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Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean argues that getting Canadian oil and gas to the Pacific isn’t just about revenue—it’s about displacing dirty fuels and stabilizing global markets
Minister Brian Jean and Stewart Muir
By Resource Works
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Brian Jean, Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals, lawyer and former MP, joins Stewart Muir to talk about pipelines and how Alberta is “a world leader in energy because we have the capacity, but we also have the capability.”
And he’s not talking about only Alberta.
“Geopolitically, Alberta and BC and Saskatchewan could actually change the fate of the world just based on what we do with our energy. . . .”
Changing the global storyline
With global instability rising, Jean argues that Canadian exports could stabilize the market.
“We’re looking at Russia and China and other nations right now, and there’s a lot of turmoil. Well, we put three million barrels a day of crude into the Pacific, all of a sudden it changes the storyline for everybody.
“We put a lot of natural gas, LNG, into the Pacific, it changes the story for everybody. And that doesn’t even mean we get into Africa where it’s really needed, or Europe. . . . We can change the world to be a better place.”
Jean adds that some eight million people around the world burn dung and wood and other things for heat and energy, while “they could have (Canadian) natural gas for next to nothing right now, if we could just get our stuff together and make that happen.”
Brian Jean (right) with Stewart Muir
The pipeline proposal
The conversation turned to the question of the oil pipeline that Alberta proposes should run from Alberta to BC:
“What we have seen is a restriction of our ability to get resources to market, which obviously suffocates our own ability to grow, while the rest of the world is pouring these dirty . . . barrels of oil that have no respect for human rights or no respect for women. “Meanwhile our own people are suffering because we can’t get pipelines to tidewater. Right now, if we got a couple of million barrels to the Pacific, it would raise finances tremendously for the people of BC, especially on the North Coast.
“It would raise about five billion a year . . . for the people of Canada and the people of Alberta, and there would be significant jobs right across the country, including even in Ontario.”
Global demand
Jean was emphatic about the demand for Canadian products in Asia.
“I can promise you, China wants our oil. Korea wants our oil. Both of them are getting some right now, and Korea’s actually geared up their refineries to take our oil. A lot of countries right now are saying they’ve tried it, they like it. It’s a taste of a great product, and they want more of that product. But . . . we can’t do any of that until we get it to the tidewater.”
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