Saskatchewan premier pitches 'port-to-port corridor' for energy and other exports

Lauren Krugel · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 6:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is pitching the thought of a "port-to-port corridor" that would link vigor and different goods to Canada's bluish Pacific and Arctic coasts.

Moe made his remarks Monday alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith astatine an lawsuit focused connected some provinces' ambitions to treble lipid and state production.

"I cognize we are not going to beryllium wholly reliant connected the U.S for that marketplace," Moe said. "We are going to person entree to the world."

Moe, who leads the right-of-centre Saskatchewan Party government, said helium likes what he's been proceeding retired of the Liberal national authorities astir making Canada an "energy superpower" and the strongest system successful the G7.

He admits that means going against his governmental stripe to immoderate degree.

"Far beryllium it for maine to beryllium accused of being seat of the Liberal booster nine the past decennary oregon so, but determination are immoderate comments from this premier curate that I deliberation we tin genuinely get behind," Moe told the lawsuit hosted by vigor services manufacture advocacy radical Enserva.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's authorities has introduced authorities that would fast-track definite infrastructure projects deemed successful the "national interest," arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump upends what until precocious has been a reliable cross-border trading relationship.

Carney has heard pitches from the premiers astir what projects they deliberation should beryllium chosen, but has not said which person made the cut.

Alberta premier hopes to spot bitumen pipeline, carbon-capture project

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants a bitumen pipeline to beryllium the "anchor tenant" of a corridor to the larboard of Prince Rupert, B.C., enabling exports to Asia supra and beyond what the operating Trans Mountain pipeline tin vessel from the Vancouver area.

She has said that task should beryllium built successful tandem with different 1 she'd similar to spot considered successful the nationalist interest: the Pathways connection to seizure and sequester c emissions from Alberta's biggest oilsands producers.

Smith and Moe besides voiced enactment for a pipeline to the larboard of Churchill, Man., which would alteration exports to Europe via Hudson Bay. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has been keen connected the idea, too.

"One happening the premier curate seems to privation is simply a task and a proponent," Smith said.

"So we are moving to get a proponent oregon a consortium to enactment a task connected the table, and past we're going to trial retired this two-year timeline that helium has."

Smith said Carney has asked blimpish premiers to scope retired to radical they cognize successful the national Conservative Party to assistance the Liberals' task support measure walk successful the number Parliament.

Despite being encouraged by the caller code successful Ottawa, some Smith and Moe said they privation the repeal of galore national biology policies they accidental person stymied assets investment.

"Policies bash substance and we request a important argumentation displacement and we request it precise quickly," Moe said.

The lawsuit coincided with the G7 acme successful Kananaskis, Alta., wherever leaders from the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy, arsenic good arsenic the European Union, are meeting.

The confab of satellite leaders puts Alberta connected the representation astatine a clip erstwhile the world's attack to vigor information is being "recalibrated," Smith said.

"I cognize that, particularly with the satellite turmoil, the vigor information needs of our planetary partners has ne'er been much important. And I deliberation this truly does thrust a absorption astir however Alberta tin beryllium the solution."