Political Analyst Lori Williams on how Carney\u2019s messaging of \u2018Canada is better together than apart\u2019 resonated with Albertans at the Calgary Stampede. <\/p>\n
CALGARY \u2014 The Alberta government, Ottawa and five major oilsands producers have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance the multibillion-dollar Pathways carbon capture and storage project.<\/p>\n
The Pathways project is a condition for a new West Coast oilsands pipeline moving ahead, and would serve to offset some of the carbon emissions that infrastructure would enable.<\/p>\n
The governments have agreed to pursue regulatory and fiscal policies that would spur oilsands production growth, which in turn would ensure the pipeline from Alberta to a tanker port in southern British Columbia can be filled.<\/p>\n
The Pathways agreement was announced Monday, but signed on July 2 — the same day Alberta filed its pipeline proposal to the federal major projects office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest nation-building projects in Canada\u2019s history have succeeded through partnership. This agreement shows what can be achieved when governments and industry work together to grow our economy, strengthen our energy security and unlock new opportunities for people across Canada,\u201d Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The Pathways-pipeline quid pro quo was part of a sweeping accord Ottawa and Alberta signed in November on a wide array of energy matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last eight months, we have been steadily delivering on each commitment in the Canada-Alberta MOU, working with Alberta and the energy industry to build major energy infrastructure, reduce emissions, create jobs and prosperity, and secure energy sovereignty,\u201d said Tim Hodgson, the federal energy and natural resources minister.<\/p>\n
The federal government has committed to extending investment tax credits for various carbon capture equipment to 2035. Alberta says it will finalize its own incentive program for carbon capture.<\/p>\n
The memorandum of understanding says the Pathways Project would proceed in stages, with infrastructure in service by Jan. 1, 2032, and the project completed three years later.<\/p>\n
The members of the consortium behind the Pathways alliance are Canadian Natural Resources, Imperial Oil, Suncor, Cenovus Energy and ConocoPhillips.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe we\u2019ve achieved a framework that is positive for the oilsands industry and provides a step forward to help enable production growth and to advance the Pathways Project,\u201d said Kendall Dilling, president of the Oil Sands Alliance.<\/p>\n
The alliance said that the Pathways Project will have the capacity to transport and store about six million tonnes per year of captured carbon dioxide by the mid-2030s.<\/p>\n
The project involves a pipeline network that would carry CO2 captured from various oilsands site in northern Alberta to an underground storage hub near Cold Lake, Alta.<\/p>\n
This story was first published by The Canadian Press on July 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political Analyst Lori Williams on how Carney\u2019s messaging of \u2018Canada is better together than apart\u2019 resonated with Albertans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[45,49,48,47,14236,20739,14237],"class_list":["post-799558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-national","tag-oilgas","tag-ottawa","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799558","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=799558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}