Roberts Bank Superport

This is what we have on the screen right now.

This is from Bruderheim, Alberta, near Edmonton, down to Roberts Bank, paralleling most, but not all, of the Trans Mountain expansion right-of-way.

Some new portions of right-of-way are outlined on this map.

going to a tanker port, which is currently not capable of VLCCs, but I heard you talk on Bray about the distinction of that, so maybe if you can get into that.

Plus, there's also this other problem of labor.

If everybody is doing everything at the same time, which we expect it to, whether it's LNG to this rail that we want to build to Edmonton, you know, Roberts Bank, Pathways.

All of these things are happening at the same time.

They're all supposed to use Canadian steel and mostly Canadian labor, like that really drives up the labor costs.

that the government of Canada is officially listing the West Coast Pipeline, now known as Pacific Link, as a project of national interest.

The designation coming just three months after the Alberta government submitted the proposal for a project that would bring up to one million barrels a day from the Alberta oil sands to the West Coast port of Vancouver at Roberts Bank, following the Trans Mountain Pipeline's path.

A pipeline to the West Coast is part of our mission to transform our economy, to double our non-U.S. exports over the next decade, to create tens, in fact hundreds of thousands of good jobs.

The Prime Minister says 130 Indigenous groups along the pipeline's path have already been consulted with more to come.

No one has an interest in building a pipeline into Prince Rupert right now.

The focus will be on the Vancouver terminal, probably into Roberts Bank.

And so you're looking at least a decade, I would say, until that oil tanker is going to matter again.

And why everyone wanted to go through Prince Rupert or thereabouts was because you can hold a larger tanker, what we call a very large crude carrier, a VLCC tanker.

The southern route is meant to protect the northern coast and sensitive ecosystems.

Port expansion at Roberts Bank is paired with marine protections, including measures for killer whales.

Whether that package satisfies climate advocates is a separate political fight.

For the energy superpower narrative, the point is that Ottawa is trying to sell both volume and lower intensity at the same time.

And he rebranded it in the process Pacific Link.

That's a million barrels a day from near Bruderheim, Alberta to Roberts Bank near Delta, about 1,200 kilometres, 1,250 kilometres.

And Trans Mountain Corporation will take the lead on this next step in the process.

Canada and Alberta own equal shares and Pembina Pipeline holds 10% through construction and First Nations are being offered at least 10% backed by loan guarantees.

They learned a lot from all of that.

Now they're looking at how can we fit a million barrel a day pipeline on that right of way? Where do we have to deviate, uh, to accommodate either geography or the communities that are, that are in the way? Um, and what do we have to do at the port? I think, uh, Roberts Bank is gonna be one of the biggest challenges, of course.

Bringing in two million barrel tankers called VLCCs is gonna be different.

Uh, it hasn't happened before and the port has to accommodate that.