{"id":820831,"date":"2026-07-23T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:50:08","slug":"alberta-saskatchewan-make-compelling-case-for-supplying-u-s-with-oil-hoekstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820831\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta, Saskatchewan make compelling case for supplying U.S. with oil: Hoekstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 The U.S. ambassador to Canada says Alberta and Saskatchewan could make the \u201cmost compelling\u201d case to meet the oil needs of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hoekstra says the U.S. needs to find three to four million more barrels of oil per day over the next decade and that Canada is one of the best places to get it.<\/p>\n<p>He says members of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s cabinet were eager to sign a deal last year for more Canadian oil but that the president wanted negotiations to continue because the U.S. has other options.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoekstra made the comment in Edmonton at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region\u2019s annual summit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a92026 The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 The U.S. ambassador to Canada says Alberta and Saskatchewan could make the \u201cmost compelling\u201d case to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-820831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820831","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=820831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}