No pipeline. Again.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will make an announcement Thursday in Prince Rupert, B.C. of five more “nation-building” projects his government will fast-track.

Once again, Alberta will be shut out.

Albertans, of course, want a pipeline. Carney even hinted we might get one during a sit-down interview at the Canadian Club in Toronto last Friday. “Don’t worry, we’re on the pipeline stuff … it’s going to happen.”

In his next breath, though, after thinking about what he had just promised, Carney added, “Well something’s going to happen.” Now we know that something won’t be Alberta’s pipeline.

Both the CBC and the Globe and Mail were given advanced copies of Carney’s list of Round Two projects. And like the first round he released in September, it not only doesn’t include a pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast, it doesn’t include any projects in Alberta at all.

To add insult to this oversight, the Ksi Lisims LNG pipeline that is supposed to be included in Thursday’s announcement will not take any natural gas from Alberta to an LNG terminal on Pearse Island north of Prince Rupert. The only gas will be from B.C.

Could it be that Alberta’s oil and gas are being deliberately targeted? There have been recent reports that the Liberals’ environmental caucus (made up mostly of the most radical “green” members of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and caucus) have been upset with Prime Minister Carney’s decision to delay the implementation of Ottawa’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate for at least a few years.

A move to landlock Alberta’s resources could be a bone thrown to the eco-caucus so they don’t create problems........

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