A ‘quarter to a third’ of Smith’s caucus against pipeline deal with Ottawa, says former MLA

Please Advise! Did BC Just Get Shafted by a Pipeline?

Well and truly, says Dr. Steve. Along with the planet.

Peter Menzies: Pipeline Proposal a Positive Step, but Considerable Challenges Lie Ahead

Commentary The good news for Canada is that it is now more possible than at any time in the past 10 years that an oil pipeline may be constructed from Alberta to the West Coast. The proposal put forward July 2 by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and endorsed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in many ways represents a victory for the art of the possible. The 1,200-kilometre pipeline is to run from Bruderheim, Alta., to the Roberts Bank Terminal in Delt…

A 'quarter to a third' of Smith's caucus against pipeline deal with Ottawa, says former MLA

Former UCP MLA Drew Barnes says that Premier Danielle Smith's caucus is far from united on the West Coast pipeline deal struck with Ottawa.

Smith gets a pipeline – but it’s far from what advocates had hoped for

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is finally getting a pipeline. But, after making concession after concession, this doesn’t feel like the pipeline win that Albertans and Canadians who support energy development have been longing for. First of all, Smith agreed to jack up industrial carbon taxes in pursuit of a deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney, something she likely had to do to get a deal with the federal Liberals, but something that will in tu…

A ‘quarter to a third’ of Smith’s caucus against pipeline deal with Ottawa, says former MLA

Smith appeared alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney last Thursday in Calgary to announce a plan that would see a new pipeline built from Bruderheim, Alta., northeast of Edmonton, largely alongside the existing TMX pipeline, terminating at a port in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. Smith had previously expressed hopes for a route to the northwest coast, closer to Asian importers, but Carney announced earlier in the day with B.C.’s premier that he was leavi…