{"id":283466,"date":"2025-10-07T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283466\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:14:11","slug":"east-and-west-albertas-pipeline-ambitions-face-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283466\/","title":{"rendered":"East and West, Alberta\u2019s pipeline ambitions face pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushed back on opposition to a pipeline heading East at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal on Monday.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

British Columbia Premier David Eby<\/a> is escalating his attacks on Alberta\u2019s proposal for a new oil pipeline<\/a> to the West Coast, describing the project touted by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith<\/a> as fictional, non-existent and fantasy.<\/p>\n

Mr. Eby released a video on Monday on social media in which he warned that Alberta\u2019s plan to front a pipeline application to Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s new Major Projects Office will jeopardize billions of dollars in private-sector investments in B.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe non-existent Alberta pipeline project would put tens of billions of dollars in real B.C. projects and jobs at risk. On top of that, it threatens one of the world\u2019s most precious and intact ecosystems, our beautiful B.C. coast and Great Bear Rainforest,\u201d Mr. Eby said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ms. Smith was in Quebec on Monday, pushing back on opposition to a pipeline heading East.<\/p>\n

Last week, Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet said he would denounce any new pipeline from Alberta for \u201cdestroying the environment of the whole planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a visit to the Montreal Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Ms. Smith fired back at the sovereigntist politician. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise: He wants to destroy the country. I want to build the country,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m here to talk to the Montreal business community to find ways Quebec and Alberta can be stronger together. \u2026 He\u2019s a separatist, so it doesn\u2019t surprise me he wants to destroy the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Alberta Premier added that she was not currently working on an oil pipeline from her province to the East Coast, a controversial idea last scuttled with the cancelling of the Energy East pipeline in 2017. <\/p>\n

Opinion: Alberta gets oil pipeline politics bouncing again<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead, she said, she was focusing Alberta\u2019s eastern ambitions on Northern Ontario, after an agreement to build pipelines with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to figure out if we could get to Thunder Bay and then use the Great Lakes maximum tankers to get to a port in Quebec where they could then be loaded for overseas,\u201d said Ms. Smith. \u201cThat might be an interim step. I\u2019m just trying to see what the capacity of the Seaway might be.\u201d <\/p>\n

It is ultimately the federal government\u2019s responsibility to build pipelines across provincial lines, she argued, hours before meeting with Mr. Carney in Ottawa. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the Prime Minister\u2019s job to show some courage,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The B.C. Premier has dismissed Alberta\u2019s pipeline ambitions in the past, mostly because it does not have a private-sector proponent. However he largely tried to avoid a direct confrontation, leaving it to First Nations on the coast to fight the application.<\/p>\n

Mr. Eby said last week his primary concern is that Canada maintains the current moratorium on North Coast oil tanker traffic. Alberta wants the ban lifted to allow a new pipeline to reach Kitimat or Prince Rupert, but the B.C. Premier says that would undermine First Nations\u2019 support for projects that he wants developed.<\/p>\n

This summer, tankers laden with liquefied natural gas began shipping out of Kitimat, B.C.<\/a> There will be about 170 vessels a year transporting LNG to Asian markets. Meanwhile, the port of Prince Rupert is undergoing a major expansion. The federal tanker ban has been key to securing First Nations\u2019 support for those projects, Mr. Eby said.<\/p>\n

Alberta\u2019s pipeline proposal did receive support in the B.C. Legislature on Monday from opposition leader John Rustad, who called on the Eby government to stop creating obstacles for economic growth. \u201cThis government seems to think it can run on ideology and unicorn farts,\u201d said the BC Conservative Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushed back on opposition to a pipeline heading East…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-283466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}