural resources, said Monday that negotiations between Ottawa and Alberta toward a pipeline deal were “going well.”
Asked Monday if Alberta’s adoption of the Pathways carbon storage project was necessary to secure a deal, he said the pipeline and carbon capture initiative were “mutually dependent on one another.”
Earlier this month, documents first reported on by CBC News showed a number of options for the pipeline, with the majority ending in British Columbia.
Heather Exner-Pirot, with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, told Global News it appeared all the routes were going farther north than the Northern Gateway pipeline.
Exner-Pirot, who is also a special advisor on energy to the Business Council of Canada, said the routes appear to have been selected for political advantage to go through areas more supportive of oil and gas, rather than economics.
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Any pipeline that goes through B.C. is likely to face opposition from Premier David Eby and would require the lifting of the federal ban on northern oil tankers, something the B.C. government and several First Nations oppose.
A week after the documents were reported, B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix expressed frustration about communications involving the pipeline.
He said it was “pretty late in the process” for the B.C. government to learn of the proposals but also rejected the notion that the province was “caught off guard,” adding that any pipeline would face “significant fundamental challenges.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to arrive in Alberta on Wednesday evening.
He told reporters in Kuujjuaq, Que., on Tuesday that he and Smith have been in “close contact” and that Alberta’s efforts to submit a proposal around Canada Day are “tracking well.”
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But the fate of the proposal rests largely with the CEOs of the five biggest oilsands companies, whose production would be needed to fill the new pipeline and who are partners in the Pathways project, said Dennis McConaghy, a retired pipeline executive and author.
Those companies would be hard pressed to sign on as shippers on a new oilsands pipeline so long as they’re subject to higher climate costs in the form of the industrial carbon tax and required to spend tens of billions of dollars on Pathways, he said.
“The private sector can finance this if it is confident that they will be allowed to go forward on these expansions with rational climate policy,” McConaghy said.
“Producers are not going to climb on without, I think at a minimum, a significant about-face by Mark Carney, which I don’t think will happen — at least not in the short run.”
The pipeline application comes as Albertans prepare to vote on 10 referendum questions in October, including one on whether to remain in Canada or hold another referendum on separation at a later date.
“My guess is those CEOs will be very reluctant to make long-term commitments until the referendum affirms the status quo,” McConaghy said. And if the pipeline talks break down with Ottawa, it will only serve to fan the separatist sentiment.
“This becomes a very clearcut example of, ‘Does Ottawa work for Alberta?'”
The Alberta government is aiming for the pipeline being designated a project of national interest by October and getting shovels in the ground as early as September 2027.
Startup would be in the mid-2030s.
— with files from Global News’ Amy Judd and The Canadian Press.
Anyways I’m going to celebrate Canada day by molesting some children down at my local Church.. Because that’s what us whiteboys do y’all. Long live the settlers!!
Hey JV. I know you are but what am I? (Rinse and repeat)
The toxic, tar sands oil has to be stopped at the BC/AB border. Remember the Kalamazoo.
Hey JV – looks who is talking about being trigger, hiding behind screen and leaving posts all day. Count your posts one day! Haha
Hey You read my post. So Look in mirror. BAhhaha
So where is the “ hate and disinformation”? everything I post has been reported here or in BC Govt sites.
Which BTW you are still too afraid to address and reply to and just throw out insults.
Typical keyboard coward!
Just like your leaders hiding behind NDA and closed door meetings all time.
Only an absolute moron would believe that these “5 CEOs” give a you know what about Alberta or Canada. Think it’s going to create long term jobs? Think again. These billionaire oil companies are in the process of completely automating oil production with AI. The oil companies and the government are the only ones that are going to see any money from this project. The only jobs that this project will provide will only be temporary.
That’s the thing about Conservatives in Canada. They’re gullible and easily taken advantage of by politicians like Premier Smith who works directly with these big oil CEOs
Hahahaha I live sitting around on the internet 24/7 spewing hate and disinformation towards First Nations people and immigrants in the Global BC comment section. I’m proud to be a little Nazl bltch hiding behind a computer screen. I also love leaving long triggered replies to myself that nobody actually reads but me hahahaha
Haha! Love it. You lose again JV. You won’t and actually can’t address the facts in the polls and what happened parliament without admitting the truth. ( I will keep posting it too) That’s what’s you are afraid of. The truth about the majority of us as per the recent polls.
Your only response is to fabricate false accusations about someone you don’t have any real knowledge about. That’s both ignorant and cowardly .
Question? What’s racist about Angus Reid Polls? Or Eby wanting to amend or suspend DRIPA?
The only person you are discrediting is yourself. Pat yourself on the back.
You doing my job for me. 😝
I heard the route they are taking goes thru Danhelle’s left ear and then takes a massive dip and comes out about the location of her right ear. This route seems pretty good as it should satisfy all parties involved as per interview comments by our infrastructure minister. Way to go!! Lets get it done!!!
