PJ The Belt - May 07, 2026


Trump Just Revealed a HUGE Alberta-Wyoming MERGER as Major Permit Signed!


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A proposed pipeline that will transport Canadian crude into the U.S. has been rubber-stamped by President Donald Trump. It s big news for those impacted by the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2021, and it already has a fan in Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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00:00:00.000 Donald Trump has made it very, very clear that he thinks everybody is free riding on
00:00:04.680 the American military prowess.
00:00:06.620 So if we want to be able to continue to trade, we've got to make sure to do whatever we can
00:00:11.660 to demonstrate that we are the exception, and I think we'll be able to make that case.
00:00:15.840 This is a presidential permit authorizing the Bridger pipeline, sir.
00:00:19.920 This is a transporter pipeline, similar to the old Keystone XL pipeline, will significantly
00:00:24.680 expand our ability to move oil around North America, oil and gas around North America.
00:00:29.840 Would you characterize for Canadians who are watching tonight your view of how important that integration is and where you see the future of it going?
00:00:37.340 I think we share a lot of common values.
00:00:40.080 It's a wonderful thing to be able to have that cross-border communication.
00:00:44.900 Alberta and Wyoming have talked a lot about energy prospects that we can do together.
00:00:51.100 This is just one of those.
00:00:52.380 Alberta and the United States share a lot more in common than Alberta does with the rest of Canada.
00:00:58.740 I mean, literally, think about it. You have British Columbia, which is supposed to be part of the same country as Alberta, making it nearly impossible for Alberta to build a pipeline to the north.
00:01:12.000 You also have a president in Washington, D.C., who approved the project previously very quickly and views Alberta with a favorable eye, unlike the liberals in Ottawa.
00:01:21.940 Seems fairly easy to decide which partner to work with, don't you think?
00:01:25.480 A proposed pipeline that will transport Canadian crude into the U.S. has been rubber-stamped by U.S. President Donald Trump.
00:01:33.860 Trump signed an executive order Thursday authorizing the project.
00:01:37.740 It partners Canadian pipeline company Southbow with American counterpart Bridger Pipeline
00:01:42.560 and will transport oil from the U.S. border at Saskatchewan into Wyoming.
00:01:47.160 It's big news for those impacted by the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2021,
00:01:52.560 and it already has a fan in Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
00:01:56.560 I think it's a positive.
00:01:57.660 You know, in a world where we haven't had a lot of positives,
00:01:59.900 in particular with our relationship of recent with the United States of America.
00:02:04.680 Moe believes resource development is Saskatchewan's future
00:02:07.360 and this could signal more things to come.
00:02:09.640 I think this needs to be an all-of-the-above approach,
00:02:12.760 not only with the Bridger Pipeline approval,
00:02:15.860 Keystone XL or now known as the South Bowl project.
00:02:20.260 We need that to move forward as well.
00:02:22.560 Alberta and Wyoming have talked a lot about energy prospects that we can do together.
00:02:28.460 This is just one of those.
00:02:30.100 Yeah, I saw that you've taken some meetings with various ministers from the Alberta government over the last number of months.
00:02:35.780 Could you characterize for Canadians who are watching tonight your view of how important that integration is and where you see the future of it going?
00:02:44.340 I think we share a lot of common values.
00:02:46.980 We both understand how important it is that we use energy correctly, that we continue to improve the technology, and that we, in fact, can power the nation of this continent.
00:03:01.800 And being able to work together on these issues is something that we've done historically, and I think it just makes us both move forward much more aggressively.
00:03:10.660 If you look at the benefits that can derive from the kind of relationship that we have and the ability to be able to share those energy resources, you understand that this country has really no problem being able to power a world.
00:03:24.680 Here's why the timing of this matters so much. Right now, globally, everything is shifting.
00:03:32.640 You've got countries in Europe actively trying to move away from the Middle East when it comes to energy.
00:03:38.820 You've got demand going through the roof. And you got the United States stepping in and saying, we can supply it.
00:03:46.100 They're ramping up exports, they're fast tracking permits.
