Posted on 12/15/2025 11:22:36 PM PST by Jonty30
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s keeping in mind that there’s more than one way to get Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast.
Smith said in a year-end interview with National Post that, while her “first preference” would be to build a new West Coast pipeline through northern British Columbia, she’s willing to look across the border if progress stalls.
One possible route to the Pacific Ocean could be through the northwestern U.S. states of Montana, Idaho and either Washington or Oregon.
“Anytime you can get to the West Coast, it opens up markets to get to Asia,” said Smith.
Smith has said that there’s enough demand for Alberta oil in the booming Indo-Pacific region to sustain a new million-barrel-per-day pipeline.
Her comments come just weeks after Saskatchewan-based potash giant Nutrien announced plans to build a $1-billion export terminal at Washington State’s Port of Longview, spurning suitors in B.C.
The Nutrien announcement has been criticized by both B.C. Premier David Eby and federal Transport Minister Steve MacKinnon as a betrayal of the national interest.
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It also lays down the foundation for separation. The province goes where it has the greatest economic interest.
Why ship that oil to the Indo-Pacific region? Isn’t there enough demand in the USA to take 1 million bpd?
That’s what she said. She can build a pipeline to the US and send a million barrels/day and it wouldn’t make it to port. It would be used up in that region alone.
Originally it was going to head south towards Texas through the Keystone (?) pipeline that Biden cancelled around 2021, all those pipes are still sitting around somewhere like Montana or North Dakota, the infrastructure was already there within Alberta and Saskatchewan. It was going to be refined in southeast Texas. Nebraska seemed to be the state most opposed because of potential oil spill damage but it was also a sitting duck for climate alarmism.
Apparently Canadian oil warms the earth at an astonishing rate more than any other nation’s oil. It’s a mystery understood only by the very top globalists.
I thought Canadia already built a pipeline to their west coast
and were exporting oil to China and elsewhere from there.
Oregon/Washington. Just look at the map. There’s a border with a river there. The oil would have to go through red states Montana and Idaho. Then there’s the river. Put the pipeline there just like the one Russia had in the Baltic Sea. Then ask the 2 blue states: What ya gonna do about it?
We need another one. This one is at near capacity of 890,000 barrels/day
Although I don’t know the intricacies of US Constitution, if the pipeline originally starts at the US border. However, I do know that no state can stop another state from pushing a pipeline through a state.
OK. And if the pipeline is run IN the river BETWEEN the 2 states?
As I said, I do not not the intricacies. That is to be sorted out, but pipelines do run across waterways all across the US and it’s not a problem.
“...Why ship that oil to the Indo-Pacific region?
Isn’t there enough demand in the USA to take 1 million bpd?...”
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Because we disallowed the pipeline???
Canadadia built their own, without the USA.
One of the first acts of Bidon was to cancel Keystone, despite the ETA completion of Keystone was going to be August of 2021.
re: And if the pipeline is run IN the river BETWEEN the 2 states?
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There are 14 dams on the mainstem of the Columbia River.
Interesting.
Its a bit of cover. Ostensibly shipping oil to Asia via the US would get more support from the stupid ‘Elbows Up’ crowd, while in reality most would not make it to Asia.
I would tell Alberta to WATCH OUT if she wants to build a pipeline through the US as Victoria Nuland may just BLOW IT UP if she decides to make them our next ‘enemy’.
After a couple of defections the Liberals are one vote away from a ruling majority. When it happens they will move to strangle Alberta. It is going to get ugly.
Yes it will. Canada has been laying siege against Alberta and its oil to get Alberta to be amenable to sharing the revenue with Canada, as the federal liberals tried to do when they imposed the National Energy Policy on Alberta, costing it $67 billion.
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