Canada Adds West Coast Oil Pipeline to National Interest Projects List
The Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 160, Number 41, published on October 10, 2026, carried an Order in Council formally adding the West Coast Oil Pipeline project to Schedule 1 of the Building Canada Act as a project of national interest.
The order, P.C. 2026-925, was made on October 1 on the recommendation of Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King's Privy Council for Canada. According to the Gazette, the project is an interprovincial pipeline capable of transporting one million barrels per day of Canadian crude oil from Bruderheim, Alberta, approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, to a deepwater port near Delta, British Columbia, approximately 35 kilometres south of Vancouver, for transfer to vessels and shipping to global markets.
The project description published in the Gazette puts the pipeline at approximately 1,250 kilometres in length, with approximately 11 pump stations, a receipt tank terminal at Bruderheim and delivery tanks and a deepwater port at the coast. The project is being advanced by Trans Mountain Corporation, the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission and Pembina Pipeline Corporation.
The Gazette records that the Government of Alberta submitted its proposal to the Major Projects Office on July 2, 2026, and that a notice of more than 30 days was published in the Gazette from August 1 advising that the project might be listed. The Building Canada Act was enacted by Parliament on June 26, 2025, to provide a simplified, timely process to secure federal regulatory authorization for projects determined to be of vital interest to Canada.
Source: Canada Gazette
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