Carney discusses 'partnerships' with oil and gas executives in Calgary

Bill Graveland · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 4:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down with lipid and state executives successful Calgary Sunday to sermon partnerships and to get their input for his plans to marque Canada an vigor superpower.

Carney, successful his archetypal sojourn to Calgary since being sworn successful arsenic premier minister, held a closed doorway roundtable with much than 2 twelve members of the vigor sector.

Attendees included Tourmaline Oil CEO Michael Rose, Pathways Alliance President Kendall Dilling, ATCO CEO Nancy Southern, Imperial Oil President John Whelan and Jon McKenzie, president of Cenovus Energy.

Reporters were lone allowed to perceive a fewer comments from the premier curate earlier being asked to permission the country astatine the Harry Hays building.

"Thank you for convening connected a Sunday greeting and besides for what you've each been doing to assistance physique our country...build our economy, physique a future," Carney said.

"I'd similar to convey a fig of you who wrote straight to maine a period oregon truthful agone and I felt it would beryllium champion to get unneurotic and sermon it successful overmuch much item than done an speech of letters fixed the value of the issues."

Thirty-eight CEOs of Canadian vigor companies signed a missive congratulating Carney connected his April 28 predetermination triumph and pitching argumentation measures they accidental would assistance the premier curate marque bully connected his committedness to physique the fastest-growing system successful the G7.

That would see scrapping the national emissions spread connected lipid and state producers and repealing concern c pricing to assistance bolster the industry.

The CEOs privation an overhaul of the Impact Assessment Act, which sets retired the process for assessing large projects, and of the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which bans lipid tankers carrying much than 12,500 metric tons of crude from stopping on parts of British Columbia's coastline.

Carney campaigned connected expediting reviews of large vigor infrastructure projects. He promised earlier the predetermination to determination guardant with a "one project, 1 review" attack by recognizing assessments conducted by the provinces and territories.

The national authorities unveiled its projected emissions headdress regulations precocious past year. They would compel upstream lipid and state operations to trim emissions to 35 per cent beneath wherever they were successful 2019 by sometime betwixt 2030 and 2032.

"Partnership is simply a taxable for our treatment this morning," Carney said, accompanied by Energy Minister Tim Hodgson, Dominic LeBlanc, the curate liable for Canada and U.S. commercialized and Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski.

"It's a captious clip for our country. The world's surely much divided and unsafe and the imperative of making Canada an vigor superpower successful each respects has ne'er been greater. We volition bash everything we tin astatine the national authorities level to enactment those partnerships."

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was asked connected her play vigor amusement if she was acrophobic that the national throne code didn't see a notation of pipelines.

"He whitethorn not person said the words 'oil and gas' and helium whitethorn not person said the connection 'pipeline,' but accepted vigor means lipid and gas, and the lone mode to get it to marketplace efficiently is done pipelines," said Smith, who says she's hoping for a one-on-one with Carney astatine Monday's First Ministers league successful Saskatoon.

Smith besides praised Carney for being much consenting to prosecute with the premiers connected issues of nationalist value than his predecessor Justin Trudeau. She was coy erstwhile asked astir consequences if Carney doesn't deliver, saying she prefers to beryllium optimistic.

Carney besides took a infinitesimal connected Sunday to convey the Department of National Defence, the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and volunteers progressive successful warring extended wildfires and co-ordinating large-scale evacuations.

"The bully quality is those are proceeding good astatine this signifier but of people it's not implicit until it's implicit and we're astatine the commencement of the wood occurrence play crossed the country," helium said. "So we'll enactment committed to doing everything that we tin with partners."