{"id":399697,"date":"2025-11-23T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:02:24","slug":"carney-says-constructive-talks-ongoing-with-alberta-about-oil-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399697\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney says \u2018constructive\u2019 talks ongoing with Alberta about oil pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> says discussions between the federal and Alberta governments on a potential oil pipeline to British Columbia\u2019s northern coast are ongoing, addressing speculation this week that a framework agreement was close.<\/p>\n

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In comments made during his trip to the G20 summit in South Africa, Carney spoke about the talks for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the discussion around oil pipelines, for example, and this is the language of Premier Smith of a grand bargain, is absolutely related to other aspects of policy in Alberta, if it were a pipeline from Alberta, as well as investment in carbon capture and storage, so that these are effectively carbonized, would decarbonize barrels,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n

Speculation of an oil pipeline from Alberta has been ongoing for weeks,<\/a> despite one not being announced in both the first and second list of major projects the government is submitting for fast-track approval.<\/p>\n

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The Alberta government said in October it planned to apply to build the pipeline and would submit the application to Ottawa next spring.<\/p>\n

When Carney announced his second projects list last week, Smith said she was on board with the projects but added negotiations with Ottawa about such a pipeline were ongoing.<\/p>\n

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The prime minister, when asked at the time if he was having discussions about a separate \u201cgrand bargain\u201d with Alberta, called it a \u201cmemorandum of understanding\u201d and said that discussions were going well.<\/p>\n

He echoed those comments Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose discussions are ongoing. They have been constructive,\u201d Carney said. \u201cThere is a prospect of an agreement, it\u2019s not finalized so, in my experience in these things, when things aren\u2019t final it\u2019s better not to overly speculate where they\u2019re going from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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