Trump has called for the revival of Keystone XL Pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to the United States. After years of Ottawa blocking Alberta s energy, the U.S. may be stepping in to finish the job. The real question now is, did Alberta go around Ottawa and negotiate directly with Donald Trump and the United State to get a pipeline Canada refuses to approve? And if so, how is Canada s liberal government going to react to this?
00:00:15.880Any pipelines are good pipelines, we just need more delivery.
00:00:18.420TC Energy's controversial project dates back to 2008 and was to carry crude from Hardesty, Alberta to Nebraska,
00:00:24.560but it was rejected by U.S. President Barack Obama, then revived in Donald Trump's first term and cancelled again in 2021 under the Joe Biden administration.
00:00:33.800But Trump revoked that order this year.
00:00:39.620Donald Trump just joined forces with Alberta, and if this deal goes through the Keystone XL Pipeline,
00:00:47.200yes, that pipeline Biden cancelled back in 2021, is back on the table.
00:00:52.300After years of Ottawa blocking Alberta's energy, the United States may be stepping in to finish the job.
00:01:01.580The real question now is, did Alberta just go around Ottawa and negotiate directly with Donald Trump and the United States to get a pipeline Canada refuses to approve?
00:01:12.080And if so, how is Canada's liberal government going to react to this?
00:01:38.000As President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Keystone XL Pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada, say Alberta, to the United States,
00:01:46.740Trump took to his online platform, Truth Social, to urge the company building the pipeline to return to America.
00:01:52.620Quote, the Trump administration is very different, easy approvals, almost immediate start.
00:02:00.240If not them, perhaps another pipeline company.
00:02:03.120We won the Keystone XL Pipeline built, he added.
00:02:06.660The pipeline first proposed in 2008 has been controversial from the start.
00:02:10.820It would carry crude oil from oil sands in Alberta to Nebraska in the Midwestern U.S., where it would connect to existing pipelines that run to the Gulf of America and the Mississippi River.
00:02:22.540It is supposed by environmental groups and Native American tribes, a years-long battle between the oil industry and environmentalists trickled into politics and U.S. and Canada courts.
00:02:36.080The U.S. President Barack Obama rejected the project in 2015 due to environmental concerns before Trump revived it during his first term in office.
00:02:44.180Then, in one of his first actions as U.S. President in 2021, Joe Biden revoked Trump's permit for the pipeline, stating that his construction was not consistent with his administration's economic and climate goals.
00:03:00.940Here's another article about the pipeline announcement.
00:03:03.740Southpaw confirms open season for new pipeline to the U.S. using legacy Keystone XL permits.
00:03:11.520Seeking binding commitment for 450,000 barrels per day of long-term firm transportation service from Alberta to multiple U.S. delivery points.
00:03:22.380Interesting capacity on a cross-border pipeline linking Alberta's hardesty oil terminal to U.S. oil markets in Oklahoma along the Gulf Coast, a project that is dubbed in the Prairie Connector.
00:03:35.960The company said Friday it has commenced an open season industry parlance for inviting potential customers to reserve capacity on a proposed project using existing infrastructure and Canadian federal permits that are believed to have been originally issued for the canceled Keystone XL project.
00:03:57.760And you got to remember, the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, has indicated multiple times that she's ready to move forward with whatever is needed when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:04:08.160She wants to send as much crude from Alberta to the United States as possible, increasing the integration between Alberta and the United States during a time where the rest of Canada is looking at the United States as if it were an enemy.
00:04:23.140The timing for this announcement is very interesting, especially considering the declarations from the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, just a couple of weeks ago in regards to Alberta, saying that Albertans are independent-minded people and that they would make natural allies, natural partners to the United States.
00:04:41.340And how Canada continues to block Alberta's resources and how the Trump administration is ready to invite Alberta to build pipelines south to the United States, West Coast and Keystone XL.
00:04:53.620Well, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources, but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific.
00:05:02.060I think we should let them come down into the U.S.
00:05:33.580Treasury Secretary from a few weeks ago mentioning how Albertans are independent minded people.
00:05:39.340In the clip right above, you can see long lines of people waiting to sign the independence petition.
00:05:44.400And also the secretary indicated how Alberta would make a natural partner to the United States and how they would allow pipelines to just go to the U.S.
00:05:53.700Years after Keystone XL was canceled in 2021 over environmental and indigenous concerns,
00:06:01.600Bridger Pipeline Expansion LLC has submitted a project proposal to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality
00:06:08.700for a 645-mile pipeline that would start near the U.S.-Canada border in Phillips County and make its way down into Wyoming.
00:06:18.040Keystone XL originally faced criticism over potential impacts to rivers, wetlands, wildlife habitats, and climate concerns
00:06:26.980associated with transporting oil sands crude.
00:06:29.940According to the project overview submitted to Montana DEQ,
00:06:34.040the Bridger Expansion Pipeline would transport about 550,000 barrels of crude per day,