Carney signs major energy agreement with Alberta, paving the way for oil pipeline through B.C.
The MOU links pipeline support to suspending some federal climate rules while boosting Alberta's industrial carbon price from $95 to $130 per tonne, with a methane cut target to 2035.
- On Thursday, the federal government and Alberta agreed to pursue a West Coast bitumen pipeline, making Ottawa's support conditional on stronger carbon pricing and industry-funded carbon capture.
- Pathways Alliance's proposed $16.5-billion project faces a formal federal review request after First Nations demanded an Impact Assessment for the 400-kilometre CO2 pipeline to Cold Lake storage hub.
- Cold Lake First Nations say they have been excluded from talks and feel 'railroaded', warning of CO2 leaks, groundwater contamination, and worsening water stress in the Lower Athabasca watershed.
- The Pembina Institute warns renegotiating federal climate policies will spur investment uncertainty as Alberta must strengthen industrial carbon pricing but suspend clean electricity rules and delay methane cuts.
- First Nations invoke a 1954 displacement by the Department of National Defence from Cold Lake Air Weapons Range and ongoing social harms, while the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment backs their call for a federal Impact Assessment.
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Canada drops climate rules in oil deal, looks to Asia to weather Trump tariffs
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an agreement with Alberta’s premier on Thursday that rolls back certain climate rules to spur investment in energy production, while encouraging construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast. Under the agreement, the federal government will scrap a planned emissions cap on the oil and gas sector and drop rules on clean electricity, in exchange for a commitment by Canada’s top oil-producing provin…
Pipeline deal could trigger race to the bottom on Canada's climate policy: advocates
A new pipeline agreement between Alberta and Ottawa could trigger a race to the bottom on Canada's climate policies, advocates said Thursday, as they warned the deal would invite other provinces to make copycat demands.
Carney, Smith sign pipeline deal, open door to changing B.C. tanker ban
CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement that commits them to working toward building an oil pipeline to the West Coast — and opens the door to changes to the coastal tanker ban.
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