{"id":185079,"date":"2025-10-02T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185079\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:35:14","slug":"not-a-real-project-b-c-premier-says-of-albertas-plan-for-oil-pipeline-to-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185079\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not a real project,\u2019 B.C. premier says of Alberta\u2019s plan for oil pipeline to the coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta government said Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11460059\/alberta-oil-pipeline-to-bc-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it plans to apply to build a new oil pipeline<\/a> to northwestern British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Premier <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/danielle-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danielle Smith<\/a> says her government will submit the application to the federal government next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta will act as the proponent, Smith explained, with the support and technical advice from three crude pipeline companies: Enbridge, South Bow and Trans Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Premier David Eby has long opposed the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem that we have is Smith continues to advance a project that is taxpayer-funded, has no private sector proponent, is not a real project and is incredibly alarming to British Columbians, especially First Nations along the coast,\u201d Eby said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said she called him on Monday to give him a heads up about the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think coastal provinces have a special obligation to be generous and make sure we\u2019re creating access to ports for all of our products,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not publicly opposed any project that has been proposed by any of premieral counterparts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Oil pipeline on feds\u2019 major projects list is part of ongoing discussions: Smith'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oilalberta.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:18<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOil pipeline on feds\u2019 major projects list is part of ongoing discussions: Smith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11459527\/this-was-a-tragedy-rcmp-say-ground-search-for-6-year-old-alberta-boy-has-been-called-off\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759412114_815_missing-child-canada.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018This was a tragedy\u2019: RCMP say ground search for 6-year-old Alberta boy has been called off\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11459263\/donald-trump-canada-51st-state-not-funny\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759412114_69_Trump-51st-state.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump\u2019s 51st state jibe \u2018not funny anymore,\u2019 MPs say\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>B.C. First Nations are also pushing back on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Slett, president of Coastal First Nations \u2013 Great Bear Initiative and elected Chief of the Heiltsuk Nation, said in a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon that, \u201cAs the Rights and Title holders of B.C.\u2019s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii, we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline and oil tankers project in our coastal waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slett said they participated in years of consultation with the National Energy Board\u2019s Joint Review Panel for the failed Northern Gateway project, and the response from our regions was a definitive no.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPremier Smith\u2019s continued talk of\u00a0oil pipelines and tankers, and the risk of a catastrophic oil spill in B.C.\u2019s coastal waters, is not nation-building,\u201d Slett added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, it risks the goodwill and support of First Nations for more realistic and economically valuable nation-building projects in B.C. and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Alberta government said Wednesday it plans to apply to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53105,2662,295,43,44,92848,714,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-185079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-danielle-smith","tag-david-eby","tag-environment","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}