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It’s now officially been a year that the Carney government has been musing about maybe, possibly building an oil export pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.  

“Will I support building a pipeline? Yes,” was what Prime Minister Mark Carney told CTV on May 13, 2025. He also said that he’d expressed such thoughts “repeatedly.”

Although Carney retains extraordinary powers to greenlight such a project at any time, this month he announced only that he intends to approve construction by September 2027. According to a subsequent report by CIBC World Markets, the “best case scenario” is that the project might be moving oil by 2034.

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And a West Coast pipeline has already been on the drawing board for more than 20 years. As early as 2006,........

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