Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁“A former Alberta energy minister says a proposed bitumen pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast is unlikely to materialize if Canada relies on the private sector alone to build it.
‘I would say it's not just diminishing, the likelihood of a private sector proponent … I would almost say it is zero at this point,’ Sonya Savage said on CBC's West of Centre podcast.”
Clearly the private sector is well aware building a pipeline is a money losing venture. TMX demonstrated this. And yet Danielle Smith says “Alberta intends to submit its application for a pipeline to the Major Projects Office by June — and she asked that it gets approved by this fall.”
Is this another ploy to stoke up separatist fervour should the approval not happen according to her timeline?
Chance of privately developed pipeline almost ‘zero’ if no government backstop: former Alberta energy minister | CBC News
Premier Danielle Smith demanded Ottawa fast-track approvals of export line in wake of U.S. activity in Venezuela, as one of her former ministers warned that any private project would now need public support.
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