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(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Mark Carney said people in British Columbia should see “substantial economic and financial benefits” from a proposed new oil pipeline to the province’s coast, which BC Premier David Eby opposes.
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Last Friday, the neighboring province of Alberta signed a deal with Carney on energy rules, helping pave the way for a pipeline it is proposing to carry 1 million barrels of crude to the west coast for shipment to Asian markets. It faces environmental and Indigenous resistance in BC.
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In an address to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Carney said it would only be built under three conditions: benefits for BC, the building of a massive carbon capture project and consultation with Indigenous people.
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Carney planned to meet with Eby later on Wednesday. One item on the agenda is a national harmonized levy on carbon, Carney said. Last week’s deal with Alberta included a carbon price benchmark that is lower than the current federal minimum one, a disparity Eby had criticized.
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Eby has slammed the Canada-Alberta deal as rewarding “bad behavior,” pointing to the threat of separatism from the oil-rich province that has been given an understanding ear by Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith.
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“This country cannot work if separatists, separatist premiers, others, get all the attention of the federal government,” Eby told reporters on Tuesday.
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Asked by the Board of Trade’s CEO Bridgitte Anderson how he will navigate opposition, Carney said the federal government needs to show up and listen to concerns, but also: “If things get stalled here, we’re going to be spending more time elsewhere in the country, because we need to move forward.”
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