Ottawa and British Columbia have reached an infrastructure agreement that maintains the northern oil tanker ban while outlining how the federal government could proceed with a new oil pipeline through the province.
Alberta has advocated for the tanker ban to be lifted so that an oil pipeline to B.C.’s North Coast could ship up to one million barrels per day of oil to Asian markets. Prime Minister Mark Carney had also previously suggested that the ban, which was implemented back in 2019, could be overturned to export oil from the new pipeline.
Speaking to reporters on July 2, B.C. Premier David Eby said he was “proud to say” that talks with the federal government had preserved the tanker ban, “protecting British Columbia’s pristine northern coast and the $2 billion-plus economy that relies on it.”…