Nazism is exactly what I practice. Denying it us all part of my mental illness. One minute I’m going on and on about how our government should be a far right/white nationalist regime and then the next minute I’m claiming that I’m not a Nazl. Even better I spew racist disinformation about FN people and then the next minute I claim I’m not a racist. I wish I could get the help that I need but unfortunately for me that’s not happening anytime soon. In the meantime I’ll continue my hate filled disinformation posts on the internet with my multiple personalities 24/7
Don’t get too excited – the liberals will find a way to kill this project!
Haha here we go again. I see our FN spokesperson and representative JV( aka below Doug B2) is back with his usual lack of originality by posting his delusional rants, slander and comments about other commenters he knows nothing about. Such a child! 🤭
We are all still waiting for him to properly reply to the fact that in late winter 83 of 93 BC MLAs would have voted to repeal, suspend, amend (gut) DRIPA. JV any comment? JV??
And respond to the Angus Reid poll.
Where 53% if BC’e have said DRIPA has gone “ to far”, only 30% think DRIPA is needed for T&R and 98% of small businesses think DRIPA and stand T&R has been bad for business development. Any Comment JV? JV?
But JV wont respond, he makes up lies about people he doesn’t know, and tries to make up nonsense that the tide hasn’t changed and the sun isn’t rising tomorrow, even though a “”human rights lawyer”” Eby is trying to suspend DRIPA.
So if there is one person having delusional mental issues it’s JV.
You are all welcome to fact check any of the above.
For the record I am against the Alberta separatist, my uncles fought in the war against Nazism, which I am very proud of, I am family man, early retiree 45 and was self made due jobs since I was 13 while putting myself thru school.
From what I can gleen JV a works as a green keeper or caddy at the Musqueam golf course weekends only.
Oops sorry I meant to post as Bob B again but I forgot which name I was using. I use so many different names I forget which one I’m using sometimes. It’s tough being a delusional whlte nationalist/Nazl spreading hate and disinformation on the internet these days. Especially with all of the mental issues I struggle with on a daily basis
Oops sorry I meant to post as Bob B again but I forgot which name I was using. I use so many different names I forget which one I’m using sometimes. It’s tough being a delusional white nationalist/Nazl spreading hate and disinformation on the internet these days. Especially with all of the mental issues I struggle with on a daily basis
Glory days are over Alberta. Glory days are over!
She’s basically putting in an application in crayon and on a bar napkin….
BC needs this. Canada meeds this.
The whole country needs to use whatever resources we have build industry, jobs and futures for our kids.We cannot let a handful of demanding people’s or ultraistic dreams get in the way of day to day living and some kind prosperity for the vast majority of us.
Even a liberal like Carney has figured that out.
It will never happen
The activists are already gearing up and Eby will.always pander to them becase its all he has to offer
All you people are saying me mine I my, demanding your rights to push through a pipeline that will affect these people in ways that won’t affect you or your province but will have an affect on THEIR rights and province! Where will all the new production come from, you are not even using all the capacity in the pipline Canada already built for you? You want more money to flow into your Alberta coffers maybe raise the royality fee to something more reasonable and instead make the companies who abanded their orphan wells clean them up themselves Just how fast your coffer would grow!
Anyone who’s dumb enough to support this pipeline and the destruction of our local environment is dumb enough to vote for OneBC!
So way past time for Carnival Carney to stop up to the plate he built. tell BC that coastal waterways are Federal jurisdiction, and Canada is going to ignore BC’s coastal tanker ban.
And stand up to the small group of natives that are trying to ransom our pipeline. – if they have not signed a treaty, they should have no treaty rights. If they have, it clearly would say they have no rights to even slow down industry.
Hope the route avoids any native reserves and they get nothing for all this whining.
Good luck getting past Dickweed Eby and his FN overlords .The Stewards of Government Handouts might take a bribe but Eby resides in a delusional Liberal utopia fantasy.
Canada needs to stop importing oil we could have easily and more sustainably refined ourselves.
And, I do not care that a group of native inhabitants call us greedy because we migrated here, and opened up the country so even more could enjoy it.
How is thinking your little incohesive tribes are entitled to one of the largest countries in the world not immensely more greedy?
Uh-huh. Whatever you say. All of this is becoming a political bunch of bull. Have you spoken with the tribes yet? These hereditary heretics here? Boy they got to be pretty rich with all the handouts to shut em up by now yet they just dont go away! THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND THE PIPELINES ARE NEEDED!!
EBBY DOES NOT GET THE FINAL SAY FOR BCers or CANADA!! S IS THIS STILL A DEMOCRACY??
Carney said, “We must fight for our rights.” Ok. I’m fighting for my right to use oil as my energy of choice. I’m fighting for my rights to have cheap energy and basics! I’m fighting for DEMOCRACY! F*CK YOUR F*SCISM!