Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she is expecting the proposal for a pipeline linking Alberta to B.C. to arrive in the coming weeks and is optimistic it will be at the top of Canada’s nation-building agenda.
The House of Commons recently passed Bill C-5, which would fast-track the regulatory process on major infrastructure projects in the national interest. The bill is expected to go before the Senate for approval this week.
A pipeline to northwest B.C. would be “the most credible and the most economic of all of the pipeline proposals the private sector would consider,” Smith said in an interview with Bloomberg, adding that Prime Minister Mark Carney is “going to have his national projects list developing very soon” and “we want to be one of the first ones on it.”…