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GREEN: Canadians should understand this risky element of Carney’s pipeline deal with Alberta

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16.09.2026

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In November 2025, the Carney government and the Alberta government unveiled their “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU) that would create a pathway for Alberta to get a million-barrel-per-day oil pipeline built to carry future oilsands production to lucrative markets in Asia.

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That pipeline agreement came with many strings attached, including a requirement for the simultaneous “Construction and financing of the world’s largest carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project for the purpose of making Alberta oil among the lowest carbon intensity produced barrels of oil in the world.” Namely, the Pathways project, to be built by an alliance of Canada’s five largest oilsands companies. To put it mildly, Pathways is not well understood.

From a physical feasibility standpoint, Pathways looks like risky business. While capturing, liquifying and........

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