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Canada: Carney Fast-Tracks West Coast Oil Pipeline

Canada: Carney Fast-Tracks PacificWest LinkCoast Oil Pipeline to B.C. Coast

Canada: Carney Fast-Tracks West Coast Oil Pipeline
Above: Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Oct. 1. Image credit: Mark Carney via X

The Spin


Putting Pacific Link on the national interest list is exactly the kind of decisive move a country sitting on world-class energy reserves should be making. Opening a direct route to Asia -Pacific markets ends the discount on Alberta crude and turns oil into real paycheques, hospital funding and school budgets. EnergyWhen a country with world-class energy reserves puts Pacific Link on the national interest list, energy sovereignty stops being a slogan and startsbecomes being a pipeline.

Slapping a shiny new name on a pipeline and calling it a national priority doesn't move a single shovel of dirt. What's actually been announced is another year of consultations, a tangle of agreements that have to line up perfectly and zero explanation of what happens when they don't. Announcing a deadline isn't the same as building anything.

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