Canada: Carney Fast-Tracks West Coast Oil Pipeline

Is Pacific Link a decisive bet on energy sovereignty or just a shiny new name on another year of consultations?

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Canada: Carney Fast-Tracks West Coast Oil Pipeline

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Above: Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Oct. 1. Image credit: Mark Carney via X

The Spin

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. When a country with world-class energy reserves puts Pacific Link on the national interest list, energy sovereignty stops being a slogan and becomes a pipeline.

Mark Carney on X

Danielle Smith on X

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.

Bruce McGonigal on X