US EditionAlberta’s Latest Pipeline Push Dredges up Ghosts of Projects Past
Pipeline projects in Canada face setbacks from environmental opposition, Indigenous consultation issues, and market shifts, with experts highlighting a 2014-15 oil market structural change.
- On Oct. 26, 2025, Alberta announced plans to propose a West Coast bitumen pipeline to the federal Major Projects Office, underlining it as a Northern Gateway reboot with Alex Pourbaix, former TransCanada executive, on advisory panels.
- A key cause was a structural market shock in 2014-15 that limited barrels for projects, while entrenched environmental opposition and Federal Court of Appeal rulings over B.C. First Nations consultations blocked approvals.
- Enbridge's Northern Gateway application filed in 2010 sought to link oilsands to Asian markets but was later killed after legal and political battles, according to the source.
- The Major Projects Office promises to speed approvals, but past attempts to shorten regulation triggered legal challenges that delayed projects despite proponents saying it would boost the Canadian economy.
- McConaghy warned the government faces a dilemma reviving pipelines that might require reversing climate policy, while Leach argues market fundamentals outweigh regulatory hurdles.
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Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past (Canada)
Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals. "You can see the scars on my back," he quipped at a news conference earlier this month, twisting his body at the lect...
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Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past
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Perceptions of Pipeline Development in Canada
This week, we conducted a survey of Canadians to explore their attitudes toward pipeline development and energy policy. Download the report Some of the key highlights include... Half of Canadians (49%) support Alberta’s proposed new pipeline to export oil and gas beyond North America, while 16% oppose and21% neither support nor oppose. Support is strongest in Albe…
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