Canada and Alberta have signed a sweeping memorandum of understanding on energy. It opens the door to national-interest pipelines, the world’s largest carbon capture project, interprovincial grid expansion, nuclear readiness and a regulatory reset to accelerate approvals.

It reads like a blueprint for becoming an energy superpower — and it is, or at least it could be.

But paper doesn’t build pipelines. Barrels don’t move because leadership shook hands. And homes don’t get heated because of a signature.

So, now what?

Now, Canada must turn ambition into action — not in Ottawa or Edmonton boardrooms, but in fabrication yards, on drilling rigs and pressure pumpers, in grid control rooms, engineering trailers, machine shops and welding booths across the country.

This MOU makes possible projects of unprecedented scale — a million-barrel-per-day pipeline to Asian markets with Indigenous co-ownership, the full build-out of the Pathways carbon capture utilization and storage system, massive transmission interties across Western Canada and a nuclear readiness plan by 2027.

These are not just talking........

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