28-05-2025
Varcoe: Throne speech confirms 'energy superpower' goal, but what major projects will be fast-tracked by Ottawa?
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'The government of Canada has to be really clear what the objective is. If it's leverage and optionality and the maximization of value — and what is the lowest cost and quickest way to do that — I'd say a shorter distance pipeline is the way to think about it,' Kevin Birn, chief analyst of Canadian oil markets for S&P Global Commodity Insights, said Tuesday.
'If they're talking about energy security for the rest of the country, there might be different considerations . . . What's the clarity of the objective? What's No. 1 here?'