U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued several pipeline permits to facilitate the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products between the U.S. and Canada, including a permit for constructing new pipeline infrastructure.
Documents released by the White House include a permit allowing the Bakken Pipeline Company to “construct, connect, operate and maintain” pipeline facilities in Burke County, N.D., at the Canada-U.S. border.
The permit says Bakken Pipeline Company is a limited partnership and subsidiary of Enbridge, which operates multiple cross-border oil and gas pipeline networks in Canada and the U.S.
Other permits were issued to Enbridge for the maintenance and operation of existing pipelines at border locations in North Dakota and Michigan.
A spokesperson for Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson’s office told Global News in an email that the permits “pertain to a previously announced private sector-led optimization and the operation of an existing pipeline.”
Global News has reached out to Enbridge for comment and more information.
A senior government official told Global News on background that the permits were not related to negotiations between the Liberal government and the Trump administration on a possible energy partnership that was being pursued alongside a renewed trade and security agreement.
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Those talks were suspended by Trump last fall, but trade talks have continued behind the scenes leading up to this summer’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
The government official also referred Global News to Enbridge’s announcement last November that it had approved a US$1.4-billion plan to send more oilsands crude south of the border despite trade tensions between Canada and the U.S.
The first phase of the company’s Mainline Optimization project will see 150,000 barrels per day of capacity added to its vast cross-Canada system, the backbone of the country’s oil transport infrastructure that taps into the U.S. Midwest.
The plan also adds 100,000 barrels per day of capacity to the Flanagan South system, enabling greater volumes to flow from Illinois to the U.S. Gulf Coast. That’s the site of the world’s largest refining complex where facilities are well equipped to process heavy oilsands crude.
Those capacity additions are expected to become available by 2027, Enbridge said at the time.
Enbridge has said a second Mainline Optimization phase could add another 250,000 barrels per day of capacity in 2028, making use of the existing Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs from North Dakota to southern Illinois.
At the time of the first phase’s approval, Enbridge said it was prioritizing expansion of existing pipeline capacity rather than building a new pipeline from scratch.
In early January 2025, ahead of Trump’s inauguration for his second presidential term, the Alberta government announced it was forming a working group with Enbridge to explore expanding pipeline capacity to the U.S.
Trump administration officials have recently spoken about the value Alberta’s energy resources could provide to the U.S., particularly if the province sought independence from the rest of Canada.
—with files from The Canadian Press and Reuters
Help Alberta develop!!
Can they build a LNG plant in southern Alberta. For them to ship through there ports? Every one wins in a growing market. Ask Elon Musk if he wants to own a gas plant? Put it on the exchange!!
hey try this. dont blame ya buddy time break up the country.
I hope Trump sends the CIA for Carney. Regarding the Maple files.
Need to sell it to someone and if our only client is the states, then so be it. Hate the player, not the game.
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good old trump – he does not like our Canadian oil, with all he has underground lol in his mind, now will accept the good stuff from Canada – and on his first presidency I admired the guy, now fighting with the Pope, he has nothing else to do. This term if he fell down, I would step over him and say, “to bad” I’m in my 90’s and he is a joke
That’s what leadership looks like.
Thank you President Trump.
So Donald Trump and myself have both had 16 year old virgins. So what?
This attack on Iran was just to deflect from the Epstein Files.
Gee, didn’t dementia donnie say the US doesn’t need anything from Canada?
We shouldn’t not sell our oil to the vermin.
And Cold Lake Alberta just had a massive Imperial pipeline leak. Good timing.
Carney is senile and giving away everything Canadian fought for. Including send billions and millions to other countries. Why has he help us in our issues always outside if Canada first
Trump is awesome and is the only person who can save cda and cdns from the carney comminuist govt… carney is destroying cda for his and china’s control
Let’s let our economy collapse and keep the mountain of debt piling higher and higher with Carnage the Dictator.
Don’t allow it . Stay away from Americans .
Poilievre would have given his dotard our oil for free.
sounds good. don’t like this admin but hey we need some kinda sales. right on
[ always look at the bright side of life ] = Trump does not plan to suck Canada dry _____ Soon we shall be getting Free O I L = From VENEZUELA ? !
Yippie Kai Yay!
He’s got no title to get foods from Canada
I hate Canada and Canadians, and want us to fail economically.
Good. Pump it and sell it! Let’s get some money back into our economy!
So much for Trump and his ‘we do not need Canadian oil”.
So much for Smith standing behind Canada and holding Trump to account, and forcing him to remove his tariffs.
The ‘Queen’ only thinks of herself.
I thought Donnie didn’t need Canada