Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pitched a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast, just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal with B.C. to make it possible.
Smith and Carney stood together in Calgary to announce that Alberta has formally submitted a proposed route to Carney’s major projects office.
The line would follow closely along a route already traversed by the Trans Mountain pipeline.
It would run from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to the southern B.C. coast, delivering more than one million barrels per day to tankers and then to Asian markets.
Smith says the Alberta government is partnering with the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation and Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline on what it calls the West Coast oil pipeline.
Earlier in the day, Carney stood beside B.C. Premier David Eby and promised Ottawa would uphold a tanker ban on B.C.’s northern coast while Eby said his province wouldn’t fight a potential pipeline proposal in court.
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