Overview
- Following Friday’s meeting in Ottawa, Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney said negotiations advanced toward finalizing an MOU to create a single project-approval process.
- Smith said urgency has grown as industry grows impatient and a 300,000-signature separation petition remains on hold under a court order.
- The core sticking point is how quickly Alberta must raise its industrial carbon price to $130 a tonne, with carbon-capture requirements still under discussion.
- Ottawa opened consultations to shift assessments of interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines to the Canada Energy Regulator from the Impact Assessment Agency.
- Alberta plans to file a West Coast pipeline proposal with the federal Major Projects Office in June after reviewing five potential routes with major oil companies as advisers.