Years have gone through that the possibility of carrying a pipeline to carry oil from the west to eastern Canada was in the forefront and the center.
But the new comments issued by the Federal Energy Minister amid the threats of our customs tariffs have many: Can this happen in the end?
Trump threatened the customs tariff by 10 percent on the energy resources from Canada, along with a 25 percent tariff for all goods. His threat has leaders throughout industries and provinces, including energy and even Quebec – have long opposed a new oil pipeline – they are asking about how to mitigate the threat.
“Dependence of the United States to export oil is weakness,” Jonathan Wilkenson, Minister of Natural Resources and Energy, told reporters on Thursday.
The comments came a day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held an economic summit to discuss ways to diversify trade between provinces and remove internal barriers to support each other.
At that summit, heard of hot microphone leaders that Trump believed that Canada’s absorption is the easiest way to take advantage of its resources.
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Last month, Daniel Smith, Prime Minister of Alberta, said that she wants to see the resumption of talks regarding the previously proposed northern pipeline and Energy East as a way to help Alberta transfer her oil more easily to international markets and other places in Canada.
Smith repeated that this week’s call, and told Global News on Tuesday that she was looking to speak with her counterparts, in BC and Keubec in particular, about building more access to pipelines on both coasts.
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“I hope this is an invitation to wake up to West, to eastern Canada, that it depends 100 percent on oil from foreign sources and gas coming from foreign sources and we have come.” .
Prime Minister Saskatchewan Scott Mo said he hoped that this will happen.
He said: “We will need a commitment, at this stage of the federal government, that they are already Sibnion and that they will support not only the pipeline to create energy security for all Canadians who have Canadian products.”
“But it also supports energy infrastructure and all transportation infrastructure so that a province like Saskashuan is able to reliably reach our ports, reasonable.”
Prime Minister in Quebec Francois Legott also suggested that Trump’s tariff had changed the opposition of Quebis to a pipeline, saying that “social acceptance”, the government will be open to these projects, including the pipeline.
But while there is a renewed talk about the idea, doing this actually can be problems as in the past.
The Gateway North North, which would connect Alberta to the Pacific Ocean, was initially approved by the federal government in 2014, but was canceled two years later in legal challenge.
A year after the cancellation of this pipeline, Transcanada made the same with its plans for the proposed oriental power pipeline, which would have connected Alberta to New Bronzweek, partly due to the opposition of Quebec.
Andrew Leich, economist at the University of Alberta, told Global News that the West oil and gas producers have transported the gears away from the approach of Canada.
“If you are a source outside West Canada, what you want is the shortest way to a high -value market,” he said in an interview with Global News. “And at the present time, the high -value market is Asia, and if you are building a pipeline in Edmonton to St. John, this is in no way is the way to the market.”
Leach was added as there was a lot of support for projects like Energy East when proposed, exporters still want to find the shortest possible path.
Pipelines and operators seem unlikely to support the idea as well.
“With the completed joining at South Bow, we are no longer in the field of oil pipelines and the Energy East project has been completed in 2017,” TCARENGERGY spokesman said in a statement.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline, which was bought by the federal government in 2018 and extends from Alberta to Bornbi, British Columbia, is the only oil pipeline that can serve other markets.
Jason Palasch, the company’s vice president, said on Thursday that he was looking into expansion projects, but he was not looking to add a third line.
Last month, Professor of McLABAL News Reviving The Northern Gateway, and said that she was not major pipeline companies that submit proposals to revive but politicians.
Enbridge, the Alberta -based pipeline company behind Northern Gateway, told Global News two weeks ago that it has no plans to revive it, rather than focusing on its pipeline on the ground.
According to Finance Minister Dominic Lieplank on Friday, there was no submission of a project to bring oil to the eastern coast.
“It is a virtual discussion,” he said. “If some large Canadian pipeline companies that have many private investments are already putting them in front of the organizer, regional and federal governments will evaluate the project.”
Almost all crude oil exports in Canada – about four million barrels per day – go to the United States
–With files from Canadian press, Global News’ David Akin, Bryan Mullan, Karen Bartko and Morgan Black
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