Pipelines could contribute to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision of transforming Canada into an “energy superpower,” but only if there is a “consensus” for their development, he says.
Exporting more oil and gas is “an element” of Carney’s plan to make the country an energy power house, but it is not “the element” that will make it happen, he said during a May 13 interview with CTV News.
Carney said becoming a superpower requires a mixture of both alternative and conventional energies, and that that oil and gas alone is not enough.
“That in and of itself, doesn’t make us an energy superpower,” he said. “We have all the components in nuclear, in hydro, potentially in carbon capture and storage, which is going to be one of the determinants of competitiveness and productivity in a number of sectors.”…