00:03:48.800 What used to take years is now being pushed through in months, even weeks sometimes.
00:03:53.580 So this isn't some slow-moving, maybe someday type of situation.
00:03:58.900 This is happening while the world is literally scrambling for stable energy.
00:04:03.640 And when that kind of demand shows up, Alberta becomes one of the most important pieces on the board.
00:04:09.840 Because it's not just one pipeline being talked about anymore.
00:04:13.380 You've got multiple projects, different routes, hundreds of thousands, even millions of barrels per day being planned out.
00:04:23.580 At a certain point, you stop looking at this like a single deal and you start realizing this is an entire network being built.
00:04:31.640 I've seen proposals for as much as 2.5 million barrels a day that would come from Canada, go to the United States.
00:04:37.600 And most of that permitting would be under the authority of the Energy Dominance Council.
00:04:42.100 But I think what it comes down to is we need reliable, affordable energy for people.
00:04:46.680 Because when people are hurting, that's when they put pressure on their politicians.
00:04:49.680 and even the most left-wing ideological politician will realize boy i gotta i gotta moderate this and
00:04:55.560 come back to center and that's what we're seeing in canada okay you just heard that 2.5 million
00:05:01.800 barrels a day that's a massive amount of oil i mean seriously think about that for a second
00:05:07.840 that is a game-changing amount of energy being moved from alberta straight into the united states
00:05:14.040 And if something like that actually gets built, the levels of integration between Alberta and the U.S. would be greater than we've ever seen before.
00:05:22.540 To the point where you kind of have to ask, what exactly is Alberta still relying on Ottawa for at that point?
00:05:29.220 Because this isn't just a small side project.
00:05:31.960 This is Alberta plugging directly into the largest energy market on the planet more than ever before.
00:05:38.540 I used to live and work in Alberta.
00:05:40.240 I covered Keystone right from the start, the proposal.
00:05:42.580 I remember all the roadblocks, particularly south of the border in your country,
00:05:48.060 like by states and courts and all that kind of stuff.
00:05:50.940 How much opposition do you expect this will face?
00:05:53.760 And how successful do you think the pipeline will be in actually getting built?
00:05:57.300 I think the pipeline will have a pretty clear path.
00:06:01.540 Wyoming, the pipeline being constructed in Wyoming is going down an existing corridor.
00:06:08.260 we have landowners that are already pretty familiar with what that activity looks like.
00:06:15.460 So there may be some voices that are raised in opposition, but by and large,
00:06:20.920 I think this is not out of the ordinary for the experience that folks in Wyoming had.
00:06:26.740 I know the Keystone Pipeline came down through a reservation, had to cross the Missouri River,
00:06:32.680 had to go through Nebraska.
00:06:34.180 There was some concern about what might happen to the aquifers there and so on.
00:06:39.280 We just have more experience, I think, both in constructing and maintaining those pipelines.
00:06:45.800 We always worry about what a spill might look like, but we've built some pretty good protocols to make sure that we respond quickly and correctly and do the cleanup.
00:06:55.280 So I don't see that there's going to be any problem.
00:06:57.760 I think it really makes a lot of sense to come through Wyoming.
00:07:01.520 For the longest time, the Liberal government here in Canada has made it its mission, basically, to eradicate oil and gas in the name of implementing some sort of imaginary green utopia in a country, of course, where temperatures are unbearably cold for six months out of every year.
00:07:20.600 As a result of this, the Canadian government has caused enormous damage to the economies of both Alberta and Saskatchewan for well over a decade, affecting millions of livelihoods and people who call these two provinces home.
00:07:36.340 But the West has had enough, and they're taking matters into their own hands.
00:07:40.120 All right, President Trump signing a presidential permit to revive portions of the Keystone Pipeline, creating thousands of jobs after the project was scrapped by the Biden administration in 2021.
00:07:52.960 The Bridger Pipeline expansion will be able to carry more than half a million barrels of oil a day from Canada through the United States, boosting America's energy dominance and lower gas prices.
00:08:10.120 We'll be right back.