Not everyone is opposed to a North Coast pipeline<\/p>\n
One of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s key promises during the 2025 federal election campaign was to lift the tanker ban, arguing it was an issue of national security in the face of economic threats from the U.S.<\/p>\n
Poilievre is set to speak around 1:30 p.m. MT. CBC News will livestream his remarks at the top of this page.<\/p>\n
In 2025, a Conservative MP, Ellis Ross, was elected in Skeena-Bulkley Valley for the first time in the history of the riding, which spans the North Coast, Haida Gwaii and northwest inland B.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That, along with the boon of other major projects proposed for the northwest, could signal a changing tide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are five marquee projects being platformed by the province and Ottawa in the region, including Ksi Lisims LNG, LNG Canada Phase 2, Prince Rupert Gas Transmission, the Red Chris Mine expansion and the North Coast Transmission Line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth told CBC News he looks forward to seeing what opportunities and benefits a pipeline could bring to the area, whether that means jobs or additional projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Most Canadians are very much in favour of us getting more value out of our resources and being able to ship them elsewhere,” he said ahead of today;s announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There’s obviously a lot of consultation that has to go on for whatever route they choose, but if it looks like something is starting to move, I’m very much in favour of seeing that.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kitimat is highly receptive to exploring future opportunities, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not everyone is opposed to a North Coast pipeline One of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s key promises during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-776200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776200","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=776200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}