Carney’s energy plan: all talk, with no pipeline

Carney’s energy plan: all talk, with no pipeline

There is an old saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s case, all his fresh rhetoric and new offices have done little to break the chokehold on our energy sector or free us from reliance on American buyers and refineries, particularly here in British Columbia.

On Feb. 12, Mark Carney stood before Liberal supporters in Kelowna and declared, “Something that my government will do is use all of the powers of the federal government, including the emergency powers of the federal government, to accelerate the major projects that we need.” Many in Alberta and B.C. heard a promise of new pipelines to markets beyond the United States, which still takes roughly 97 percent of our crude exports. Fi